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 =='''2 JUNE23 MAY'''==
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|author=Fiona LongmuirOnyi Nwabineli|title=Looking for EmilyAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Lily. She and Anuri spent her mother have just moved from a city childhood on display to a tiny seaside town called Edgethe world, and everyone from said mother thanks to her teacher are making demands step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out that she doesnAnuri't have any say in the matters childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emilybasically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is unaware slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her neighbourlife back, Samsuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, is just about failing to make herself knownstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and in a big wayreceiving money from them for doing so. But where does Emily come from? Well Most importantly, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself 'The Museum new focus of EmilyOphelia's online empire. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum' Can she save her sister, too, leaving and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the intrigue...same time?|isbn=18399427540861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Henry PhillipsTanner)|titleauthor=The SearchDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=Archaeology cannot be child's playIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, when youcomes into the police station shouting that he hasn're scraping in t killed the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident whatman. Archaeology must be A body at the bottom of a fair bit harder when you set out freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to find some specific thingdeath. This book DCI John Tanner is a case of the latterjust back from his honeymoon, as our author promises to locate which coincided with the topic birth of the titular searchhis daughter Samantha. And You would think he really hasn't made it d be grateful for an easy for himself – answer but the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, words 'perverse' and it'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on sleep-deprived to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old manpoint of falling asleep at work but he's visit back determined to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, and that keep going - probably because he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath himcan't get any sleep at home. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perished. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182
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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
|genre=Crime
|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 of detectives for the départment of the Dordogne. They're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed to the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part dead body 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 woman on the base, which they found in the car. Oh, and there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner edge of the car. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniper's weaponreservoir. Was there going The police seem happy to be assign it as an attempt to kill someoneaccidental death, or were but something about the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241542405|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1whole thing bothers Lowe,214 days. She'd ''like'' to: in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave he enlists the safety help of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friendfellow actor, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and MatildaJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, 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 her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.}}{{Frontpage|author=Will Brooker|title=The Truth About Lisa Jewell|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of They travel across the most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as wellcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was recitingseemingly, 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 link to attend), but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down death during the rabbit-hole that is Jewell's diverse outputSecond World War. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through But is there really a year in link between the published author's life, working to make a success of the latest title, and struggling with the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. 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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|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 itWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, “They f*** you upmother at work, your mum and dad/ They may not mean tojust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and the bonds that bind family. This book is a memoir focussing to log on to Voxminer, the author’s formative years as world-building, critter-collecting game that is a teenager living hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a lower class area of Birmingham. Her father is from Sttiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Kitts in For the Caribbean server she and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by bestie and marrying a black mannobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. This intersectionality plays a large role in the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to When malevolent eyes spark up on her racephone screen, her class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with caresafe place in the game has been doctored – well, love, and the kind of anger only where is a child can express girl to their parents.turn?|isbn=14722848360008666482
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|author=David LagercrantzJenny Lecoat|title=Dark MusicBeyond Summerland|rating=34|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=How far from Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at end of the heart of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthoccupation. For one, the main focus of During the narrative, Micaelawar, is no John Watson MD. SheJean's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of old, in a case where a referee of a junior football match father was found stoned arrested for listening to death shortly after the matcha banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and just outside the stadiumher mother waiting for years for news of him. Beppe, As the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic to British finally free the ref during Channel islands from the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anythingNazis, through days and weeks of interrogation. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything war is finally over, their superior comes up with, the kind who think hopes rise that they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see will finally learn what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks became of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is a shambleshim. But taken off will the casetruth come as a relief, she can no longer help solve or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the crime, and with Rekke Nazis about the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it all. radio? Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in And what other secrets have been kept throughout the middle of an apparent suicide attempt...occupation?|isbn=15294131921846976537
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