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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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|author=Vanda SymonFiona Longmuir|title=FacelessLooking for Emily|rating=45|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=In this book told Meet Lily. She and her mother have just moved from multiple viewpointsa city to a tiny seaside town called Edge, several troubled people and everyone from said mother to her teacher are thrown into the same story thanks to just one mis-stepmaking demands of Lily that she make new friends. Set It turns out that she doesn't have any say in New Zealand, the first of our characters is Bradleymatter, a middle aged man struggling for while pretending when phoning home that she was with an overbearing bosssomeone called Emily, a weighty mortgageshe is unaware her neighbour, and what he feels is an unappreciative wife. Then there’s BillySam, a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes in order just about to pay for the materials she needs. And then we have Maxmake herself known, who is also living on the streets and who keeps an eye on Billyin a big way. He is But where does Emily come from? Well, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a shell mysterious collection of the most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind a manmost unassuming door, barely able to take any care in a place calling itself 'The Museum of himself, and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he Emily'. Sam is now. One nightcompletely unaware of this 'museum', Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxietytoo, driving down leaving the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the street looking for a prostituteintrigue.. He picks up Billy, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from the person he thought he was into someone very different.|isbn=19145850461839942754
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=='''31 MARCH9 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|isbn=B09DD1QJKJ152941363X|title=The ClubTo Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Ellery LloydMartin Walker
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''The party of Nobody knows what the year turned into the murder mystery of the decadetruth is any more.''
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|authorisbn=Lissa Evans0241542405|title=WishedMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=When things contrive to force Ed we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old woman, Miss Filey, she's not left her home for a week of half-term1, they214 days. She'd ''like''re not looking forward to it. For one thing: in fact, she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand of biscuitso nearly does. They donHer outdoor clothes are on and she't particularly take s even considered which shoes to Willard either, the new kid next door, who seems wear if she's going to ebulliently take over everything and everywherecatch her train. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candlesThen, and manage to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come trueshe can't. How will things change for a second time when they realise that, having used up three of them, these should really be used for She simply can't force herself to leave the wishes safety of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jason Rohan|title=Sher home.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access Denied|rating=3.5|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 She's house fortunate that she 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 companya good friend, but he is the computer buffSadie, Donna seems to know all the criminal ins and outs and survival skillswho visits regularly with her two children, James and Arun? Well, itMatilda. Sadie's his lot to find out that all he based his family life on isn't true, a cardiac nurse and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved in something quite unexpectedfull of sound common sense. But how can this disparate trio hope to best MI6In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, kidnappers, people able to keep the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much more?|isbn=1839943386}} =='''28 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Elektra|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient GreeceFred. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra Groceries are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories online deliveries and the most extreme furies.|isbn=1472273915}} ==there's also an internet-based support group where you''5 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life ll find Meredith as a servant on the MidoriJIGSAWGIRL, a massive dining hall floating so you can guess what she does in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquestsher spare time. However, when a man named Himura Then Tom McDermott arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matters from Holding Hands, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known charity which supports people with problems such as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the worldMeredith's. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590
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{{Frontpage
|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'''==
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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