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=='''28 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=Jennifer Saint1800901232|title=ElektraStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells 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 story of three women who live 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 heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greecemini-bus to Hanoi. Cassandra Only, ClytemnestraHanh 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Fiona Longmuir|title=Looking for Emily|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Lily. She and her mother have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edge, and Elektra everyone from said mother to her teacher are all bit players in the story making demands of the Trojan WarLily that she make new friends. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us It turns out that often the silent women she doesn't have any say in the most compelling stories matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is just about to make herself known, and in a big way. But where does Emily come from? Well, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the most extreme furiesmundane objects, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum', too, leaving the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the intrigue...|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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|isbn=01927792300241542405|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of GermsMeredith Alone|author=Isabel ThomasClaire Alexander|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' to: in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she'Germss even considered which shoes to wear if she' seems s going to have become a catch-all word her train. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to cover anything unpleasant which has leave the potential to make you illsafety of her home. In the first book in what looks to be She's fortunate that she has a very promising new seriesgood friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, OUP James and Isabel Thomas have provided Matilda. Sadie's a clear cardiac nurse and accessible introduction to the world full of germssound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. We get Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over she does in her spare time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed Then Tom McDermott arrives. He'speak like s from Holding Hands, a scientist' charity which explains some of the trickiest concepts and yousupports people with problems such as Meredith'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselvess.
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|author= Ann Sei LinWill Brooker|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent 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 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 matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Truth About Lisa Jewell
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|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 of multiple homes and schoolsThe meeting was some unspecified combination, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutorit seems, Annie, and has taken up residence in of her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps thinkanecdote about cup cakes, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full words of love for her younger sister – a younger sister latest book she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detectivewas reciting, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=1800901011}} ==being in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'12 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|(certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author=Sophie Cameron|title=Our Sisterevents I get to attend), Again|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora diesbut pulled Brooker, her family struggle to find a way forward. In particularprofessor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, Isladown the rabbit-hole that is Jewell's mum who can’t seem to be able diverse output. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to let follow her daughter go. When Isla passes her mumthrough a year in the published author's details onto a support group she finds onlinelife, she thinks they might be able working to help. But actually, it turns out they are part make a success of an experimental company who offer the family latest title, and struggling with the chance to have Flora back again, next in robot formline. But this won't just be a look-a-like. They use all of Flora's online history Jewell, and interviews with family and friendsdue diligence appropriately done, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possibleagrees. But what will it really mean for the family, to have Flora back? And this is it really Flora at all?the result.|isbn=17889539161529136024
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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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