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=='''31 JANUARY30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=0811771741B0CYV674G2|title=InstaKnits for BabySwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Melissa LeapmanDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blanketsIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. Some will be quick knits A man, covered in mud and blood - others are of and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn'long, cosy afternoons in front of t killed the fire' varietyman. The projects are divided by A body at the time theybottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he'll take s been stabbed to complete - less than five hoursdeath. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hourswhich coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. All You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the projects are attractive, modern words 'perverse' and useable'John Tanner' were made for each other. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about He'socials sleep-media-worthy projects' deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but thathe's me being pickydetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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=='''1 FEBRUARY4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonaghStuart Douglas|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns Lowe and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globeLe Breton Mysteries -trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic Death at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James HenryDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's February 1991 sitcom 'Floggit and Essex is bitingly coldLeggit', which made Bruce Hopkins' return all leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the more surprising. He'd been exiled dead body of a woman on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for edge of a decadereservoir. The return has come police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about because the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he's had enlists the help of a letter from his ex-wifefellow actor, saying that she's ill and hasn't long John Le Breton to livehelp him investigate matters further. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abductedThey travel across the country during their days off filming, stripped to his underwear uncovering more possible murders and sent , seemingly, a link to a watery grave in death during the boot of a stolen Ford SierraSecond World War. Is it But is there really a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer link between the deaths? And will they manage to homeuncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Adam StowerSaima Mir|title=Murray and BunVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Confident Readers Thrillers|summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the twonorth of England run by a Muslim woman. But heThe fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn's a bad magiciant stop me – I's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned ve jumped midway into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, few series before (on page and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure screen) and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to needn't be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and hindrance if it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luckgood enough. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out And that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Bennywasn's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (t a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they areproblem here.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. 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 is coming out of a break Vengeance swiftly brings you 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 lovespeed, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charmI never felt lost. 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=18469765960861541561
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|isbnauthor=0861541774Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve BurrowsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and former colleaguehealer enter specially prepared, century-old, Danny Maikmagical mazes, has taken a short holiday in Singapore and race to meet up the exit, perhaps bothering with an old ally, Guy Truemanthe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Maik was involved in a street brawl - Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he would later maintain 's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that he was facing a man armed with a knife - one team has been retired, eaten, and he killed a Ghurkanew trio of questors is needed. InitiallyPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he faced a charge has taken to the goading from the token bully of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that his world and stumbled into declaring he might have planned to murder the man'll enter as a team. Now What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing possibly hope to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=1529395224Jenny Valentine|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow Us in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}=='''29 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and BladeAfter|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote Elk and partially forgotten islandMab are best friends, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before heror more than that even, their friendship is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off once in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sealifetime connection. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, They meet as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smugglerchildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's territory, Mira must be determined to stop contact details at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most deartime.|isbn=0008664730}}=='''14 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas But then chance brings them back together, and his friends they are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that inseparable. Something has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting filmshappened though, something terrible and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very differenttragic, and now they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinemamust work through their grief, and to their real lives?friendship, together.|isbn=18399427381471196585
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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?
|isbn=0008666482
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|author=Jenny Lecoat
|title=Beyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=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 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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