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=='''14 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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|isbn=15293379681800901232|title=In Place of FearStitched Up|author=Catriona McPhersonSteve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)Dyslexia Friendly|summary=It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to start work as be a qualified medical almoner fashion designer. Life in the following morning 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 day that the NHS is bornmini-bus to Hanoi. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar Only, Hanh and Dr Strasser the other girls were not going to work in their GP surgery and her job will be a shop, they were to help patients work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with those non-medical problems which affect their health. intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The hardest part of ones with the job will be to persuade people that the services she offers really are free artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that they don't have to do anything to qualify for felt so soft when you touched them. ? Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of It's quite possible that Hanh and her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummatedco-workers made them.
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|isbnauthor=303091657XFiona Longmuir|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonLooking for Emily
|rating=5
|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=Boards must act Meet Lily. She and her mother have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edge, and everyone from said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out that she doesn't have any say in the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure matter, for while pretending when phoning home that they are well-managed she was with someone called Emily, she is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is just about to make herself known, and financially securein a big way. This might seem obvious but But where does Emily come from? Well, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a series mysterious collection of disasters - the most mundane objects, in some of which have resulted converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in death or the collapse a place calling itself 'The Museum of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingEmily'. Where were they? Occasionally the boards were Sam is completely unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eyethis 'museum', too, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminality. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, 's behind the South Sea Bubble and even tulip maniaintrigue.. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very little.|isbn=1839942754
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=='''28 APRIL9 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint152941363X|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 Greece. Cassandra, ClytemnestraTo Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, and Elektra are all bit players in the story Chief 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=1472273915}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787634906|title=No Less the DevilPolice 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 delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using one of the expression in a way most successful British authors I'm not familiar withve never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereread. From This book starts with the little I have read (in translationtwo meeting each other, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism. |isbn=0861541901}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrice Lawrence|title=Needle|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Brave. Charleneas well, and shows how 2021 drew the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters two closer and readers bothcloser together. Kicked out The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of multiple homes and schoolsher anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book shewas reciting, and her being in a ''s fostering black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a pleasant yoga tutorget-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), Anniebut pulled Brooker, and a professor of cultural studies who has taken up residence in her son Blakeswallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewell's old room while diverse output. Brooker decides he's at uni. Such d like nothing more than to follow her through a tempestuous personality may be year in need of the published author's life, working to make a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part success of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitterlatest title, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact struggling with no morethe next in line. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective Jewell, and then force people to give her two days off schooldue diligence appropriately done, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorantagrees. And then... well, what exactly happens this is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be..the result.|isbn=18009010111529136024
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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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