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=='''23 FEBRUARY25 APRIL'''==

|author=Natasha FarrantSylvie Cathrall|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They There are part of few greater joys than a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as book which lives up to a familycompelling premise. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at And this is one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn downthem.|isbn=05713487850356522776

=='''2 MARCH9 MAY'''==

|author=Alice M RossTom Percival|title=The Nowhere ThiefWrong Shoes|rating=4.5

|summary=At last there Will's life is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run difficult, in a seaside townmultitude of ways. Elsbeth knows this He is bullied because she he has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out'the wrong shoes', because she he has the ability to leave this world, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and use an unworldly portal doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worldsthings like food, where and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the sea levels are rising dramatically college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the buildings fact that his mum and dad are generally empty of humans separated, and ripe for plunderWill's life seems bleak in every direction. With eviction imminentAnd yet, can Elsbeth nab anything he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, moments of joy when he is the answerdrawing, but that feel like a light at the fact end of a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…long, dark tunnel.|isbn=18399437691398527122

|isbnauthor=1529504775Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Elsie and Anuri spent her little brother David loved childhood on display to go the world, thanks to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of the park but David couldnAnuri't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and even just standing up was very difficult, basically, monetary gain. One day Elsie spotted a bus Now Anuri is in the toy shop window which would help David her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- and was happy mother to use take down the coins from content about her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. GraduallyAnuri is battling alcoholism, David learned failing to stand upstart her PhD, use the bus undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for support, and walk behind itdoing so. Many decades laterMost importantly, Elsie brought she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the busnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that perhaps herself and her grandchildren could play relationship with it.her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|author=Merryn Glover|title=The Hidden Fires|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= It is always about the book, not the writer, but there are times when the author's hinterland is also the background to the book and so it is necessary to understand that context, in order to appreciate the book. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentage, was born in Kathmandu, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan Kieran Larwood and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. I can think of no-one better a combination to give us a reJoe Todd-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Park. Merryn walks, not so much in the shadow of Shepherd, but in her spirit. I think the two would have gotten along famously.|isbn=1846975751}}=='''9 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0760378134Stanton|title=The First-Time GardenerDungeon Runners: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary. So, is it any good?}} =='''16 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author= Michael Grothaus|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleHero Trial

|genre= Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different thingsMeet Kit. And I'm willing to bet Like most of what we fear will never happenthe people in his world, or we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the question sport where a team of identity warrior, mage and acceptance. Of what it means healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to be humanthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Of what Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is real that one team has been retired, eaten, and what a new trio of questors is artificialneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and whether he has taken to the goading from the development token bully of technology is exciting or frighteninghis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=191458564X1839945184

=='''30 MARCH13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Julia Bartz1635866847|title=The Writing RetreatLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in It's strange, the world of publishing knows things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the namebook for you. Writers want to be her Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', agents want to represent herI visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Shecom/ website] and there's something a picture of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue slice of works chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhoodcake viscerally. Alex, (There's a writer-slash-editorrecipe in the book, is more than a little obsessed which I'm avoiding with Roza, some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and is stunned when, following I was told to make a series mess of unexpected events, she is invited 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 part of her month-long writersa problem. I ''loved'' retreatthis book already.|isbn=0861544439

|author=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixMax Boucherat|title=Different for BoysThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers herself – no neighbour to pop in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining babysitter poorly, mother at the leash only a singlework, just an avidly rule-sex school can formbreaking eleven year old, the talk in class and out often turns to sexon her lonesome. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationshipblanket fort, a secret she has one, for several months nowmain intention, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0857051741|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks is to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going log on to investigate Voxminer, the case of a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholic. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fiftyworld-yearbuilding, critter-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is collecting game that this is a dying manhit in Lori's wishworld. The situation changes when But first Lori has a post-mortem establishes tiny inkling that Henry Pekkarithis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, the dead alcoholic, was also murderedand then she finds something even more spooky. Is there a connection between For the two deaths?}}=='''13 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of themtampering. I would get When malevolent eyes spark up on board that shipher phone screen, I vowed. I would take my and her safe place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my namegame has been doctored – well, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta where is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance girl to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.turn?|isbn=14722921540008666482