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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=B0949Q1DC11800901232|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)Stitched Up|author=Tim SullivanSteve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeDyslexia Friendly|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Asperger's SyndromeTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. He can be rudeLife in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, difficult so when the smartly-dressed man and awkward with people, although woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it's never intentionalwas an opportunity not to be missed. It's just that he thinks differently Some money changed hands and social niceties simply don't occur Hanh was on the mini-bus to himHanoi. There's a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit Only, Hanh and it's that he has the best conviction rate with casesother girls were not going to work in a shop, everthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. His partner is DS Josie OtteyYou know those jeans you really wanted: she regards Cross the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) the artfully-placed rips and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Crossdistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's behaviourquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.
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=='''15 MARCH'''==
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|isbnauthor=0760373531Fiona Longmuir|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue FlandersLooking for Emily
|rating=5
|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=Just occasionally you encounter Meet Lily. She and her mother have just moved from a book of knitting patterns which seems city to meet your every need. Right nowa tiny seaside town called Edge, it's bitterly cold and weeveryone from said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out that she doesn're t have any say in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socksmatter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she is unaware her neighbour, scarvesSam, hats and mittens. They have is just about to look stylishmake herself known, keep me warm and be so cheerful that they make me feel betterin a big way. If But where does Emily come from? Well, Lily used that sounds like name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind a lot to askmost unassuming door, have in a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and I donplace calling itself 't think that there was one The Museum of them which I couldnEmily't see myself wearing. We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum', too, leaving the history of knitting. Ittwo girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's not essential but it's a nice extrabehind the intrigue...|isbn=1839942754
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 =='''7 APRIL9 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Justyn Edwards152941363X|title=The Great Fox IllusionTo Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show ''Nobody knows what the truth is a contest with a differenceany more. No singing, no dancing, this show '' Bruno Courrèges is looking the police chief for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks work, St Denis and much of the Vézère valley and who can attempt to win The Great Foxworks closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ's magical legacy - ), the head of detectives for the secrets to all départment of his tricks! Flick is determined to win, but the Dordogne. They're not because she wants just policemen - they're both deeply committed to own the trickswell-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of France. She is interested The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in just a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the car. Oh, and there was a golf ball too, which didn'one'' trick, t belong to the owner of the trick that The Great Fox stole from her fathercar. And she A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniper's hoping if she can find that trick then she will weapon. Was there going to be able an attempt to bring her missing father home.|isbn=1529501946kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?
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|authorisbn=Lissa Evans0241542405|title=WishedMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=When things contrive we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' to: in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she can't. She simply can't force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) herself to stay with leave the neighbourhood spinsterish old womansafety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Miss FileySadie, who visits regularly with her two children, for James and Matilda. Sadie's a week cardiac nurse and full of halfsound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-termbased support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, they're not looking forward to itso you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. For one thingHe's from Holding Hands, she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.}}{{Frontpage|author=Will Brooker|title=The Truth About Lisa Jewell|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of biscuitthe most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. They don't particularly take to Willard eitherNow meet Will Brooker, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the new kid next doortwo meeting each other, as well, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywhereshows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer 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, and struggling with the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, these should really be used for agrees. And this is the wishes of someone two generations older than them?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
|rating=4
|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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