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=='''1 FEBRUARY25 APRIL'''==
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|author=Alexander McCall SmithSylvie Cathrall|title=The Perfect Passion CompanyA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is There are few greater joys than a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative book which lives up to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored servicecompelling premise. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie And this is coming out one 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 love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charmthem. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=18469765960356522776
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=='''8 FEBRUARY9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0861541774Tom Percival|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve BurrowsThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=DCI Domenic JejeuneWill's close friend and former colleaguelife is difficult, Danny Maik, has taken in a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Truemanmultitude of ways. Maik was involved in a street brawl - He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he would later maintain that has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was facing working a man armed with cash-in-hand job on a knife - building site and he killed a Ghurkahad an accident. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light Throw into that suggested mix the fact that he might have planned to murder the manhis mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. Now And yet, he could be facing the death penaltystill has a tiny amount of hope. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing He is good at art, and clings to help as any interference from another police force could provoke the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny light at allthe end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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=='''15 FEBRUARY23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1529395224Onyi Nwabineli|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion RowlandsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeGeneral Fiction|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want Anuri spent her childhood on display to follow in his footstepsthe world, particularly when he considered the strain that being onthanks to her step-call put mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on his fathersocial media, where she posted every step of Anuri's lifechildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and was convinced this was to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the job for himcontent about her. Before longAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, he was at Liverpool Universityundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. It hadnMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a childs online empire. If anythingCan she save her sister, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|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, eaten, they very quickly realise that something about this 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=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.1839945184
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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?
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