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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 }}
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|isbn=07603735311800901232|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the WorldStitched Up|author=Sue FlandersSteve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=CraftsDyslexia Friendly|summary=Just occasionally you encounter Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a book of knitting patterns which seems to meet your every needfashion designer. Right now, it's bitterly cold and we're Life in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socksrural village where she lived with her family was happy, scarvesif not prosperous, hats so when the smartly-dressed man and mittenswoman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. They have Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to look stylishHanoi. Only, keep me warm Hanh and be so cheerful that the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they make me feel betterwere to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. If that sounds like a lot to ask, have a look at ''Cozy Knits''You know those jeans you really wanted: it has thirty designs for those necessary items the ones with intricate embroidery and I don't think that there was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearing. beading on the legs? We start The ones with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the history of knitting. artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's not essential but it's a nice extraquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.
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|isbnauthor=B09DD1QJKJFiona Longmuir|title=The Club|author=Ellery LloydLooking for Emily|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The party of the year turned into the murder mystery of the decade.'' Just off Littlesea, in Essex and a mile or so into the Blackwater Estuary, The Manor stood on an island. It was now known as Island Home, one of The Home Group's exclusive clubs and the opening weekend was going to be something special, even by Home's standards. Speedboats, helicopters and blacked-out SUVs were converging on the island, which was linked to the mainland by a causeway that was inaccessible at high tide. Home's CEO, Ned Groom, is determined that everything, ''everything'' will be perfect. Home has 5761 members: just 150 of them have received invites for the weekend. Those who have not been invited have not stopped ringing...}}=='''7 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Justyn Edwards|title=The Great Fox Illusion|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is Meet Lily. She and her mother have just moved from a contest with city to a differencetiny seaside town called Edge, and everyone from said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. No singingIt turns out that she doesn't have any say in the matter, no dancingfor while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, this show she is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workunaware her neighbour, Sam, and who can attempt to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets to all of his tricks! Flick is determined just about to winmake herself known, and in a big way. But where does Emily come from? Well, but not Lily used that name because of what she wants to own 'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the tricks. She is interested most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in just a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'one. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum' trick, too, leaving the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And shetwo girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able to bring her missing father homebehind the intrigue...|isbn=15295019461839942754
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=='''9 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Lissa Evans152941363X|title=WishedTo Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=When things contrive to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old woman, Miss Filey, for a week of half-term, they're not looking forward to it. For one thing, she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand of biscuit. They don't particularly take to Willard either, Nobody knows what the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywhere. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candles, and manage to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come true. How will things change for a second time when they realise that, having used up three of them, these should really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jason Rohan|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access Denied|rating=3truth is any more.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Arun and Sam have had little to do with Donna, a girl at their school. But things immediately change at the start of this extended sprint of a novel, when she insists Arun's house has become the attention of plain-clothes coppers and that they should bunk off school to find out why. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really not Donna's idea of company, but he is the computer buff, Donna seems to know all the criminal ins and outs and survival skills, and Arun? Well, it's his lot to find out that all he based his family life on isn't true, and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved in something quite unexpected. But how can this disparate trio hope to best MI6, kidnappers, people able to keep the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much more?|isbn=1839943386}}
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|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin0241542405|title= Rebel SkiesMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Kurara has spent When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her entire life as a servant on the Midorihome for 1, a massive dining hall floating 214 days. She'd ''like'' to: in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to drink and make merry between their conquestscatch her train. However Then, when a man named Himura arrives she can't. She simply can't force herself to tell leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she is has a Crafter like himgood friend, Sadie, someone who visits regularly with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a power sought after all across the Empirecardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. He asks In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her to come with himcat, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has knownFred. Well, soon Kurara won Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known ll find Meredith as a shikigamiJIGSAWGIRL, and so you can guess what she is forced to flee out into the worlddoes in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime He's from Holding Hands, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.
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|author=Natalia Garcia FreireWill Brooker|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Truth About Lisa Jewell
|rating=5
|genre=Literary FictionBiography|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include TremendousMeet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], a delightone of the most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of the thousands of less successful authors I will agree quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using two meeting each other, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the expression words of her latest book she was reciting, and her being in a way I'm not familiar 'black lace mini-dress with. gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I have get to confess my ignorance attend), but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the Spanishrabbit-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation herehole that is Jewell's diverse output. From Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through a year in the little I have read (in translationpublished author's life, I don't read Spanish) there does seem working to be make a tendency towards success of the latest title, and struggling with the fantastical – next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the mystical realismresult. |isbn=08615419011529136024
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=='''21 JUNE'''==
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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 is. Then there are all the different types, not to mention the cultivars - and 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 supermarket ''next'' to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from the ones that have 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 taste.
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=='''23 JUNE'''==
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|author=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)
|title=Tasting Sunlight
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sally is a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants space, and for people to stop questioning her, tiptoeing around her, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who is in her forties and seems to live alone. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she is, giving her a room to sleep in, and the space to just be. As they work together on the farm, a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendship.
|isbn=1914585143
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1398508632
|title=The Wilderness Cure
|author=Mo Wilde
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It had been on the 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 pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.
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