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=='''12 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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|isbn=13985075041800901232|title=Cold ReckoningStitched Up|author=Russ ThomasSteve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeDyslexia Friendly|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide 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 for woman came to the last sixteen years he's been searching for evidence village to prove that he's right. When offer Hahn a frozen body job in Hanoi it was found in Damflask Reservoir, there an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was a link back on the mini-bus to a cold case from 2002Hanoi. There didn't immediately seem Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses work in a link 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 case his father was investigating before he died. Above all thereartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's a growing sense quite possible that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the openHanh and her co-workers made them. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?
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|author=Caryl Lewis and George ErmosFiona Longmuir|title=SeedLooking for Emily
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his life, and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassmentsMeet Lily. His grandfather runs an allotment, She and manages her mother have just moved from a city to stink the entire a tiny seaside town out called Edge, and everyone from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring said mother to fertilise his vegetablesher teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. His mother somehow combines It turns out that she doesn't have any say in the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder – matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she seems is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is just about to do nothing make herself known, and hasnin a big way. But where does Emily come from? Well, Lily used that name because of what she't left d just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the building most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in years she has still managed to fill it to the brim with junka place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'. What MartySam is completely unaware of this 's classmates donmuseum't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looks, with his one school uniform built from lost property. We see him as once again too, leaving the council threaten her and him with eviction, and as he celebrates his birthday with two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the gift from his grandfather of a solitary plant seedintrigue...|isbn=15290776641839942754
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=='''9 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron152941363X|title=Our SisterTo Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, AgainChief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora dies, her family struggle to find a way forward'Nobody knows what the truth is any more. In particular'' 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'), Isla's mum who can’t seem to be able to let her daughter gothe head of detectives for the départment of the Dordogne. When Isla passes her mum They's details onto a support group she finds online, she thinks re not just policemen - they might be able 're both deeply committed to helpthe well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of France. But actually The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it turns out they are part of an experimental company who offer not been for the family strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the chance to have Flora back againbase, which they found in robot formthe car. But this won Oh, and there was a golf ball too, which didn't just belong to the owner of the car. A golf bag would be a look-good place to hide a-like. They use all of Florasniper's online history, and interviews with family and friendsweapon. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possible. But what will it really mean for or were the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at alldetectives being pushed in a certain direction?|isbn=1788953916
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|isbn=07112662040241542405|title=The Secret Life of BirdsMeredith Alone|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Claire Alexander|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasureWhen 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: I sit in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and watch the vast numbers of birds she's even considered which visit our garden on a daily basisshoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. An hour Then, she can pass without my noticing't. IShe simply can've established which species feed from the ground, which pop t force herself to leave the feeders for safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a quick snatch of some food good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and who settles in for Matilda. Sadie's a good munch but I wish I cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was more knowledgeableSadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. It would have been wonderful if, Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as a childJIGSAWGIRL, Iso you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He'd had access to s from Holding Hands, a book charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith''The Secret Life of Birds''s. So – what is it?
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|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Will Brooker|title=Little DrummerThe Truth About Lisa Jewell|rating=35|genre=CrimeBiography|summary=Part Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the Oslo Detectives seriesmost successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, this crime story is a mixture one of the thousands of police procedural and thrillerless successful authors I quite confidently never have read. Beginning This book starts with the death of a young woman in a carparktwo meeting each other, as well, that looks very much like an overdoseand shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it unravels into a far-reaching investigation seems, of murderher anecdote about cup cakes, fraudthe words of her latest book she was reciting, and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolichher being in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who end up working separately on has swallowed Roland Barthes, 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'''==
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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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