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=='''31 OCTOBER23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1635866243Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth Allow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=CraftsGeneral 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'I quickly discovered s childhood for sponsorships and influencer 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=Swanton 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 putting he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been 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 numbers 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 page wasnlink between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}=='''6 JUNE't enough''=={{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Creating Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a pattern team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that was correct, clearone team has been retired, conciseeaten, and consistent required a great deal new trio of trial questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and errorstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, patiencemuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and perseverancehow could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}=='''13 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|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. (Introduction byFrancoise DanoyThere'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.}}
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 the seller refused as then she couldn't afford the repaymentfinds something even more spooky. The pattern looked pretty, but For the creator didn't have the basic knowledge server she and skills to enable her bestie and nobody else should be able to connect with her knittersenter shows signs of tampering. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''.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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=='''2 NOVEMBER'''==
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|isbnauthor=1035025299Jenny Lecoat|title=Went to London, Took the Dog|author=Nina StibbeBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Nina Stibbe is returning Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to London for a sabbatical after being banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for twenty yearsfor news of him. She's been at Victoria's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that conducive to writingthey will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, as there's always something smallholding happening - as you might expect. or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? The And what other side of secrets have been kept throughout the decision was sealed when a room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) at a very reasonable rent.occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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