On What Cathy Read Next last week
Blog posts
Monday – I published my review of Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford.
Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was a freebie on the theme of Love/Valentine’s Day and I chose to share some book covers I’ve fallen in love with recently. I also published my review of The Girl at the Back of the Bus by Suzette D. Harrison 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 books others have plucked from their shelves.
Thursday – I shared my review of The Diplomat’s Wife by Michael Ridpath.
Saturday – I published my review of Land of the Living by Georgina Harding.
As always, thanks to everyone who has liked, commented on or shared my blog posts on social media.
New arrivals
A Book of Secrets by Kate Morrison (eARC, courtesy of Jacaranda Books and Random Things Tours)
A Book of Secrets tells the story of a West African girl hunting for her lost brother through an Elizabethan underworld of spies, plots and secret Catholic printing presses.
Susan Charlewood is taken from Ghana (then known as Guinea) as a baby. Brought to England, she grows up as maidservant in a wealthy Catholic household. Living under a Protestant Queen in late 16th Century England, the family risk imprisonment or death unless they keep their faith hidden. When her mistress dies Susan is married off to a London printer who is deeply involved in the Catholic resistance. She finds herself embroiled in political and religious intrigue, all while trying to find her lost brother and discover the truth about her origins.
The Art of the Assassin by Kevin Sullivan (ARC, courtesy of Allison & Busby)
1899, Glasgow. A man is stabbed to death in a tenement courtyard, and Juan Camaron, photographer-cum-sleuth, is enlisted to assist the police investigation. Perhaps his innovative photographic method can bring to light what the eye may have overlooked.
Yet Juan has problems of his own. His late father’s legacy, a monumental photographic record of the architecture of colonial Cuba, is threatened by a charge of plagiarism from a mysterious senora. Meanwhile, Juan’s hoped-for happiness with his fiancee, Jane, might be over before it’s even begun, and even more so when a visiting professor is murdered and Jane is witnessed fleeing the scene. Juan is torn between finding the killer and finding Jane, but are they one and the same? The truth may be hidden in the photographs.
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Book Review: Saving the World – Women: The Twenty-First Century’s Factor For Change by Paola Diana
- Top Ten Tuesday
- Book Review: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- Waiting on Wednesday
- Book Review: Madam by Phoebe Wynne
- Book Review: Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
- Book Review: The Art of the Assassin by Kevin Sullivan
What Cathy Read Next... 
Hope you have another great reading and blogging week this week!
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Ghana seems to be becoming a destination setting for books recently
Wishing you a great reading week
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I’m really enjoying the audiobook of Daughters of Night!
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Glad to hear it 😀 Great book
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