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=='''3 MARCH'''==
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
{{Frontpage
|author=Marcus Sedgwick
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|isbn=1635866847
|title=Wrath
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|title=The Lavender Companion
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|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
 
|rating=4.5
 
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
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|genre=Lifestyle
|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...
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|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.
|isbn=1800900899
 
 
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=='''4 JULY'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529151600
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|author=Max Boucherat
|title=Give Unto Others
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|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills
|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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{{Frontpage
 
|isbn=B0949Q1DC1
 
|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)
 
|author=Tim Sullivan
 
|rating=5
 
|genre=Crime
 
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Asperger's Syndrome.  He can be rude, difficult and awkward with people, although it's never intentional.  It's just that he thinks differently and social niceties simply don't occur to him.  There's a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and it's that he has the best conviction rate with cases, ever.  His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviour.
 
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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
 
|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.
 
|isbn=1529501946
 
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{{Frontpage
 
|author=Lissa Evans
 
|title=Wished
 
 
|rating=4.5
 
|rating=4.5
 
|genre=Confident Readers
 
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When things contrive to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old woman, Miss Filey, for a week of half-term, they're not looking forward to itFor one thing, she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand of biscuitThey don't particularly take to Willard either, the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywhereBut things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candles, and manage to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come trueHow will things change for a second time when they realise that, having used up three of them, these should really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?
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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 lonesomeWhat 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 worldBut 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 spookyFor the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tamperingWhen 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=178845202X
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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=1472273915
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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 14:06, 5 June 2024

13 JUNE

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Review of

The Lavender Companion by Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

4.5star.jpg Lifestyle

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 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. Full Review

4 JULY

0008666482.jpg

Review of

The Last Life of Lori Mills by Max Boucherat

4.5star.jpg 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

1846976537.jpg

Review of

Beyond Summerland by Jenny Lecoat

4star.jpg 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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