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=='''4 JANUARY25 APRIL'''==

|isbnauthor=0760381267Sylvie Cathrall|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-SantiagoA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''. I've 'gardened' in a vague, indefinite sort of way for more There are few greater joys than half a century. I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and I needed 'projects' rather than book which lives up to a general commitment to gardeningcompelling premise. ''Verdura'' with its promise And this is one of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answerthem. So, how did it stack up?|isbn= 0356522776

=='''31 JANUARY9 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=0811771741Tom Percival|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}=='''1 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her OwnWrong Shoes|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends 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 ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4

|summary=Eli Will's life is difficult, in a busy lad – by day an apprentice in multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wondrous library we start by visiting with himwrong shoes', and in the evening a helper at he has the dessert cafe wrong shoes because his gran owns dad can't work and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – doesn't have enough money for there is a generation missing in even the family. A few short years agomost basic of things like food, Eliand his dad can's parents were both t work because he lost to his job at the titular racecollege, was working a globecash-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the world fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in the company of a magical beastevery direction. This And yet, he still has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident tiny amount of hope. He is good at the eatery leads to a confession from granart, Eli knows his only hope is and clings to dare to enter what the moments of joy when he most hatesis drawing, with the sole aim the prize of magic that feel like a light at the end – the only thing to possibly save his granof a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=05713822311398527122

|author=Adam StowerOnyi Nwabineli|title=Murray and BunAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Confident Readers General Fiction|summary=Murray is supposed Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to be a humbleher step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, tidy where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and friendly cat, one who basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is able slowly trying to sleep and eat and eat and sleep regain her confidence andto get her life back, well, whatever takes his fancy next of suing her step-mother to take down the twocontent about her. But he's a bad magician's catAnuri is battling alcoholism, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bunfailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and the catflap they both use can chuck receiving money from them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffsfor doing so. This time round it drops them into a Viking landMost importantly, where a troll hunter she is expected – welldesperately worried about her little sister, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but hewho is the new focus of Ophelia's turned up online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and he'll have to do…her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=00085612490861546873