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=='''23 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}=='''17 30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=0711266204B0CYV674G2|title=The Secret Life of BirdsSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I have recently discovered It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a great pleasure: I sit and watch knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the vast numbers bottom of birds which visit our garden on a daily basisfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed DCI John Tanner is just back from the groundhis honeymoon, which pop to coincided with the feeders for a quick snatch birth of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeablehis daughter Samantha. It You would have been wonderful if, as a child, Ithink he'd had access to a book such as be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner'were made for each other. He'The Secret Life s sleep-deprived to the point of Birdsfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home. So – what is it?
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 =='''26 MAY4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Stuart Douglas|title=Little DrummerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is edge of a mixture of reservoir. The police procedural seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and thrillerhe enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Beginning with They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}=='''6 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of a young woman the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a carparkteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that looks one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very much like an overdoseunfortunately indeed for Kit, it unravels he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a farteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-reaching investigation of murder, fraudfree-zone have in actually managing that, and international pharmaceutical dealingshow could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}=='''13 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is led to Africa as they follow the twists book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and turns there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the investigationhomepage. Gunnarstranda I don't eat cakes and Frolich are tenaciousdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, chasing down which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the truth book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard the margins are sanctioned. You get to uncover fold down the truth as they are sure corners of pages. You suspect that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going onsmears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1914585127
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=='''2 JUNE4 JULY'''=={{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver Max Boucherat|title=The Weight Last Life of Loss Lori Mills|rating=4 .5|genre=Literary Fiction Confident Readers|summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after We meet Lori on the death of her sister, first evening she awakes 's got the house to find strangeherself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of on her spine which steadily increase lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her griefblanket fort, recommends she go to stay at Nedehas one main intention, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange and that is happening to Marianne and log on to Voxminer, the other patients at Nede: world-building, critter-collecting game that is a metamorphosis of hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a kind. As Mariannetiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's memories threaten to overwhelm t find herself entirely on herown, Nede offers and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her release from this cycle bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of memory tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and pain—but only at her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a terrible price: that of identity itself.girl to turn?|isbn= 086154112X 0008666482}}  =='''21 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1635864674Jenny Lecoat|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy HowardBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=CookeryGeneral Fiction|summary=''Think Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of it as no-whining dining.'' We know it's a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact that so many people get confused just goes to show how versatile the tomato isoccupation. Then there are all During the different typeswar, not Jean's father was arrested for listening to mention the cultivars - a banned radio and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met soldiers took him away one she didn't lovenight, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. I'd argue with her there - I have no affection for As the ones you find in British finally free the supermarket ''next'' to Channel islands from the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from Nazis, and the ones war is finally over, their hopes rise that have obviously just been grown for profitthey will finally learn what became of him. PersonallyBut will the truth come as a relief, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - and Howard makes good use of these. or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? She's not at all precious if you get And what other secrets have been kept throughout the taste.occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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