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Book Reviews for this months Doncaster Read will appear here. Want to add your own review? You can also download and complete the review template at the bottom of this page, and email it to the Literacy Team.

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Every two months Doncaster Libraries and Waterstones invite you to read and review the same book as many others across Doncaster. Start talking about books through the ‘Doncaster Read', you could meet friends and strangers alike, who have read the Doncaster Read and can share in your experience of reading for pleasure.

To get involved you can loan or reserve the chosen ‘Doncaster Read' from your library, there may also be e-books available online. Or you can purchase a copy from Waterstones, at their Frenchgate branch. There is a Doncaster Read display in Doncaster's Central Library showcasing other peoples reviews, letting you know what previous readers think about the book.

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Doncaster Read - May & June 2018 Doncaster Read - May & June 2018

Introducing our May & June 2018 Doncaster Read

Joanne Harris (MBE)

For May and June we are featuring bestselling Barnsley author Joanne Harris (MBE). A time of Maypole dancing, the Summer Solstice and Midsummer’s Day, what better time to feature her books full of fantasy, folklore and change brought on the wind…

Her website introduces her as ‘Joanne Harris, test-driver of experimental dream machines, does a bit of writing’ and notes her hobbies as ‘mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming’, the latter a reference to her bass playing with the band she joined at 16. She still lives in Yorkshire and like Roald Dahl, she writes in a shed in the garden of the house she shares with her husband and daughter.

With multiple novels, short stories and cookbooks to her name, there’s surely something to tempt your literary appetite, even if it’s just Chocolat…

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Why not celebrate Midsummer with some Doncaster Read magic?