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 =='''15 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 }} {{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.}}

|isbnauthor=0760373531Fiona Longmuir|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue FlandersLooking for Emily

|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

 =='''31 MARCH9 JUNE'''==

|isbn=B09DD1QJKJ152941363X|title=The ClubTo Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Ellery LloydMartin Walker

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''The party of Nobody knows what the year turned into the murder mystery of the decadetruth is any more.''

Just off Littlesea, in Essex Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis and a mile or so into much of the Blackwater Estuary, The Manor stood on an island. It was now Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as Island Home'JJ'), one the head of detectives for the départment of The Home Groupthe Dordogne. They're not just policemen - they's exclusive clubs re both deeply committed to the well-being and the opening weekend was going to be something special, even by Home's standardsprosperity of this most beautiful part of France. SpeedboatsThe discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, helicopters crashed and blacked-out SUVs were converging abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the islandbase, which was linked to they found in the mainland by a causeway that was inaccessible at high tidecar. Home's CEOOh, Ned Groom, is determined that everythingand there was a golf ball too, which didn''everything'' will be perfect. Home has 5761 members: just 150 t belong to the owner of them have received invites for the weekendcar. Those who have not been invited have not stopped ringing..A 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 certain direction?

|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

|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

 =='''28 APRIL21 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint1635864674|title=ElektraTomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy Howard

|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

=='''5 MAY23 JUNE'''==

|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

|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire1398508632|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde

|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