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=='''26 OCTOBER23 MAY'''==
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|author=Adam Baron Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=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 Benji Daviesinfluencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her 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. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}=='''30 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=OscarSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's Lionbeen stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}=='''4 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}=='''6 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4
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|summary=We start incredibly bluntlyMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or fatherit seems, but mother he is more likely an avid fan of Dungeon Running read him his very favourite book the sport where a couple team of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroomwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bedcentury-old, looking sheepishmagical mazes, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat race to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the other monthway. And it can shapeshiftUnfortunately for Kit, so the only thing he can take it to school and it can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to have around seen of the latest race on the house – not limiting his biscuit intakeinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, being much more lax about the ruleseaten, and so ona new trio of questors is needed. OKPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, it canhe has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he't work ll enter as a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful timeteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=00085967511839945184
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=='''31 OCTOBER13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=16358662431635866847|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing HandbookLavender Companion|author=Kristina McGrath Jessica Dunham and Sarah Walworth Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=CraftsLifestyle|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 quickly discovered that putting words visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and numbers there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on a page wasnthe homepage. I don't enougheat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Creating (There's a pattern that was correct, clear, conciserecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and consistent required I was told to make a great deal mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of trial and error, patience, and perseverancebutter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy)this book already.}}
A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern for which =='''4 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|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'd paid good moneys 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. The first line of What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the instructions began: 'world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori'Cast off 100 stitchess world...'' It was clear But first Lori has a tiny inkling that no good could come of this - the instructions didnstormy night doesn't get any better - find herself entirely on her own, and (finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when then she finds something even more spooky. For the seller refused as server she couldn't afford the repaymentand her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. The pattern looked prettyWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but the creator didn't have the basic knowledge and skills to enable her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to connect turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her knittersmother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook'During the 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 him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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