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=='''4 JANUARY30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=0760381267B0CYV674G2|title=Verdura: Living a Garden LifeSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-SantiagoDavid Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=LifestyleCrime|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''The most important part t killed the man. A body at the bottom of a garden 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 one who enjoys itbirth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words '. Iperverse've and 'gardenedJohn Tanner' in a vague, indefinite sort of way were made for more than half a centuryeach other. I know (most He's sleep-deprived to the point of) the basics falling asleep at work but life has changed and I needed he'projects' rather than a general commitment s determined to gardening. ''Verdurakeep going - probably because he can'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answert get any sleep at home. So, how did it stack up?
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=='''11 JANUARY4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Alastair HumphreysStuart Douglas|title=LocalLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Travel Crime|summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and cycled all over Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the worldedge of a reservoir. And then written The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about it. For this book he walked the whole thing bothers Lowe, and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introductionenlists the help of a fellow actor, the book is an attempt ''John Le Breton to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small maphelp him investigate matters further. Nature loss, pollutionThey travel across the country during their days off filming, land use uncovering more possible murders and access, agricultureseemingly, a link to death during the food system, rewilding…'' One of Second World War. But is there really a link between the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=17856336781803368209
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=='''31 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|rating=3.5
|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=After a bout I was instantly intrigued by the premise of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living this novel – an organised crime syndicate in a time when the use north of sign language England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to the second in a school where she is taught to lip series I hadn't read, but physically restrained from signingdidn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. From And that wasn't a problem here, she ends . Vengeance swiftly brings you up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideasto speed, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionageI never felt lost.|isbn=10354016140861541561
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|author=Alex Bell Kieran Larwood and Tim McDonaghJoe Todd-Stanton|title=The Glorious Race of Magical BeastsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Eli Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is a busy lad an avid fan of Dungeon Running – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with himsport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and in race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the evening a helper at treasure or the dessert cafe his gran owns big bad and runsthe points they grant you along the way. Eli lives with his lovely granUnfortunately for Kit, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Elionly thing he's parents were both lost to seen of the titular latest raceon the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company new trio of a magical beastquestors is needed. This Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has made the race anathema taken to the pair – but when a bad incident at goading from the eatery leads to token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a confession from granteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, Eli knows his only and how could he possibly hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.succeed?|isbn=05713822311839945184
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|author=Adam StowerJenny Valentine|title=Murray Us in the Before and BunAfter|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=Murray is supposed to be a humbleElk and Mab are best friends, tidy and friendly cator more than that even, one who their friendship 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 once in a world of frightening adventure and whiffslifetime connection. This time round it drops them into They meet as children one day on a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, trip out but heunfortunately they don't get each other's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}=='''14 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon contact details at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'time. All big movie fansBut then chance brings them back together, and they're looking forward to lots of exciting filmsare inseparable. Something has happened 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?
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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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