On What Cathy Read Next last week
Blog posts
Monday – I published an extract from Appointment in Tehran by James Stejskal.
Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Books To Put A Smile On Your Face.
Wednesday – I shared my review of Three Words for Goodbye by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb as part of the blog your. And 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 to have a good nose around what others are reading.
Thursday – I put Casemate Publishing in the spotlight, sharing my pick of their recent and forthcoming releases.
Friday – I celebrated completing the When Are Your Reading? 2021 Challenge.
Saturday – I published my review of Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout.
As always, thanks to everyone who has liked, commented on or shared my blog posts on social media.
New arrivals
To All the Living by Monca Felton (ARC, Imperial War Museum Classics)
In January 1941 Griselda Green arrives at Blimpton, a place ‘so far from anywhere as to be, for all practical purposes, nowhere.’ Monica Felton’s 1945 novel gives a lively account of the experiences of a group of men and women working in a munitions factory during the Second World War.
Wide-ranging in the themes it touches on, including class, sexism, socialism, fear of communism, workers’ rights, anti-semitism, and xenophobia, the novel gives a vivid portrayal of factory life and details the challenges, triumphs and tragedies of a diverse list of characters.
Drawing on the author’s own wartime experiences at the Ministry of Supply, To All the Living is reprinted in a new edition which includes an introduction from IWM, putting the work into historical context and shedding new light on this vital aspect of Britain’s home front.
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Blog Tour/Book Review: The Wrecking Storm (Thomas Tallant #2) by Michael Ward
- Blog Tour/Book Review: Ghosts of the West (Drabble and Harris #3) by Alec Marsh
- Book Review: The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
- Blog Tour/Book Review: Blasted Things by Lesley Glaister
- Blog Tour/Book Review: A Single Rose by Muriel Barbery
What Cathy Read Next... 
To All the Living sounds very intersting–I’ll wait for your review.
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