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 =='''2 JUNE9 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=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 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 mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh 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.}}
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|author=Fiona LongmuirTom Percival|title=Looking for EmilyThe Wrong Shoes
|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 everyone from said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out that she doesnWill't have any say in the matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she s life is unaware her neighbourdifficult, Sam, is just about to make herself known, and in a big waymultitude of ways. But where does Emily come from? Well, Lily used that name He is bullied because of what shehe has 'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the 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 'museumwrong shoes', too, leaving he has the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding whatwrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn's behind t have enough money for even the intrigue...|isbn=1839942754}}{{Frontpage|author=John Henry Phillips|title=The Search|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Archaeology cannot be child's playmost basic of things like food, when youand his dad can're scraping in t work because he lost his job at the dirt looking to find what you can findcollege, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be was working a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is cash-in-hand job on a case of the latter, as our author promises to locate the topic of the titular searchbuilding site and had an accident. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – Throw into that mix the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – ohfact that his mum and dad are separated, and itWill's underwaterlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, when he cannot divestill has a tiny amount of hope. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France He is good at art, our author has promised and clings to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandymoments of joy when he is drawing, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect feel like a memorial to everyone else aboard, light at the vast majority end of whom perisheda long, dark tunnel. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=14721461821398527122
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 =='''9 JUNE23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=152941363XOnyi Nwabineli|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''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 départment of the Dordogne. They're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed Allow Me to the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of France. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and 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 base, which they found in the car. Oh, and there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner of the car. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniper's weapon. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241542405|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire AlexanderIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs itAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and increasingly popular presence on social media, where sheposted every step of Anuri's not left her home childhood for 1sponsorships and influencer deals and,214 daysbasically, monetary gain. She'd ''like'' to: Now Anuri is in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on her twenties and she's even considered which shoes is slowly trying to wear if she's going regain her confidence and to catch get her train. Thenlife back, she can't. She simply can't force herself suing her step-mother to leave take down the safety of content about her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friendAnuri is battling alcoholism, Sadie, who visits regularly with failing to start her two childrenPhD, James undergoing therapy and Matildasecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. SadieMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common senseonline empire. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith Can she save her catsister, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in perhaps herself and her relationship with her spare father at the same time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Will BrookerStuart Douglas|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]]During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', one of leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one dead body of a woman on the thousands edge of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer togethera reservoir. The meeting was some unspecified combination, police seem happy to assign it seemsas an accidental death, of her anecdote but something about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was recitingwhole thing bothers Lowe, and her being in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at he enlists the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, help of a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthesfellow actor, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewell's diverse outputJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Brooker decides he'd like nothing They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more than to follow her through possible murders and, seemingly, a year in the published author's life, working link to make a success of death during the latest title, and struggling with the next in lineSecond World War. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. But is there really a link between the deaths? And this will they manage to uncover who is the result.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=15291360241803368209
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 =='''21 6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1635864674Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Tomato LoveDungeon Runners: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy HowardHero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=CookeryConfident Readers|summary=''Think Meet Kit. Like most of it as no-whining dining.'' 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 in his world, it seems, he is. Then there are all an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the different typessport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, not and race to mention the cultivars - exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't lovealong the way. I'd argue with her there - I have no affection Unfortunately for Kit, the ones you find in the supermarket only thing he''next'' to s seen of the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from latest race on the ones inn TV equivalent is that have obviously just one team has been grown for profitretired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. PersonallyPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, Ihe has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'd prefer ll enter as a tin of tomatoes to those team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free- zone have in actually managing that, and Howard makes good use of these. She's not at all precious if you get the taste.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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 =='''23 13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)1635866847|title=Tasting SunlightThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1398508632
|title=The Wilderness Cure
|author=Mo Wilde
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It had been on 's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the cards book for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild foodyou. Before I started reading ''The end of NovemberLavender Companion'', particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not I visited the best time to start, in author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a world where slice of chocolate cake on the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit homepage. I don't eat cakes and a pandemicdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Wilde had (There's a few advantages: recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the area around her book and I was told to make a known habitat with a variety mess of terrainsit. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. She had electricity which allowed her You get to run a fridge, freezer and dehydratorfold down the corners of pages. She had You suspect that smears of butter would not be a car - and fuelproblem. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to I ''liveloved'' wild just to live off its producethis book already.
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=='''18 AUGUST4 JULY'''==
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|author= Kit De WaalMax Boucherat|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad/ They may not mean to, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses We meet Lori on this idea of parenthood and the bonds that bind family. This book is a memoir focussing on first evening she's got the author’s formative years as a teenager living house to herself – no neighbour to pop in a lower class area of Birmingham. Her father is from St. Kitts in the Caribbean and her , babysitter poorly, mother is at work, just an Irish woman ostracized by avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her family for becoming pregnant by and marrying a black manlonesome. This intersectionality plays What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a large role in the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her raceblanket fort, her class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with care, loveshe has one main intention, and the kind of anger only a child can express that is to log on to their parents.|isbn=1472284836}}{{Frontpage|author=David Lagercrantz|title=Dark Music|rating=3|genre=ThrillerVoxminer, Crime|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonderworld-mind at the heart of what little investigating is going onbuilding, but there critter-collecting game that is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthhit in Lori's world. For one, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD. SheBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put t find herself entirely on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of old, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the matchher own, and just outside the stadiumthen she finds something even more spooky. Beppe, For the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to admit anything, through days and weeks enter shows signs of interrogationtampering. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes malevolent eyes spark up withon her phone screen, and her safe place in the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress game has been doctored that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it allwell, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation where is a shambles. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may be, she manages girl to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt...turn?|isbn=15294131920008666482
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