#TopTenTuesday Books On My Spring 2022 TBR

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This week’s topic is Books On My Spring 2022 TBR. Where do I start? Okay, here are just ten with the emphasis on those I need to read for blog tours and books on the longlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2022. The shortlist in announced at the beginning of April so I need to get a move on…

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson – The winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2021, this is March’s pick for my book club. 

Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu – Described as ‘a moving debut novel about war, migration, and the power of telling stories’ following three generations of a Chinese family on their search for a place to call home.

China Room by Sunjeev Sahota – On the longlist for the Walter Scott Prize, it combines the story of Mehar, a young bride in rural Punjab in 1929 and that of a young man who in 1999 travels there from England in enforced flight from the traumas of his adolescence.  

Traitor in the Ice by K. J. Maitland – Historical crime novel set in 1607 by a favourite author of mine, the follow-up to The Drowned City.

The Magician by Colm Tóibín – Another book on the longlist for the Walter Scott Prize, it’s the story of the life of writer Thomas Mann.

Still Life by Sarah Winman – A Walter Scott Prize longlisted book, in which young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, and middle-aged art historian, Evelyn Skinner, meet in Tuscany in 1944 setting off a chain of events. 

The Fall by Rachael Blok – A simple case of suspected suicide turns into an investigation into a long-buried past, involving a mental hospital, a pregnant woman, and fifty years of silence.

The Dark Flood by Deon Meyer – The eighth in the Benny Griessel series of crime novels by an author described by Wilbur Smith no less as ‘the undisputed champion of South African crime’.

The Birdcage by Eve Chase – Set on the Cornish coast, it’s the story of Kat, Flossie and Lauren, half-sisters who share a famous artist father – and a terrible secret.

Fortune by Amanda Smyth – Another book on the longlist for the Walter Scott Prize. Set in 1920s Trinidad, and based on a real-life event, it’s described as a novel about love, money, greed and ambition.

 

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