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=='''15 MARCH9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0760373531Tom Percival|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue FlandersThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=Just occasionally you encounter a book of knitting patterns which seems to meet your every need. Right now, it's bitterly cold and we're in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and mittens. They have to look stylish, keep me warm and be so cheerful that they make me feel better. If that sounds like a lot to ask, have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and I don't think that there was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearing. We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the history of knitting. It's not essential but it's a nice extra.
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=='''17 MARCH'''==
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|author=Vanda Symon
|title=Faceless
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpoints, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks to just one mis-step. Set in New Zealand, the first of our characters is Bradley, a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgage, and what he feels is an unappreciative wife. Then there’s Billy, a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes in order to pay for the materials she needs. And then we have Max, who is also living on the streets and who keeps an eye on Billy. He is a shell of a man, barely able to take any care of himself, and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he is now. One night, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxiety, driving down the street looking for a prostitute. He picks up Billy, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from the person he thought he was into someone very different.
|isbn=1914585046
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=='''31 MARCH'''==
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|isbn=B09DD1QJKJ
|title=The Club
|author=Ellery Lloyd
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''The party of the year turned into the murder mystery of the decade.''
 
Just off Littlesea, in Essex and a mile or so into the Blackwater Estuary, The Manor stood on an island. It was now known as Island Home, one of The Home Group's exclusive clubs and the opening weekend was going to be something special, even by Home's standards. Speedboats, helicopters and blacked-out SUVs were converging on the island, which was linked to the mainland by a causeway that was inaccessible at high tide. Home's CEO, Ned Groom, is determined that everything, ''everything'' will be perfect. Home has 5761 members: just 150 of them have received invites for the weekend. Those who have not been invited have not stopped ringing...
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=='''7 APRIL'''==
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|author=Justyn Edwards
|title=The Great Fox Illusion
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show Will's life is difficult, in a contest with a differencemultitude of ways. No singing He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', no dancing, this show is looking for magical children! Children who he has the wrong shoes because his dad can understand how magic tricks 't workand doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and who his dad can attempt to win The Great Fox's magical legacy t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in- hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the secrets to all fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of his tricks! Flick hope. He is determined to wingood at art, but not because she wants and clings to own the tricks. She moments of joy when he is interested in just ''one'' trickdrawing, that feel like a light at the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able to bring her missing father homeend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=15295019461398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Lissa EvansOnyi Nwabineli|title=WishedAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=When things contrive Anuri spent her childhood on display to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanworld, Miss Fileythanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for a week of half-termsponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, they're not looking forward to itmonetary gain. For one thing, Now Anuri is in her twenties and she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand of biscuit. They don't particularly take slowly trying to regain her confidence and to Willard eitherget her life back, the new kid next door, who seems suing her step-mother to ebulliently take over everything and everywheredown the content about her. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candlesAnuri is battling alcoholism, and manage failing to work out that these candlesstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come truedoing so. How will things change for a second time when they realise thatMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, having used up three who is the new focus of themOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, these should really be used for and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the wishes of someone two generations older than themsame time?|isbn=178845202X0861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Jason RohanStuart Douglas|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access DeniedLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Arun During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Sam have had little to do with DonnaLeggit', a girl at their school. But things immediately change at leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the start of this extended sprint dead body of a novel, when she insists Arun's house has become woman on the attention edge of plain-clothes coppers and that they should bunk off school a reservoir. The police seem happy to find out why. And thus assign it as an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really not Donna's idea of companyaccidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he is enlists the computer buffhelp of a fellow actor, Donna seems John Le Breton to know all help him investigate matters further. They travel across the criminal ins country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and outs and survival skills, and Arun? Wellseemingly, it's his lot a link to find out that all he based his family life on isn't true, and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved in something quite unexpecteddeath during the Second World War. But how can this disparate trio hope is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to best MI6, kidnappers, uncover who is responsible before more people able to keep the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much morelose their lives?|isbn=18399433861803368209
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 =='''28 APRIL6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Jennifer SaintKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=ElektraDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells Meet Kit. Like most of the story of three women who live people in the heavily male dominated his world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestrait seems, and Elektra are all bit players in the story he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|isbn=1472273915}} =='''5 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as sport where a servant on the Midoriteam of warrior, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink mage and make merry between their conquests. Howeverhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, when a man named Himura arrives and race to tell her that she is a Crafter like himthe exit, someone perhaps bothering with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the Empireway. He asks her to come with him Unfortunately for Kit, to leave the life only thing he's seen of dreary servitude the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that is all she one team has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matterbeen retired, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigamieaten, and she a new trio of questors is forced needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to flee out into the goading from the token bully of his worldand stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime What chance does this friendless, a skymuscle-free-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigamizone have in actually managing that, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14063995901839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire1635866847|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include TremendousIt's strange, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but things that make you ''immediately'a delight' feel that this is perhaps using the expression in a way book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', Ivisited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there'm not familiar withs a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I have to confess my ignorance of the Spanishdon't eat cakes and desserts -language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation herebut I wanted that cake viscerally. From the little I have read (There's a recipe in translationthe book, which I don't read Spanishm avoiding with some difficulty!!) there does seem Then I started reading the book and I was told to be make a tendency towards mess of it. Notes in the fantastical – margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the mystical realismcorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already. |isbn=0861541901
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=='''2 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }}  =='''21 JUNEJULY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1635864674Max Boucherat|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy HowardThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryConfident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she''Think of it as s got the house to herself – noneighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-whining diningbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome.'' We know it's What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that so many people get confused just goes is to log on to show how versatile Voxminer, the tomato world-building, critter-collecting game that isa hit in Lori's world. Then there are all the different typesBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, not to mention and then she finds something even more spooky. For the cultivars - server she and her bestie and you begin nobody else should be able to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't loveenter shows signs of tampering. I'd argue with When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her there - I have no affection for the ones you find safe place in the supermarket ''next'' to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from the ones that have obviously just game has been grown for profit. Personallydoctored – well, I'd prefer where is a tin of tomatoes girl to those - and Howard makes good use of these. She's not at all precious if you get the taste.turn?|isbn=0008666482
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