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=='''4 JANUARY9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0760381267Tom Percival|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=3.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''. I've 'gardened' in a vague, indefinite sort of way for more than half a century. I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to gardening. ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answer. So, how did it stack up?}}=='''11 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Alastair Humphreys|title=LocalWrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Travel Confident Readers|summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the worldWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. And then written about it. For this book He is bullied because he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As has 'the wrong shoes', he says in has the wrong shoes because his introduction, the book is an attempt dad can't work and doesn'to share what I t have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, enough money for even the most basic of things like food system, rewilding…and his dad can'' One of t work because he lost his job at the joys of the book for me college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was fact that there his mum and dad are no easy answersseparated, no single 'right or wrongand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, that every upside he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is likely good at art, and clings to have the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices aheadlong, dark tunnel.|isbn=17856336781398527122
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=='''31 JANUARY23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0811771741Onyi Nwabineli|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa LeapmanAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to blankets. Some will be quick knits her step- others are of the mother Ophelia'longs increasingly popular presence on social media, cosy afternoons in front where she posted every step of the fireAnuri' varietys childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. The projects are divided by the time they'll take Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to complete - less than five hours, five regain her confidence and to ten hoursget her life back, ten suing her step-mother to twenty hours and more than twenty hourstake down the content about her. All the projects are attractiveAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, modern undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and useablereceiving money from them for doing so. I perhaps show my age when I wonder Most importantly, she is desperately worried about 'social-media-worthy projects' but thather little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's me being pickyonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''1 FEBRUARY4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Sarah MarshStuart Douglas|title=A Sign of Her OwnLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a childDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when woman on the use edge of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught reservoir. The police seem happy to lip readassign it as an accidental death, but physically restrained from signing. From heresomething about the whole thing bothers Lowe, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching and he enlists the deaf and using help of a system called Visible Speechfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. At They travel across the same timecountry during their days off filming, Bell is working on other inventions uncovering more possible murders and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|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 himseemingly, and in the evening a helper at link to death during the dessert cafe his gran owns and runsSecond World War. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for But is there is really a generation missing in link between the family. deaths? A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost And will they manage to the titular race, a globe-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 uncover who 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.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=05713822311803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray 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 Kieran Larwood 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}}=='''14 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Christopher EdgeJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Black Hole Cinema ClubDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lucas and Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinemaworld, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a place that has the nickname team of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fanswarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, they're looking forward and race to lots of exciting filmsthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and many, many snacks! the points they grant you along the way. HoweverUnfortunately for Kit, as the movie startsonly thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, they very quickly realise that something about this eaten, and a new film format trio of questors is needed. Possibly very differentunfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and they are swept up stumbled into an adventure they couldndeclaring he't even imaginell enter as a team. But as they lurch from one film genre to the nextWhat chance does this friendless, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinemamuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to their real livessucceed?|isbn=18399427381839945184
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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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