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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=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky3.}}=='''1 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's February 1991 seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and Essex is bitingly coldcarrying a knife, which made Bruce Hopkinscomes into the police station shouting that he hasn' return all t killed the more surprisingman. He'd been exiled on A body at the Costa del Sol as bottom of a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's had a letter been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his ex-wifehoneymoon, saying that shewhich coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse's ill and hasn't long to liveJohn Tanner' were made for each other. ItHe's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped sleep-deprived to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot point of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home?.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Adam StowerStuart Douglas|title=Murray Lowe and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |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 of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure 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 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 coffinLe Breton Mysteries -sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is Death at the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out 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 Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion CompanyDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|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 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 love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. 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=1846976596}}=='''8 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic JejeuneDuring location filming for his 1970's close friend sitcom 'Floggit and former colleagueLeggit', Danny Maik, has taken leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a short holiday in Singapore reservoir. The police seem happy to meet up with assign it as an old allyaccidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed enlists the help of a Ghurkafellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. InitiallyThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came link to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder death during the manSecond World War. Now he could be facing But is there really a link between the death penalty. deaths? Domenic Jejeune can do nothing And will they manage to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''15 FEBRUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1529395224Saima Mir|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion RowlandsVengeance
|rating=3.5
|genre=Animals and WildlifeThrillers|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentallyI was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. His father The fact that it was the second in a GP and Rowlands series I hadn't read didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on-call put on his fatherpage and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's lifegood enough. 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 hadnAnd that wasn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a childproblem here. If anythingVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, he'd wanted to be a professional footballerand I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|isbnauthor=1529900360Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan KellermanDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he felt responsible is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and even after Alex recoveredhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, Sturgis was reluctant and race to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a whilepoints they grant you along the way. FinallyUnfortunately for Kit, it was Robin, Delawarethe only thing he's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that seen of the latest race on the involvement was something inn TV equivalent is that the man she loved one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. The next case did look simplePossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, though. Two lovers were murdered in he has taken to the goading from the swimming pool token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a remote property in Bel Airteam. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and she is married how could he possibly hope to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary targetsucceed?|isbn=1839945184
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{{Frontpage
|author=Rachel GreenlawJenny Valentine|title=Compass Us in the Before 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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{{Frontpage
|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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