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 =='''2 JUNE23 MAY'''==
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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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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=John Henry PhillipsStuart Douglas|title=The SearchLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=Archaeology cannot be childDuring location filming for his 1970's playsitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', when you're scraping in leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be dead body of a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of woman on the latter, as our author promises to locate the topic edge of the titular searcha reservoir. And he really hasn't made The police seem happy to assign it easy for himself – the search area is a wide oneas an accidental death, but something about the target might not exist any more – ohwhole thing bothers Lowe, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to enlists the help of a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to Francefellow actor, our author has promised John Le Breton to find help him investigate matters further. They travel across the landing craft that delivered him to Normandycountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and that he was lucky , seemingly, a link to survive when it sank from beneath himdeath during the Second World War. The secondary aim But is to erect there really a memorial to everyone else aboard, link between the vast majority of whom perished. Who else would make such promises deaths? And will they manage to someone in uncover who is responsible before more people lose their ninetieslives?|isbn=14721461821803368209
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 =='''9 6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=152941363XKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=''Nobody knows what Meet Kit. Like most of the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the police chief for St Denis and much sport where a team of the Vézère valley warrior, mage and works closely with Commissaire Jeanhealer enter specially prepared, century-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the head of detectives for treasure or the départment of big bad and the Dordogne. They're not just policemen - points they're both deeply committed to grant you along the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Franceway. The discovery of an oldUnfortunately for Kit, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldnthe only thing he't normally have worried them so much had it not been for s seen of the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped latest race on the baseinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, which they found in the car. Oheaten, and there was a golf ball toonew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, which didn't belong he has taken to the owner goading from the token bully of the car. A golf bag would be a good place to hide his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a sniper's weaponteam. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someoneWhat chance does this friendless, or were the detectives being pushed muscle-free-zone have in a certain directionactually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=02415424051635866847|title=Meredith AloneThe Lavender Companion|author=Claire AlexanderJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs itIt's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and shestrange, the things that make you ''immediately''s not left her home feel that this is the book for 1,214 daysyou. SheBefore I started reading 'd 'The Lavender Companion'like', I visited the author' tos [https: in fact, she so nearly does//www.pinelavenderfarm. Her outdoor clothes are on com/ website] and shethere's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her traina picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Then, she canI don'teat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of her home. She(There's fortunate that she has a good friendrecipe in the book, Sadie, who visits regularly which I'm avoiding with her two children, James some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and Matilda. Sadie's I was told to make a cardiac nurse and full mess of sound common senseit. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, FredNotes in the margins are sanctioned. 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 her spare timeYou get to fold down the corners of pages. Then Tom McDermott arrivesYou suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. HeI ''loved's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'sthis book already.
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Will BrookerMax Boucherat|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyConfident Readers|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of We meet Lori on the most successful British authors Ifirst evening she've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of s got the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each otherhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, as wellbabysitter poorly, and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. The meeting was some unspecified combinationmother at work, it seemsjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, of on her anecdote about cup cakeslonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, the words of her latest book she was recitinghas one main intention, and her being in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get that is to log on to attend)Voxminer, but pulled Brookerthe world-building, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbitcritter-hole collecting game that is Jewella hit in Lori's diverse outputworld. Brooker decides heBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'd like nothing t find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more than to follow spooky. For the server she and her through a year in the published author's life, working bestie and nobody else should be able to make a success enter shows signs of the latest titletampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and struggling with her safe place in the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately donegame has been doctored – well, agrees. And this where is the result.a girl to turn?|isbn=15291360240008666482
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=='''21 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1635864674Jenny Lecoat|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy HowardBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=Cookery
|summary=''Think 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 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 Jean lives on some farmland Jersey 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 mother where they work together on are celebrating the farm, a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendship.|isbn=1914585143}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It had been on end of 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 foodoccupation. The end of NovemberDuring the war, particularly in Central Scotland Jean's father was perhaps not the best time arrested for listening to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate changebanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, Brexit leaving Jean and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety mother waiting for years for news of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and dehydratorhim. 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.}} =='''18 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author= Kit De Waal|title= Without Warning and Only Sometimes|rating= 4|genre= Autobiography|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you upthe British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, your mum and dad/ They may not mean tothe war is finally over, but their hopes rise that they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea will finally learn what became of parenthood and the bonds that bind familyhim. This book is a memoir focussing on But will the author’s formative years truth come as a teenager living in a lower class area of Birmingham. Her father is from St. Kitts in relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Caribbean and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by and marrying a black man. This intersectionality plays a large role in Nazis about the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her race, her class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with care, love, and radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the kind of anger only a child can express to their parents.occupation?|isbn=14722848361846976537
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