Changes

 =='''2 AUGUST25 APRIL'''==

|isbnauthor=0760379912Sylvie Cathrall|title=Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry BooksA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=CraftsScience Fiction|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new and usable when I was in my twenties. It would be a while before it became a pleasure rather There are few greater joys than a chore but I've never felt completely at home with quilting. I needed something book which lives up to a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knotscompelling premise. ''Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like a good place to startAnd this is one of them. So, how did it stack up?|isbn= 0356522776

|isbnauthor=0760379874Tom Percival|title=Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri HammettThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=I learned to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasnWill't a choices life is difficult, it was in a requirementmultitude of ways. Girls learned to knit He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and to embroider doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and boys did wood and metal his dad can't work. My knitting wa accompanied by because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a lot of criticism building site and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised that there was pleasure to be had in the skillan accident. Nearly seventy years later itThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's the only thing that keeps my hands at all supplelife seems bleak in every direction. The turning point was And yet, he still has a booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics and some patternstiny amount of hope. I've been looking for something simple He is good at art, and clings to recommend to people who'd the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like to master a light at the skillend of a long, dark tunnel. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=1788360737Onyi Nwabineli|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander AdamsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=24.5|genre= Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It her twenties and she is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to modifying take down the social environment in which he develops’’content about her. Therefore Anuri is battling alcoholism, all art must be politicalfailing to start her PhD, even implicitlyundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ Most importantly, she is adamant that art desperately worried about her little sister, who is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend the new focus of so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing)Ophelia's online empire. Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors Can she save her sister, and media elites hoping to create a more globalist perhaps herself and progressive regime. Or her relationship with her father at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.the same time?|isbn=0861546873

=='''4 AUGUST6 JUNE'''==

|author=Sarah Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd Taylor-Stanton|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Meet Alice EclairKit. A perfect eye and very careful hands have made her one Like most of Paris's best young cake makers and decoratorsthe people in his world, it seems, making sure her mother's establishment he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a classy affair. Not bad for a thirteen year team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old. Oh, magical mazes, and a perfect eye and a very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spy. Her first real mission will be race to chase a traitor across the country – working behind exit, perhaps bothering with the scenes on a posh sleeper train to treasure or the south of France, big bad and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handspoints they grant you along the way. But while nobody would have her down as a spyUnfortunately for Kit, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find the baddy?|isbn=1839940956}}{{Frontpage|author=Judith Eagle|title=The Accidental Stowaway|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Patch only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is a little girl who that one team has been passed from one relation to anotherretired, eaten, until it seems that there and a new trio of questors is nobody left for her to go toneeded. Her father died when she was Possibly very young, and her mother ran away. The family lawyer, after consultation with ‘someone’, arranges unfortunately indeed for her to go to a school in LiverpoolKit, but on her arrival there, she gets caught up in an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamship. During a chase with him (when she is both trying he has taken to get her rollerskate back and running away the goading from the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a lifeboatteam. What chance does this friendless, and before she knows itmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=05713631211839945184

|isbn=18469761461635866847|title=The Bone RoadLavender Companion|author=N E SolomonsJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=Heather BishopIt's strange, the former Olympic cyclist, flew to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnon. She even took their bikes so they could have a few days' break in the region. It was a little worrying things that he didnmake you 't seem exactly pleased to see her: she even wondered if he had a woman in the hotel room. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions and her memory were not up to the standard she would need to race again. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had or hadnimmediately't done and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situationsfeel that this is the book for you. She didn't entirely trust herself.}}=='''15 AUGUST'Before I started reading ''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM|title=The Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=ItLavender Companion's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not I visited the missile crisis thatauthor's at the front of his mind[https://www. He's been convicted of murderpinelavenderfarm. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queencom/ website] and there's Bench, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be wary picture of the McArthur brothers.}}=='''18 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author= Kit De Waal|title= Without Warning and Only Sometimes|rating= 4|genre= Autobiography|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad/ They may not mean to, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea a slice of parenthood and the bonds that bind family. This book is a memoir focussing chocolate cake on the author’s formative years as a teenager living in a lower class area of Birminghamhomepage. Her father is from St. Kitts in the Caribbean and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by and marrying a black man. This intersectionality plays a large role in the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her race, her class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with care, love, I don't eat cakes and the kind of anger only a child can express to their parents.|isbn=1472284836}}{{Frontpage|author=David Lagercrantz|title=Dark Music|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonderdesserts -mind at the heart of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot I wanted that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthcake viscerally. For one, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD. She(There's a Chilean recipe in the Stockholm policebook, put on a murder squad as she knows which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the prime suspect of old, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, book and just outside the stadium. Beppe, the suspect, I was drunkenly antagonistic told to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks make a mess of interrogationit. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, Notes in the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) margins are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is a shamblessanctioned. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke You get to fold down the most erratic, irregular kind corners of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it allpages. Until, You suspect that may smears of butter would not be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt.a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1529413192

=='''1 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''==

|author=Holly WebbMax Boucherat|title=The Story Last Life of GreenriverLori Mills

|summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differences, have a lot in common. Silken is a girl whose father is the Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge We meet Lori on the Greenriver. Unfortunately first evening she is also a kind of runt figure, and as a result is patronised, and given 's got the most tokenistic tasks when it comes house to fetching wood and shoring the dam up. She also stands out for the unique artistic ability herself – no neighbour to sing. Otters like Sedge singpop in, but he toobabysitter poorly, as the son of the lady of the holtmother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, has pressure on him to be a bit less feckless and more attentive to classher lonesome. HeWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, after all, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the most, and from dreaded events like a Dark Spring.|isbn=1510109625}}{{Frontpage|author=Anna Kemp and David Wyatt|title=Into Goblyn Wood|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last nine of her eleven years she has been stuck as a foundling in a horrid, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servant. She'd arrived at the place at the same time as Peteone main intention, and they're inseparably good friends now, until a chance for them both that is to log on to escapeVoxminer, and enter the outside world-building, does not go to plan. There had always been the idea of critter-collecting game that is a life idyllic hit in the nearby forests, Goblyn Wood, and Lori's world. But first Lori has a tribe of Wild Children, but none of tiny inkling that comes to passthis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, as Hazel and then she finds herself in the care of a professor at something even more spooky. For the Natural History Museum. But life with him is not anything like what server she might have expected it to be – and Hazel is determined to return to the Woods, restore her friendship with Pete – bestie and nobody else should be able to work out just what is going on in the forest, both the light and the shade, and the deathly dark...|isbn=1398503835}}=='''6 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Alison Hughes|title=Fly|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This is a very impressive read, as it does a lot enter shows signs of what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles withtampering. Its focus is courtesy of the first-person narration from Fly, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsy, a down-When malevolent eyes spark up on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleaner, a carer while at schoolphone screen, and a bundle of assumptions people lay on him. First they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mind, then they decide he's a maths savant her safe place in the game has been doctored – they even believe they can get away with calling him Flywell, which isn't his real name, but everybody just uses it.|isbn=1525305832}}=='''21 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=The Book of Hope |rating=5|genre=Politics and Society |summary= The done thing where is to read a book all the way through before you sit down girl to review it. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, I want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears. turn?|isbn=024147857X0008666482