A Gardener’s Latin (The Language of Plants Explained) by Richard Bird – Published by National Trust books This book is a lot more user-friendly than you might imagine from the title. Once you...

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The Extraordinary life of Frank Derrick, age 81 – By J.B. Morrison – Published by Pan in 2014 From the blurb on the cover I expected something along the lines of the wonderfully quirky...

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The Big Christmas Rescue by Rory Stamp, illustrated by Hannah Cumming (A personalised adventure book available from and sold in aid of the RNLI) If shops can open their Christmas departments in...

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Doodling For Cat People by Gemma Correll Published by Walter Foster, 2015 Part colouring book, part guide to drawing, part notebook, part life story (mine by the sound of it, although I’ve...

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My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman Translated by Henning Koch – Published by Sceptre Hodder & Stoughton, Jun 2015 From the author of ‘A Man Called Ove’ and recognisably...

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Murder, She Wrote: The Ghost and Mrs Fletcher by Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain and Renee Paley-Bain – Published by Penguin Random House, Oct 2015 If you’ve watched the TV series ‘Murder, She Wrote’,...

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Heroes of the Coffee Rota by Dave Walker – Published by Canterbury Press, June 2015   Described as a book for “everyone who keeps the church going. Those who lead, arrange, preach, attend,...

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Views Of Our Time … Abstracts by Pat Yallup – (Painting the Sixth Sense) Pat Yallup, an artist, and John Birch, a poet, have collaborated to produce a book of abstract art and...

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Carmen Zita og døden (the drowned boy) by Karin Fossum – Published in English by Penguin 2015 The latest in the series of Chief Inspector Sejer crime novels by Norwegian writer, Karin Fossum,...

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Boys Don’t Knit (In Public) by T S Easton – Published by Hot Key Books in 2014 Ben Fletcher is the teenage son of embarrassing parents. He’s also an accidental and, frankly, hopeless...

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