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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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|isbn=14059409801800901232|title=The BirdcageStitched Up|author=Eve Chase|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's the 7th of January 2019 and we know that a body has been pulled out of the sea at Zennor in Cornwall. We don't know whose body it is. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artist. The girls are actually ''half''-sisters and their dates of birth are embarrassingly close. Finch was known for his fecundity, if not for his fidelity. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at the time of the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and it's left her very wary of her sisters.}}{{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 Greece. 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=1472273915}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787634906|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBride|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=We're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in trouble. He's in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young people. One is Alegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugo. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.}}=='''5 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel ThomasSteve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary='Germs' seems Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to have become be a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you illfashion designer. In Life in the first book in what looks to be a very promising new seriesrural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, OUP so when the smartly-dressed man and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction woman came to the world of germs. We get village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over timeopportunity not to be missed. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts Some money changed hands and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.}}{{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant Hanh was on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come mini-bus to drink and make merry between their conquestsHanoi. However Only, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with Hanh and the power other girls were not going to form paper into whatever she desires – work in a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with himshop, they were to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has knownwork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in You know those jeans you really wanted: the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, ones with intricate embroidery and she is forced to flee out into beading on the world. She joins Himura aboard legs? The ones with the Orihime, a skyartfully-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590her co-workers made them.
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|author=Natalia Garcia FreireFiona Longmuir|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsLooking for Emily
|rating=5
|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= Early comments on this debut novel Meet Lily. She and her mother have just moved from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'city to a delight' is perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. I have tiny seaside town called Edge, and everyone from said mother to confess my ignorance her teacher are making demands of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereLily that she make new friends. From the little I It turns out that she doesn't have read (any say in translationthe matter, 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. Charlenefor while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she is unaware her neighbour, Sam, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people just about to likemake herself known, characters and readers bothin a big way. Kicked out But where does Emily come from? Well, Lily used that name because of multiple homes and schools, what she's fostering with d just stumbled into – a pleasant yoga tutormysterious collection of the most mundane objects, Anniein some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, and has taken up residence in her son Blakea place calling itself 's old room while heThe Museum of Emily's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need Sam is completely unaware of a comfort blanketthis 'museum', you might perhaps thinktoo, and leaving the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister shetwo girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, 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 bebehind the intrigue...|isbn=18009010111839942754
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=='''12 MAY9 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=1398507504152941363X|title=Cold ReckoningTo Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Russ ThomasMartin Walker
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide ''Nobody knows what the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ'), the head of detectives for the last sixteen years hedépartment of the Dordogne. They're not just policemen - they's been searching for evidence re both deeply committed to prove that he's rightthe well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of France. When The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a frozen body was ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in Damflask Reservoirthe car. Oh, and there was a link back to a cold case from 2002. There golf ball too, which didn't immediately seem belong to the owner of the car. A golf bag would be any connection with DI Richard Tylera good place to hide a sniper's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case his father was investigating before he diedweapon. Above all Was there's a growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the open. Perhaps Tyler is going an attempt to get kill someone, or were the answers he needsdetectives being pushed in a certain direction?
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|authorisbn=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos0241542405|title=SeedMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Marty has two parental figures 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 his lifefact, and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassmentsshe so nearly does. His grandfather runs an allotment, Her outdoor clothes are on and manages she's even considered which shoes to stink the entire town out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring wear if she's going to fertilise his vegetablescatch her train. His mother somehow combines the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder – while Then, she seems to do nothing and hasncan't. She simply can't left force herself to leave the building in years safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has still managed to fill it to the brim a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with junkher two children, James and Matilda. What Marty Sadie's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looks, with his one school uniform built from lost propertya cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. We see him as once again the council threaten In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her and him with evictioncat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as he celebrates his birthday with the gift JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from his grandfather of Holding Hands, a solitary plant seedcharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|isbn=1529077664
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|author=Sophie CameronWill Brooker|title=Our Sister, AgainThe Truth About Lisa Jewell|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersBiography|summary=After IslaMeet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors I's older sister Flora diesve never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, her family struggle to find a way forwardone of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. In particular This book starts with the two meeting each other, Isla's mum who can’t seem to be able to let her daughter go. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds onlineas well, she thinks they might be able to helpand shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. But actually The meeting was some unspecified combination, it turns out they are part seems, of an experimental company who offer her anecdote about cup cakes, the family the chance to have Flora back againwords of her latest book she was reciting, and her being in robot form. But this wona ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade''t just be (certainly a lookget-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, aprofessor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewell's diverse output. Brooker decides he'd like. They use all of Floranothing more than to follow her through a year in the published author's online historylife, working to make a success of the latest title, and interviews struggling with family and friendsthe next in line. Jewell, due 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.
|isbn=1914585143
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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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