Changes

=='''2 MARCH25 APRIL'''==

|author=Alice M RossSylvie Cathrall|title=The Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the ability to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything A Letter to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.}}{{Frontpage|author=Merryn Glover|title=The Hidden FiresLuminous Deep

|genre=TravelScience Fiction|summary= It is always about the book, not the writer, but there There are times when the author's hinterland is also the background to the few greater joys than a book and so it is necessary which lives up to understand that context, in order to appreciate the booka compelling premise. Merryn Glover And this is of Australian parentage, was born in Kathmandu, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. I can think of no-one better a combination to give us a re-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 famouslythem.|isbn=18469757510356522776

|isbnauthor=0008404976Tom Percival|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)|author=Jane CaseyWrong Shoes

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It was because Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Close. If youHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes're a regular reader of , he has the [[Jane Caseywrong shoes because his dad can's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] yout work and doesn'll t have read that sentence twice enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and wondered if ithis dad can's a massive spoiler t work because there is a delicious sexual chemistry between he lost his job at the two which seems verycollege, very realwas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. But (thereThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's always a 'but'life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, isn't there?) Josh he still has a partner tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he dotes on her sonis drawing, even if that feel like a light at the relationship with Melissa can be end of a little rocky. As for Maevelong, she's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertaindark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

=='''9 MARCH23 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=0760378134Onyi Nwabineli|title=The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela FarleyAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyGeneral Fiction|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be Anuri spent her childhood on display 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 world, thanks to start, this is the book you need. Ither step-mother Ophelia's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own foodincreasingly popular presence on social media, what youwhere she posted every step of Anuri're going to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and soil), where you'll put these containersbasically, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshootingmonetary gain. There's also a good glossary. So, Now Anuri is it any good?}} =='''16 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author= Michael Grothaus|title=Beautiful Shining People|rating=4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= ''But fearing something in her twenties and having it come she is slowly trying to pass are two different things. And I'm willing regain her confidence and to bet most of what we fear will never happenget her life back, or we can suing her step-mother to take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around down the question of identity and acceptancecontent about her. Of what it means Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to be humanstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Of what Most importantly, she is real and what desperately worried about her little sister, who is artificialthe new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and whether perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the development of technology is exciting or frightening.same time?|isbn=191458564X0861546873

=='''30 MARCH6 JUNE'''==

|author=Julia BartzKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Writing RetreatDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Roza ValloMeet Kit. Anyone Like most of the people in the his world , it seems, he is an avid fan of publishing knows Dungeon Running – the name. Writers want sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to be herthe exit, agents want to represent herperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. She Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's something seen of a legend with an impressivethe latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, if compacteaten, back catalogue and a new trio of works that started with her breakthrough novelquestors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, published when she was barely out he has taken to the goading from the token bully of childhoodhis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Alex What chance does this friendless, a writermuscle-slashfree-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Rozazone have in actually managing that, and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited how could he possibly hope to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.succeed?|isbn=08615444391839945184

|authorisbn=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix1635866847|title=Different for BoysThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Teens Lifestyle|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard schoolIt's strange, and the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is surprised 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 – in fact they all go back to primary school days togetherbook for you. As theyBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''re all fired up, straining at I visited the leash only author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a single-sex school can form, slice of chocolate cake on the talk in class and out often turns to sexhomepage. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesnI don't know what his score is, where his achievements in eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that regard liecake viscerally. He(There's had a casual relationshiprecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether corners of pages. You suspect that's set in stone, he can't smears of butter would not be surea problem. And thatI ''loved's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex withthis book already.|isbn=1529509491

|isbnauthor=0857051741Max Boucherat|title=The Sins Last Life of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but heWe meet Lori on the first evening she's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going got the house to herself – no neighbour to investigate the case of a body found pop in a freezer , babysitter poorly, mother at the home of a deceased alcoholicwork, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute of limitations. What could possibly go wrong? Raimo Koskela disappeared without Snuggled in a trace in 1962. He was blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, 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 name, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a songame has been doctored – well, 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 – girl to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance 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