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=='''18 JANUARY25 APRIL'''==
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|isbnauthor=0571379559Sylvie Cathrall|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona WilliamsA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.
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=='''25 JANUARY'''==
{{Frontpage
|isbn=1803816759
|title=The Unravelling
|author=Will Gibson
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=It's 2038 and Joe is There are few greater joys than a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for book which lives up to a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detectioncompelling premise. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki And this is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the caseof them. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?|isbn= 0356522776
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=='''31 JANUARY9 MAY'''==
{{Frontpage
|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
|genre=Confident Readers
|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 he has the evening a helper at 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 the world in the company of -hand job on a magical beastbuilding site and had an accident. This has made Throw into that mix the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows fact that his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hatesmum and dad are separated, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Itand Will's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprisinglife seems bleak in every direction. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as And yet, he still has a wanted drug smuggler for a decadetiny amount of hope. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wifeHe is good at art, saying that she's ill and hasn't long clings to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy the moments of joy when Hopkins he is abducteddrawing, stripped to his underwear and sent to that feel like a watery grave in light at the boot end of a stolen Ford Sierralong, dark tunnel. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?|isbn=1398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Adam StowerOnyi Nwabineli|title=Murray and BunAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers General Fiction|summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able Anuri spent her childhood on display 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, thanks 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 coffinher step-sized object to his home, and itmother Ophelia's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing isincreasingly popular presence on social media, 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 where she posted every step of BennyAnuri's enemies, if he, Benny, childhood for sponsorships 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 influencer deals and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old allybasically, Guy Truemanmonetary gain. Maik was involved Now Anuri is in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - her twenties and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came she is slowly trying 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.}}=='''15 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals regain her confidence and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footstepsget her life back, particularly when he considered the strain that being onsuing her step-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took mother to take down the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for himcontent about her. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anythingAnuri is battling alcoholism, he'd wanted failing to be a professional footballer.}}=='''29 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deepstart her PhD, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote undergoing therapy and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks secretly abusing people online and plundering the wrecksreceiving money from them for doing so. Mira Most importantly, like her mother before she is desperately worried about herlittle sister, who is one the new focus 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 MiraOphelia's fatheronline empire. Desperate to Can she save him from deathher sister, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and perhaps herself and her relationship with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}=='''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 cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as 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 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 cinema, and to their real livessame time?|isbn=18399427380861546873
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=='''13 JUNE'''==

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