On What Cathy Read Next last week
Blog posts
Monday – I took a look at the books on the shortlist for The Dylan Thomas Prize 2020.
Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Books I Enjoyed But Are Rarely Talked About. I highlighted some ‘hidden gems’ I’ve read that seem to have had little attention. I also shared my review of A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry.
Wednesday – WWW Wednesday is the opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next…and have a good nose around to see what other bloggers are reading.
Thursday – I shared some thoughts on the six books shortlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2020.
Friday – I published my review of Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather, a collection of short stories I read for the 1920 Club.
Saturday – I shared my list for the latest Classics Club Spin.
As always, thanks to everyone who has liked, commented on or shared my blog posts on social media this week.
New arrivals
Although I’ve already read and reviewed Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, I only had a digital copy so I couldn’t resist treating myself to this signed edition with bonus content.
The Redeemed (The West Country Trilogy, #3) by Tim Pears (paperback)
It is 1916. The world has gone to war, and young Leo Sercombe, hauling coal aboard the HMS Queen Mary, is a long way from home. The wild, unchanging West Country roads of his boyhood seem very far away from life aboard a battlecruiser, a universe of well-oiled steel, of smoke and spray and sweat, where death seems never more than a heartbeat away.
Skimming through those West Country roads on her motorcycle, Lottie Prideaux defies the expectations of her class and sex as she covertly studies to be a vet. But the steady rhythms of Lottie’s practice, her comings and goings between her neighbours and their animals, will be blown apart by a violent act of betrayal, and a devastating loss.
In a world torn asunder by war, everything dances in flux: how can the old ways life survive, and how can the future be imagined, in the face of such unimaginable change? How can Leo, lost and wandering in the strange and brave new world, ever hope to find his way home? [Shortlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2020]
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Book Review: A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys by John Buchan
- Top Ten Tuesday: Titles That Would Make Good Band Names
- Waiting on Wednesday
- Book Review: A Life Without End by Frederic Beigbeder
- Blog Tour/Book Review: The Wheelwright’s Daughter by Eleanor Porter
- Book Review: The Figure in the Photograph by Kevin Sullivan
What Cathy Read Next... 
Oooh… a SIGNED print version of Hamnet. I’m jealous. I did buy a print copy as well as get the ARC eBook, though. Also, Rachel Joyce sent me the uncorrected proof copy of her next novel, and signed it for me. I was thrilled! (Mind you, the copy she sent was cut kind of wonky, and the bottom with the page numbers are all off!
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