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=='''7 APRIL2 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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|authorisbn=Justyn Edwards1800901232|title=The Great Fox IllusionStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a contest fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with a difference. No singingher family was happy, no dancing, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workif not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and who can attempt woman came to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets village to all of his tricks! Flick is determined offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to winbe missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, but Hanh and the other girls were not because she wants going to own the tricks. She is interested work in just ''one'' tricka shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the trick ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that The Great Fox stole from her father. And shefelt so soft when you touched them? It's hoping if she can find quite possible that trick then she will be able to bring Hanh and her missing father homeco-workers made them.|isbn=1529501946
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|author=Lissa EvansFiona Longmuir|title=WishedLooking for Emily|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When things contrive to force Ed Meet Lily. She and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) her mother have just moved from a city to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old woman, Miss Filey, for a week of half-termtiny seaside town called Edge, they're not looking forward and everyone from said mother to ither teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. For one thing, It turns out that she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand of biscuit. They dondoesn't particularly take to Willard either, have any say in 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 candlesmatter, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come true. How will things change for a second time while pretending when they realise phoning home that, having used up three of them, these should really be used for the wishes of she was with someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jason Rohan|title=S.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 novelcalled Emily, 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 – unaware her neighbour, Sam is really not Donna's idea of company, but he is the computer buff, Donna seems just about to know all the criminal ins and outs and survival skillsmake herself known, and Arunin a big way. But where does Emily come from? Well, it's his lot to find out Lily used that all he based his family life on isnname because of what she't trued just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the most mundane objects, and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved in something quite unexpected. But how can this disparate trio hope to best MI6some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, kidnappers, people able to keep the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much more?|isbn=1839943386}}=='''14 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529337968|title=In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as in a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is born. Sheplace calling itself 'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. The hardest part Museum of the job will be to persuade people that the services she offers really are free and that they donEmily't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some Sam is completely unaware of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.}}==this 'museum''28 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Elektra|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells , too, leaving the story of three women who live two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greeceintrigue. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra 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 and the most extreme furies.|isbn=14722739151839942754
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=='''9 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=1787634906152941363X|title=No Less the DevilTo Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Stuart MacBrideMartin Walker
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're in Oldcastle and Malcolm 'Nobody knows what the truth is in troubleany more. He's in an abandoned house ' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley and heworks closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 's being threatened by two young peopleJJ'), the head of detectives for the départment of the Dordogne. One is Alegra (weThey'll soon learn that shere not just policemen - they's Allegra Deanre both deeply committed to the well-Edwards) being and Hugoprosperity of this most beautiful part of France. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been for homeless peoplethe strange bullet, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in it so that she the car. Oh, and Hugo could find out where he there was sleeping. It wona golf ball too, which didn't be long before belong to the police realise that Malcolm was one owner of their own: not many other people are the car. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniper's weapon. Was there going to have be an attempt to kill someone, or were the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.detectives being pushed in a certain direction?
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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'''==
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.
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|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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