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=='''23 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}=='''26 30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett Swanton Morley (translatorJohn Tanner)|titleauthor=Little DrummerDavid Blake|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives seriesIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, this crime story is covered in mud and blood - and carrying a mixture of knife, comes into the police procedural and thrillerstation shouting that he hasn't killed the man. Beginning with A body at the death bottom of a young woman in a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into a farfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -reaching investigation of murder, fraud, and international pharmaceutical dealingshe's been stabbed to death. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and FrolichDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, who end up working separately on which coincided with the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led to Africa as they follow birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the twists words 'perverse' and turns of the investigation'John Tanner' were made for each other. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down He's sleep-deprived to the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is keep going on- probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1914585127
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 =='''2 4 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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|isbnauthor=1800901232Stuart Douglas|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve ColeLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyCrime|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a fashion designerreservoir. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was The police seem happyto assign it as an accidental death, if not prosperousbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to he enlists the village to offer Hahn help of a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not fellow actor, John Le Breton to be missedhelp him investigate matters further. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on They travel across the mini-bus to Hanoi. Onlycountry during their days off filming, Hanh uncovering more possible murders and the other girls were not going to work in , seemingly, a shop, they were link to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factorydeath during the Second World War. You know those jeans you But is there really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on a link between the legsdeaths? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched themAnd will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Fiona LongmuirKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Looking for EmilyDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet LilyKit. She Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and her mother have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edgehealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and everyone from said mother race to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out that she doesn't have any say in the matterexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called EmilyKit, she the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is unaware her neighbourthat one team has been retired, Sameaten, and a new trio of questors is just about needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to make herself known, the goading from the token bully of his world and in stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a big wayteam. But where What chance does Emily come fromthis friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed? Well|isbn=1839945184}}=='''13 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, Lily used the things that name because of what shemake you ''immediately''d just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of feel that this is the most mundane objectsbook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', in some converted houses behind I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a most unassuming door, in picture of a place calling itself 'The Museum slice of Emilychocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Sam is completely unaware of this (There'museums a recipe in the book, which I', too, leaving m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the two girls book and I was told to make sure they leave no stone unturned a mess of it. Notes in finding what's behind the intriguemargins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1839942754
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=='''21 JUNE4 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}
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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=CookeryGeneral Fiction|summary=''Think Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end 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 isoccupation. Then there are all During the different typeswar, not Jean's father was arrested for listening to mention the cultivars - a banned radio and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met soldiers took him away one she didn't lovenight, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. I'd argue with her there - I have no affection for As the ones you find in British finally free the supermarket ''next'' to Channel islands from the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from Nazis, and the ones war is finally over, their hopes rise that have obviously just been grown for profitthey will finally learn what became of him. PersonallyBut will the truth come as a relief, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - and Howard makes good use of these. or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? She's not at all precious if you get And what other secrets have been kept throughout the taste.occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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