On What Cathy Read Next last week
Monday – I published my review of The Capsarius by Simon Turney as part of the blog tour.
Tuesday – I shared my review of Fortune by Amanda Smyth, one of the four books on the shortlist for the Walter Scott Prize 2022.
Wednesday – A busy day for blog tours with reviews of Mr Bunting at War by Robert Greenwood and The Dark Flood by Deon Meyer. WWW Wednesday is my weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading.
Thursday – I went Down The TBR Hole again in an attempt to prune my To-Read shelf on Goodreads of books I no longer want to read.
Friday – I shared my review of another in the Imperial War Museum’s Wartime Classics series, Mailed Fist by John Foley.
Saturday – Indulging my other love – gardening – I took part in the #SixonSaturday meme with a few highlights from my horticultural week.
New arrivals
The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan (eARC, Harper Collins via NetGalley)
First Rule: Make them like you.
Second Rule: Make them need you.
Third Rule: Make them pay.
They think I’m a young, idealistic law student, that I’m passionate about reforming a corrupt and brutal system.
They think I’m working hard to impress them.
They think I’m here to save an innocent man on death row.
They’re wrong. I’m going to bury him.
Only May by Carol Lovekin (eARC, Honno)
Listen. The bee walks across my finger, slow as anything and I can see through the gauzy wing, to the detail of my skin. You aren’t looking in the right place. If you look her in the eye and tell a lie, May Harper will see it. And if she doesn’t see it, the bees will hum it in her ear.
Her kind mother and her free-spirited aunt have learned to choose their words with care. Her beloved invalid father lives in a world of his own, lost in another time, the war he cannot forget.
On May’s seventeenth birthday, a casual evasion from her employer hints at a secret hiding at the heart of the family. Determined to discover the truth, May starts listening at doors… She begins watching the faces of the people she loves best in all the world, those she suspects are hiding the biggest lie of all.
The White Girl by Tony Birch (eARC, Harper Collins)
Odette Brown has lived her whole life on the fringes of a small country town. After her daughter disappeared and left her with her granddaughter Sissy to raise on her own, Odette has managed to stay under the radar of the welfare authorities who are removing fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their families. When a new policeman arrives in town, determined to enforce the law, Odette must risk everything to save Sissy and protect everything she loves.
In The White Girl, Miles-Franklin-shortlisted author Tony Birch shines a spotlight on the 1960s and the devastating government policy of taking Indigenous children from their families.
Finally, I received four of this year’s Quick Reads courtesy of The Reading Agency for World Book Night which took place yesterday.
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Book Review: In Place of Fear by Catriona McPherson
- Book Review: The Birdcage by Eve Chase
- Book Review: Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner
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