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=='''4 JANUARY25 APRIL'''==
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|isbnauthor=0760381267Sylvie Cathrall|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=3.5|genre=Lifestyle|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 than half a century. I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment A Letter to gardening. ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answer. So, how did it stack up?}}=='''11 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Alastair Humphreys|title=LocalLuminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Travel Science Fiction|summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the worldThere are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all one of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices aheadthem.|isbn=17856336780356522776
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=='''18 JANUARY9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0571379559Tom Percival|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona WilliamsWrong Shoes
|rating=5
|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 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
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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 Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to be a humbleher step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, tidy where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and friendly cat, one who basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is able slowly trying to sleep and eat and eat and sleep regain her confidence andto get her life back, well, whatever takes his fancy next of suing her step-mother to take down the twocontent about her. But he's a bad magician's catAnuri is battling alcoholism, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bunfailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and the catflap they both use can chuck receiving money from them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffsfor doing so. This time round it drops them into a Viking landMost importantly, where a troll hunter she is expected – welldesperately worried about her little sister, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but hewho is the new focus of Ophelia's turned up online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and he'll have to do…her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=00085612490861546873
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=='''14 MARCH6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Christopher EdgeKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Black Hole Cinema ClubDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lucas and Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinemaworld, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a place that has the nickname team of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fanswarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, they're looking forward and race to lots of exciting filmsthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and many, many snacks! the points they grant you along the way. HoweverUnfortunately for Kit, as the movie startsonly thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, they very quickly realise that something about this eaten, and a new film format trio of questors is needed. Possibly very differentunfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and they are swept up stumbled into an adventure they couldndeclaring he't even imaginell enter as a team. But as they lurch from one film genre to the nextWhat chance does this friendless, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinemamuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to their real livessucceed?|isbn=18399427381839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of 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 a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Max Boucherat
|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?
|isbn=0008666482
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