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=='''25 JANUARYAPRIL'''==

|isbnauthor=1803816759Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Unravelling|author=Will GibsonA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45

|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

=='''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 a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely grandifficult, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company multitude of a magical beastways. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope He is to dare to enter what bullied because he most hates, with has '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=Itwrong shoes's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all he has the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about wrong shoes because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that shedad can's ill t work and hasndoesn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in have enough money for even the boot most basic of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly catthings like food, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But dad can't work because he's a bad magician's cat, so lost his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and job at the catflap they both use can chuck them outcollege, not into the regular back garden, but into was working a cash-in-hand job on a world of frightening adventure building site and whiffshad an accident. This time round it drops them Throw into a Viking landthat mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but heand Will'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 daylife seems bleak in every direction. He loses his jobAnd yet, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone still has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad lucktiny amount of hope. 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 Bennyat art, and will certainly take care clings to the moments of Benny's enemies, if joy when heis drawing, Bennythat feel like a light at the end of a long, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they aredark tunnel.|isbn=16625004911398527122

|author=Alexander McCall SmithOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Perfect Passion CompanyAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked Anuri spent her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning childhood on display to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already loveworld, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in matchher step-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and theremother Ophelia's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbourincreasingly popular presence on social media, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}=='''8 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye where she posted every step of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic JejeuneAnuri's close friend childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and former colleague, Danny Maikbasically, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, 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 regain her confidence 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 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 longAnuri is battling alcoholism, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, 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 islandOphelia's leader and Mira'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