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=='''11 JANUARY30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Alastair HumphreysB0CYV674G2|title=LocalSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Travel Crime|summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and cycled all over blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the worldpolice station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. And then written about it. For this book A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he walked and cycled very close 's been stabbed to home and then wrote about itdeath. As he says in DCI John Tanner is just back from his introductionhoneymoon, which coincided with the book is birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an attempt easy answer but the words 'perverse'to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'John Tanner' were made for each other. He' One of s sleep-deprived to the joys point of the book for me was that the biggest thing falling asleep at work but he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrongs determined to keep going - probably because he can', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices aheadt get any sleep at home.|isbn=1785633678
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=='''18 JANUARY4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=0571379559Stuart Douglas|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona WilliamsLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'The House of Broken BricksFloggit and Leggit'' is , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the story dead body of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house a woman on the riverbank, built edge of broken bricksa reservoir. Insubstantial The police seem happy to assign it as it might lookan accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, it's stood and he enlists the passage help of timea fellow actor, storms and floodsJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Her husbandThey travel across the country during their days off filming, Richarduncovering more possible murders and, struggles to grow his vegetablesseemingly, a link to complete death during the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient moneySecond World War. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, But is there really a link between the rainbow twins. deaths? Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that And will they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max manage to uncover who is out with his mother that she's his nanny.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''25 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|rating=3.5
|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=After a bout I was instantly intrigued by the premise of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living this novel – an organised crime syndicate in a time when the use north of sign language England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to the second in a school where she is taught to lip series I hadn't read, but physically restrained from signingdidn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. From And that wasn't a problem here, she ends . Vengeance swiftly brings you up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideasto speed, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionageI never felt lost.|isbn=10354016140861541561
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|author=Alex Bell Kieran Larwood and Tim McDonaghJoe Todd-Stanton|title=The Glorious Race of Magical BeastsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Eli Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is a busy lad an avid fan of Dungeon Running – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with himsport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and in race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the evening a helper at treasure or the dessert cafe his gran owns big bad and runsthe points they grant you along the way. Eli lives with his lovely granUnfortunately for Kit, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Elionly thing he's parents were both lost to seen of the titular latest raceon the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company new trio of a magical beastquestors is needed. This Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has made the race anathema taken to the pair – but when a bad incident at goading from the eatery leads to token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a confession from granteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, Eli knows his only and how could he possibly hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.succeed?|isbn=05713822311839945184
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|author=Adam StowerJenny Valentine|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}=='''8 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday Us in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}=='''29 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass Before and BladeAfter|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote Elk and partially forgotten islandMab are best friends, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before heror more than that even, their friendship is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off once in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sealifetime connection. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, They meet as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smugglerchildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's territory, Mira must be determined to stop contact details at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most deartime.|isbn=0008664730}}=='''14 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas But then chance brings them back together, and his friends they are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that inseparable. Something has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting filmshappened though, something terrible and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very differenttragic, and now they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinemamust work through their grief, and to their real lives?friendship, together.|isbn=18399427381471196585
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Max Boucherat
|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?
|isbn=0008666482
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|author=Jenny Lecoat
|title=Beyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?
|isbn=1846976537
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