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 =='''2 JUNE23 MAY'''=={{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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|isbnauthor=1800901232Onyi Nwabineli|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve ColeAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyGeneral Fiction|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted Anuri spent her childhood on display to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she lived with her family was happyposted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, if not prosperousbasically, so when the smartly-dressed man monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and woman came she is slowly trying to the village regain her confidence and to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not get her life back, suing her step-mother to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on take down the mini-bus to Hanoicontent about her. OnlyAnuri is battling alcoholism, Hanh and the other girls were not going failing to work in a shopstart her PhD, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery undergoing therapy and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips secretly abusing people online and distressed seams that felt receiving money from them for doing so soft when you touched them? . ItMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's quite possible that Hanh online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her co-workers made them.relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Fiona LongmuirB0CYV674G2|title=Looking for EmilySwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet LilyIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. She A man, covered in mud and blood - and her mother have just moved from a city to carrying a tiny seaside town called Edgeknife, and everyone from said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out comes into the police station shouting that she doesnhe hasn't have any say in killed the man. A body at the matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she is unaware her neighbour, Sam, bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just about to make herself known, and in a big way. But where does Emily come back from? Wellhis honeymoon, Lily used that name because which coincided with the birth of what shehis daughter Samantha. You would think he'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of be grateful for an easy answer but the most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself words 'perverse' and 'The Museum of EmilyJohn Tanner'were made for each other. Sam is completely unaware He's sleep-deprived to the point of this falling asleep at work but he'museum', too, leaving the two girls s determined to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding whatkeep going - probably because he can's behind the intriguet get any sleep at home...|isbn=1839942754
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 =='''9 4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=152941363XStuart Douglas|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Nobody knows what the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley Floggit and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as Leggit'JJ'), leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the head dead body of detectives for a woman on the départment edge of the Dordognea reservoir. They're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed The police seem happy to the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of France. The discovery of assign it as an oldaccidental death, stolen Peugeotbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, crashed and abandoned in he enlists the help of a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been for the strange bulletfellow actor, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. OhThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and there was , seemingly, a golf ball too, which didn't belong link to death during the owner of the carSecond World War. A golf bag would be But is there really a good place to hide a sniper's weapon. link between the deaths? Was there going And will they manage to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain directionuncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=0241542405Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire AlexanderDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and she's not left her home for 1healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes,214 days. She'd ''like'' and race to: in factthe exit, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her trainthe points they grant you along the way. ThenUnfortunately for Kit, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of her home. Sheonly thing he's fortunate seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that she one team has a good friend, Sadiebeen retired, who visits regularly with her two childreneaten, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full new trio of sound common sensequestors is needed. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her catPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and there's also an internet-based support group where youstumbled into declaring he'll find Meredith enter as JIGSAWGIRLa team. What chance does this friendless, so you can guess what she does muscle-free-zone have in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Handsactually managing that, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Will Brooker1635866847|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyLifestyle|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]]It's strange, one of the most successful British authors Ithings that make you ''immediately''ve never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of feel that this is the thousands 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 togetherfor you. Before I started reading ''The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakesLavender Companion'', I visited the words of her latest book she was reciting, author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and her being in a there''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly s a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, picture of a professor slice of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down chocolate cake on the rabbithomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -hole but I wanted that is Jewell's diverse outputcake viscerally. Brooker decides he(There'd like nothing more than to follow her through s a year recipe in the published authorbook, which I's life, working m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a success mess of it. Notes in the latest title, and struggling with margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the next in linecorners of pages. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agreesYou suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. And I ''loved'' this is the resultbook already.|isbn=1529136024
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=='''21 JUNE4 JULY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1635864674Max Boucherat|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy HowardThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryConfident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she''Think of it as s got the house to herself – noneighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-whining diningbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome.'' We know it's What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that so many people get confused just goes is to log on to show how versatile Voxminer, the tomato world-building, critter-collecting game that isa hit in Lori's world. Then there are all the different typesBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, not to mention and then she finds something even more spooky. For the cultivars - server she and her bestie and you begin nobody else should be able to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't loveenter shows signs of tampering. I'd argue with When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her there - I have no affection for the ones you find safe place in the supermarket ''next'' to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from the ones that have obviously just game has been grown for profit. Personallydoctored – well, I'd prefer where is a tin of tomatoes girl to those - and Howard makes good use of these. She's not at all precious if you get the taste.turn?|isbn=0008666482
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=='''23 JUNE'''==
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|author=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)Jenny Lecoat|title=Tasting SunlightBeyond Summerland|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 Jean lives on some farmland Jersey with a woman called Liss who is in her forties and seems to live alonemother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she isDuring the war, giving her Jean's father was arrested for listening to a room to sleep inbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and the space to just beher mother waiting for years for news of him. As they work together on the farmBritish finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, a closeness develops between themand the war is finally over, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendshiptheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him.|isbn=1914585143}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It had been on But will the cards for truth come as a while but relief, or will it was raise further questions around what else happened during the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. war? The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland Who was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where informer who told the Nazis about the normal sores had radio? And what other secrets have been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: kept throughout 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.occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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