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=='''5 MAY2 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=Natalia Garcia Freire1800901232|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Literary FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a delightfashion designer. I will agree 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 first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'village to offer Hahn a delight' is perhaps using job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the expression other girls were not going to work in a way I'm not familiar 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? I have to confess my ignorance of The ones with the Spanishartfully-language literary tradition placed rips and distressed seams that felt so forgive my generalisation heresoft 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. From the little I She and her mother have read (in translationjust moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edge, I donand everyone from said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out that she doesn't read Spanish) there have any say in the 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 seem to be Emily come from? Well, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a tendency towards mysterious collection of the fantastical – most mundane 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 mystical realismintrigue... |isbn=08615419011839942754
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=='''12 MAY9 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|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 and for the last sixteen years he's been searching for evidence to prove that he's rightNobody knows what the truth is any more. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back to a cold case from 2002. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection ' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley and works closely with DI Richard TylerCommissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to JJ'), the case his father was investigating before he died. Above all there's a growing sense that head of detectives for the criminality départment of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the openDordogne. Perhaps Tyler is going They're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed to get the answers he needs?}}{{Frontpage|author=Caryl Lewis well-being and George Ermos|title=Seed|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his life, and they both might be thought prosperity of this most beautiful part of as complete embarrassmentsFrance. His grandfather runs The discovery of an allotmentold, stolen Peugeot, crashed and manages to stink abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the entire town out from it when he douses it base, which they found in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetablesthe car. His mother somehow combines the dual roles of housebound failure Oh, and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing and hasnthere was a golf ball too, which didn't left belong to the building in years she has still managed to fill it to owner of the brim with junkcar. What Marty A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniper's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines weapon. Was there going to be an attempt to from how poor Marty always lookskill someone, with his one school uniform built from lost property. We see him as once again or were the council threaten her and him with eviction, and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather of detectives being pushed in a solitary plant seed.|isbn=1529077664certain direction?
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|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron0241542405|title=Our Sister, AgainMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=After IslaWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's older sister Flora diesWednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1, her family struggle 214 days. She'd ''like'' to find a way forward: in fact, she so nearly does. In particular, Isla Her outdoor clothes are on and she's mum who can’t seem even considered which shoes to be able wear if she's going to let catch her daughter gotrain. Then, she can't. When Isla passes She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of her mumhome. She's details onto fortunate that she has a support group she finds onlinegood friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, she thinks they might be able to helpJames and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. But actually In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, it turns out they Fred. Groceries are part of online deliveries and there's also an experimental company who offer the family the chance to have Flora back againinternet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in robot formher spare time. But this won't just be a look-a-like Then Tom McDermott arrives. They use all of Flora He's online historyfrom Holding Hands, and interviews a charity which supports people with family and friends, and through this data they will recreate Flora problems such as closely as possibleMeredith's. But what will it really mean for the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916
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{{Frontpage
|isbnauthor=0711266204Will Brooker|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Truth About Lisa Jewell
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionBiography|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasureMeet [[:Category: I sit and watch Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. most successful British authors I've established which species feed from the groundnever knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, which pop to one of the feeders for a quick snatch thousands of some food and who settles in for a good munch but less successful authors I wish I was more knowledgeablequite confidently never have read. It would have been wonderful ifThis book starts with the two meeting each other, as a childwell, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. So – what is The meeting was some unspecified combination, it?}} ==seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was reciting, and her being in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'26 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|title=Little Drummer|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is certainly a mixture of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with get-up never commonly worn at the death of a young woman in a carparkauthor events I get to attend), that looks very much like an overdosebut pulled Brooker, it unravels into a far-reaching investigation professor of murdercultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, fraud, and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich, who end up working separately on down the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich rabbit-hole that is led Jewell's diverse output. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to Africa as they follow her through a year in the twists and turns published author's life, working to make a success of the investigation. Gunnarstranda latest title, and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down struggling with the truth next in increasingly difficultline. Jewell, frustrating circumstancesdue diligence appropriately done, trying hard to uncover agrees. And this is the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going onresult.|isbn=19145851271529136024
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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'''==
{{Frontpage
|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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