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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 be a humblethe world, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able thanks to sleep and eat and eat and sleep andher step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, well, whatever takes his fancy next where she posted every step of the two. But heAnuri's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back gardenbasically, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffsmonetary gain. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, slowly trying to be honest, but he's turned up regain her confidence and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}=='''14 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinemaget her life back, a place that has suing her step-mother to take down the nickname of 'The Black Hole'content about her. All big movie fansAnuri is battling alcoholism, they're looking forward failing to lots of exciting filmsstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and manyreceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, many snacks! Howevershe is desperately worried about her little sister, as who is the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldnfocus of Ophelia't even imagines online empire. 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 cinemaCan she save her sister, and to their real livesperhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=18399427380861546873