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=='''1 MARCH'''==
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=='''4 JULY'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
{{Frontpage
|isbn=1635864070
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|author=Max Boucherat
|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1
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|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills
|author=Safiyyah Talley
 
|rating=4
 
|genre=Crafts
 
|summary=If you've ever started knitting a pair of socks, finished the first one and either got bored by the idea of doing the same thing all over again, or started on the second sock and lost the first before you finished it, this is the book for you. Where is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you to knit two socks in one, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? It's clever and well-thought-out.
 
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=='''3 MARCH'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
|author=Marcus Sedgwick
 
|title=Wrath
 
 
|rating=4.5
 
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
 
|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...
 
|isbn=1800900899
 
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{{Frontpage
 
|isbn=1529151600
 
|title=Give Unto Others
 
|author=Donna Leon
 
|rating=5
 
|genre=Crime
 
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed.  The ''pandemia'' stripped the city of its tourists for nearly two years and a lot of businesses have closed, most never to reopen.  There's now a cascade of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end to greed.  The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all the money which is coming their way?  Whilst he's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a child.  Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like Brunetti's advice.
 
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=='''15 MARCH'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
|isbn=0760373531
 
|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World
 
|author=Sue Flanders
 
|rating=5
 
|genre=Crafts
 
|summary=Just occasionally you encounter a book of knitting patterns which seems to meet your every need.  Right now, it's bitterly cold and we're in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and mittens.  They have to look stylish, keep me warm and be so cheerful that they make me feel better.  If that sounds like a lot to ask, have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and I don't think that there was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearing.  We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the history of knitting.  It's not essential but it's a nice extra.
 
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=='''7 APRIL'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
|author=Justyn Edwards
 
|title=The Great Fox Illusion
 
|rating=4
 
 
|genre=Confident Readers
 
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is a contest with a difference. No singing, no dancing, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks work, and who can attempt to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets to all of his tricks! Flick is determined to win, but not because she wants to own the tricks. She is interested in just ''one'' trick, the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able to bring her missing father home.
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|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=1529501946
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|isbn=0008666482
 
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=='''28 APRIL'''==
 
 
{{Frontpage
 
{{Frontpage
|author=Jennifer Saint
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|author=Jenny Lecoat
|title=Elektra
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|title=Beyond Summerland
 
|rating=4
 
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.
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|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=1913097854
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|isbn=1846976537
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=='''5 MAY'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
|author= Ann Sei Lin
 
|title= Rebel Skies
 
|rating= 5
 
|genre= Teens
 
|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…
 
|isbn=1406399590
 
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{{Frontpage
 
|author=Natalia Garcia Freire
 
|title=This World Does Not Belong To Us
 
|rating=5
 
|genre=Literary Fiction
 
|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight.   I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.
 
|isbn=0861541901
 
 
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Latest revision as of 16:45, 12 June 2024

4 JULY

 

Review of

The Last Life of Lori Mills by Max Boucherat

  Confident Readers

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? Full Review

 

Review of

Beyond Summerland by Jenny Lecoat

  General Fiction

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? Full Review

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