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=='''31 JANUARY25 APRIL'''==
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|isbnauthor=0811771741Sylvie Cathrall|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa LeapmanA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=CraftsScience Fiction|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us There are few greater joys than a collection of knits from toys book which lives up to blanketsa compelling premise. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front And this is one 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 pickythem.|isbn= 0356522776
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=='''1 FEBRUARY9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1529431735Tom Percival|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James HenryWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=ItWill's February 1991 and Essex life is bitingly colddifficult, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprisingin a multitude of ways. Heis bullied because he has 'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return wrong shoes', he has come about the wrong shoes because hehis dad can't work and doesn's had a letter from his ex-wifet have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, saying that she's ill and hasnhis dad can't long to livework because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. ItThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's hard life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings 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 Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able 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, 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 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 luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery Allow Me 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 of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion CompanyIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in EdinburghAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, run by Ness where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored servicebasically, monetary gain. Ness has asked Now Anuri is in her younger cousin Katie if twenties and she could come is slowly trying to regain her confidence and look after the businessto get her life back, as Ness is planning suing her step-mother to take a trip to Canada to get away for a whiledown the content about her. Katie Anuri is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriendbattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall SmithMost importantly, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already loveshe is desperately worried about her little sister, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and who is the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charmfocus of Ophelia's online empire. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in Can she save her abilitiessister, and there's always perhaps herself and her relationship with her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…father at the same time?|isbn=18469765960861546873
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=='''8 FEBRUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend Kieran Larwood and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife Joe Todd- and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came 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=1529395224Stanton|title=Letting the Cat Out of the BagDungeon Runners: 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 footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, 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 to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}=='''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 deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one 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 Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and 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 ClubHero 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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