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=='''16 FEBRUARY23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008506337Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina MooreAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuminginfluencer deals and, basically, apparently on both sidesmonetary gain. Margo was just sixteen when they fell Now Anuri is in loveher twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Richard was twenty-one Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'receiving money from them for doing so. Her parents Most importantly, she is desperately worried that Richardabout her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering careeronline empire. In the eventCan she save her sister, they eloped and Richard took perhaps herself and her relationship with her away from father at the Isle of Wightsame time?|isbn=0861546873}}=='''30 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3. Margo did go to Oxford 5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and went on to become a well-respected journalistshut case. The couple had three children: RachelA man, Imogen covered in mud and Sasha. Life was lived in London blood - and holidays were spent at Sandcovecarrying a knife, comes into the family home on police station shouting that he hasn't killed the Isle of Wightman. Even then A body at the doubts about Richardbottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's drinking were never far been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from Margohis honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 's mind: perverse' and 'John Tanner'were made for each other. He'she would never be able s sleep-deprived to leave him in chargethe point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can'. Then Richard left themt get any sleep at home.
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 =='''23 FEBRUARY4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Natasha FarrantStuart Douglas|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Voyage Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the Sparrowhawk''edge of a reservoir. Ravenwood is The police seem happy to assign it as an old houseaccidental death, in but something about the North of Englandwhole thing bothers Lowe, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part he enlists the help of a complexfellow actor, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a familyJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They have grown up swimming in travel across the covecountry during their days off filming, roaming through the treesuncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, completely at one with all of a link to death during the nature around the house and loving every inch of the placeSecond World War. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell there really a link between the property to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. deaths? The children find themselves worrying not only about where And will they're going manage to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=05713487851803368209
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=='''2 MARCH6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Alice M RossKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Nowhere ThiefDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=At last there is new stock in Meet Kit. Like most of the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run people in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen his world, it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found outseems, because she has he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the ability to leave this worldsport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours race to enter other worldsthe exit, where perhaps bothering with the treasure or the sea levels are rising dramatically big bad and the buildings are generally empty points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of humans the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and ripe for plundera new trio of questors is needed. With eviction imminentPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, can Elsbeth nab anything he has taken to actually generate custom at the shop? goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Well yesWhat chance does this friendless, is the answermuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=18399437691839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=15295047751635866847|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)Lavender Companion|author=Amy Sparkes Jessica Dunham and Katie HickeyTerry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to It's strange, the park and watch things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the red buses drive pastbook for you. Elsie would race Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the buses along the side author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the park but David couldnhomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficultbut I wanted that cake viscerally. One day Elsie spotted (There's a bus recipe in the toy shop window book, which would help David - I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was happy told to use the coins from her money box to pay for make a mess of it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use Notes in the bus for support, and walk behind itmargins are sanctioned. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, You get to fold down the Repair Shop, hoping corners of pages. You suspect that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with itsmears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Merryn Glover
|title=The Hidden Fires
|rating=5
|genre=Travel
|summary= It is always about the book, not the writer, but there are times when the author's hinterland is also the background to the book and so it is necessary to understand that context, in order to appreciate the book. Merryn Glover 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 famously.
|isbn=1846975751
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=='''9 MARCH'''==
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|isbn=0760378134
|title=The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening
|author=Pamela Farley
|rating=5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be 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 to start, this is the book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary. So, is it any good?
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=='''16 MARCH'''==
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|author= Michael Grothaus
|title=Beautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.''
''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X}}=='''30 MARCH4 JULY'''==
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|author=Julia BartzMax Boucherat|title=The Writing Retreat|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part Last Life of her month-long writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for BoysLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary=Ant is We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in Year Eleven , babysitter poorly, mother at quite work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a standard schoolblanket fort, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) she has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football teammain intention, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back that is to log on to primary school days together. As they're all fired upVoxminer, straining at the leash only a singleworld-sex school can formbuilding, the talk critter-collecting game that is a hit in class and out often turns to sexLori's world. Which is confusing for Ant, as he But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't know what his score isfind herself entirely on her own, where his achievements in that regard lieand then she finds something even more spooky. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, For the server she and her bestie and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't nobody else should be sureable to enter shows signs of tampering. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the sex with.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=15295094910008666482
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|isbnauthor=0857051741Jenny Lecoat|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Beyond Summerland|rating=54|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the case end of a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholicoccupation. The problem is that During the case has long passed the statute war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of limitationshim. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was As the British finally free the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: Channel islands from the problem is that this is a dying man's wish. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry PekkariNazis, and the dead alcoholicwar is finally over, was also murderedtheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. Is there a connection between But will the two deaths?}}=='''13 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was truth come as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that shipa relief, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the name of the goddess. It war? Who was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one informer who longs for adventure. When told the opportunity comes – to join Nazis about the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout 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.occupation?|isbn=14722921541846976537
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