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=='''31 JANUARY9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0811771741Tom Percival|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|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 picky.}}=='''1 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her OwnWrong Shoes|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends 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 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 Will's life 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 and runs. Eli lives with his lovely grandifficult, 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 globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company multitude of a magical beastways. 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 He is to dare to enter what bullied because he most hates, with has 'the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Itwrong shoes's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all he has the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about wrong shoes because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that shedad can's ill t work and hasndoesn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in have enough money for even the boot most basic of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly catthings like food, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But dad can't work because he's a bad magician's cat, so lost his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and job at the catflap they both use can chuck them outcollege, not into the regular back garden, but into was working a cash-in-hand job on a world of frightening adventure building site and whiffshad an accident. This time round it drops them Throw into a Viking landthat mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but heand Will'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 daylife seems bleak in every direction. He loses his jobAnd yet, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone still has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-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 the very last person to deserve all this bad lucktiny amount of hope. 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 Bennyat art, and will certainly take care clings to the moments of Benny's enemies, if joy when heis drawing, Bennythat feel like a light at the end of a long, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they aredark tunnel.|isbn=16625004911398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Alexander McCall SmithOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Perfect Passion CompanyAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in EdinburghAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, run by Ness where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored servicebasically, monetary gain. Ness has asked Now Anuri is in her younger cousin Katie if twenties and she could come is slowly trying to regain her confidence and look after the businessto get her life back, as Ness is planning suing her step-mother to take a trip to Canada to get away for a whiledown the content about her. Katie Anuri is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriendbattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall SmithMost importantly, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already loveshe is desperately worried about her little sister, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and who is the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charmfocus of Ophelia's online empire. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in Can she save her abilitiessister, and there's always perhaps herself and her relationship with her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…father at the same time?|isbn=18469765960861546873
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=='''8 FEBRUARY4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=0861541774Stuart Douglas|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve BurrowsLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic JejeuneDuring location filming for his 1970's close friend sitcom 'Floggit and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old allyLeggit', Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a leading man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}=='''15 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of woman on the Bag: The Secret Life edge of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentallyreservoir. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want The police seem happy to follow in his footstepsassign it as an accidental death, particularly when he considered but something about the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When whole thing bothers Lowe, and he was seventeen he took enlists the opportunity help of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for fellow actor, John Le Breton to help himinvestigate matters further. Before longThey travel across the country during their days off filming, 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 uncovering more possible murders and Blade|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.'' Rosevearseemingly, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out link to survey death during the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies withinSecond World War. But when the Council Watch lays is there really a trap to end link between the wrecking, deaths? And will they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate manage to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor uncover who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=00086647301803368209
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=='''14 MARCH6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Christopher EdgeKieran Larwood and Joe 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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