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 =='''3 MARCH2 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }}
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|isbn=15291516001800901232|title=Give Unto OthersStitched Up|author=Donna LeonSteve Cole
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|genre=CrimeDyslexia Friendly|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changedTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. The ''pandemia'' stripped Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the city of its tourists for nearly two years smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a lot of businesses have closed, most never job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to reopenbe missed. There's now a cascade of Some money as life begins again but even 125changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only,000 deaths have Hanh and the other girls were not put going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an end to greedillegal garment factory. The Mafias have liquidity problemsYou know those jeans you really wanted: how the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on earth are they going to launder all the money which is coming their waylegs? Whilst he's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when he was a child. you touched them? Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like BrunettiIt's advicequite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.
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|isbnauthor=B0949Q1DC1Fiona Longmuir|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)|author=Tim SullivanLooking for Emily
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Asperger's SyndromeMeet Lily. He can be rudeShe and her mother have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edge, difficult and awkward with people, although it's never intentionaleveryone from said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. It's just turns out that he thinks differently and social niceties simply donshe doesn't occur have any say in the matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is just about to himmake herself known, and in a big way. ThereBut where does Emily come from? Well, Lily used that name because of what she's d just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind a reason why he's most unassuming door, in Bristola place calling itself 's Major Crime Unit and itThe Museum of Emily's that he has the best conviction rate with cases, ever. His partner Sam is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognisecompletely unaware of this 'museum', too, or welcome being attached leaving the two girls to himself) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Crossmake sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behaviourbehind the intrigue...|isbn=1839942754
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 =='''15 MARCH9 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=0760373531152941363X|title=Cozy Knits: 30 HatTo Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the WorldChief of Police Novel)|author=Sue FlandersMartin Walker|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=Just occasionally you encounter a book ''Nobody knows what the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ'), the head of detectives for the départment of knitting patterns which seems to meet your every needthe Dordogne. Right now, itThey's bitterly cold and were not just policemen - they're in both deeply committed to the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats well-being and mittensprosperity of this most beautiful part of France. They have to look stylishThe discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, keep me warm crashed and be abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so cheerful that much had it not been for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they make me feel betterfound in the car. If that sounds like a lot to askOh, have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and I don't think that there was one of them a golf ball too, which I couldndidn't see myself wearing. We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some belong to the owner of the history of knittingcar. It's not essential but itA golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniper's weapon. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a nice extra.certain direction?
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=='''7 APRIL'''==
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|authorisbn=Justyn Edwards0241542405|title=The Great Fox IllusionMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is a contest with a differenceWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. No singing, no dancing, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks work She'd ''like'' to: in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and who can attempt she's even considered which shoes to win The Great Foxwear if she's magical legacy - the secrets going to all of his tricks! Flick is determined to wincatch her train. Then, but not because she wants can't. She simply can't force herself to own leave the trickssafety of her home. She is interested in just 's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie'ones a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you' trickll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, the trick that The Great Fox stole from so you can guess what she does in her fatherspare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. And she He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able to bring her missing father home.|isbn=1529501946
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|author=Lissa EvansWill Brooker|title=WishedThe Truth About Lisa Jewell|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersBiography|summary=When things contrive to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanMeet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], Miss Filey, for a week one of half-term, theythe most successful British authors I're not looking forward to itve never knowingly read. For Now meet Will Brooker, one thing, she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand of biscuitthe thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. They don't particularly take to Willard eitherThis book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything two closer and everywherecloser together. But things soon change when they find The meeting was some tiny old birthday candlesunspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was reciting, and manage her being in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to work out that these candlesattend), but pulled Brooker, for as long as their flames lasta professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, make birthday wishes come truedown the rabbit-hole that is Jewell's diverse output. How will things change for Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through a second time when they realise thatyear in the published author's life, having used up three working to make a success of themthe latest title, these should really be used for and struggling with the wishes of someone two generations older than them?next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the result.|isbn=178845202X1529136024
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 =='''28 APRIL21 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint1635864674|title=ElektraTomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy Howard
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|genre=Literary FictionCookery|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells Think of it as no-whining dining.'' We know it's a fruit rather than a vegetable but the story of three women who live in fact that so many people get confused just goes to show how versatile the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greecetomato is. Cassandra, Clytemnestra Then there are all the different types, not to mention the cultivars - and Elektra are all bit players you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't love. I'd argue with her there - I have no affection for the ones you find in the story of supermarket ''next'' to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us ones that often the silent women have the most compelling stories obviously just been grown for profit. Personally, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - and Howard makes good use of these. She's not at all precious if you get the most extreme furiestaste.|isbn=1472273915
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=='''5 MAY23 JUNE'''==
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|author= Ann Sei LinEwald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)|title= Rebel SkiesTasting Sunlight|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Kurara Sally is a teenager who has spent run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants space, and for people to stop questioning her, tiptoeing around her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives trying to tell fix her that she is a Crafter like him, someone without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks woman called Liss who is in her forties and seems to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that live alone. Liss is all she unlike any other adult Sally has knownever met. WellShe just accepts Sally as she is, soon Kurara won't have any say giving her a room to sleep in the matter, because and the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced space to flee out into the worldjust be. She joins Himura aboard As they work together on the Orihimefarm, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigamicloseness develops between them, and becoming a whole world of adventure awaits her…beautiful, powerful friendship.|isbn=14063995901914585143
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|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire1398508632|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde
|rating=5
|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary= Early comments It had been on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendousthe cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a delightpandemic. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but ' Wilde had a delight' is perhaps using few advantages: the expression in area around her was a way I'm not familiar known habitat witha variety of terrains. I have She had electricity which allowed her to confess my ignorance of the Spanishrun a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car -language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereand fuel. From the little I have read (in translationMost importantly, I donshe had shelter: this was not a plan to 't read Spanish) there does seem 'live'' wild just to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismlive off its produce. |isbn=0861541901
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