On What Cathy Read Next last week
Blog posts
Tuesday – I published my review of The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields as part of the blog tour.
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…as well as have a good nose around to see what other bloggers are reading. I also published my review of medieval mystery River of Sins (Bradecote & Catchpoll #7) by Sarah Hawkswood.
Thursday – With the end of the year approaching, I took a look at my progress with My 2020 Reading Challenges.
Friday – I shared my Five Favourite November Reads.
Saturday – The first Saturday of a new month means it’s time for 6 Degrees of Separation.
Sunday – I published my review of Becoming Alfie by Neil Patterson as part of the blog tour.
As always, thanks to everyone who has liked, commented on or so shared my blog posts on social media.
New arrivals
A Prince and a Spy by Rory Clements (eARC, courtesy of Zaffre via NetGalley)
Sweden, 1942 – Two old friends meet. They are cousins. One is Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother of the King of England. The other is Prince Philipp von Hesse, a committed Nazi and close friend of Adolf Hitler.
Days later, the Prince George is killed in a plane crash in the north of Scotland. The official story is that it was an accident – but not everyone is convinced.
There is even a suggestion that the Duke’s plane was sabotaged, but with no evidence, Cambridge spy Tom Wilde is sent north to discover the truth . . .
The Garden of Angels by David Hewson (eARC, courtesy of Severn House, via NetGalley)
The Palazzo Colombina is home to the Uccello family: three generations of men, trapped together in the dusty palace on Venice’s Grand Canal. Awkward fifteen-year-old Nico. His distant, business-focused father. And his beloved grandfather, Paolo. Paolo is dying. But before he passes, he has secrets he’s waited his whole life to share.
When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, Nico just watches – earning him a week’s suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says. A secret he must keep from his father. A tale of blood and madness . . .
Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under its Nazi overlords, and to the defining moment of his grandfather’s life: when Paolo’s support for a murdered Jewish woman brings him into the sights of the city’s underground resistance. Hooked and unsettled, Nico can’t stop reading – but he soon wonders if he ever knew his beloved grandfather at all.
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Book Review: The King’s Grace by John Buchan
- Top Ten Tuesday
- Waiting on Wednesday
- Blog Tour/Book Review: The Smallest Man by Frances Quinn
- Buchan of the Month: Introducing…The Long Traverse
- Book Review: The Running Wolf by Helen Steadman
What Cathy Read Next... 
Lovely to see a Prince and a Spy!
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I look forward to hearing your opinion of Liar.
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I’m about three-quarters of the way through and not quite sure what I make of it at the moment. Have you read it?
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No, I haven’t, but I thought about getting the ARC.
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