On What Cathy Read Next last week
Monday – I shared my review of Seek The Singing Fish by Roma Wells.
Tuesday – I published my review of Tasting Sunlight by Ewald Arenz as part of the blog tour.
Wednesday – 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 made another visit Down the TBR Hole challenging more books on my Goodreads To-Read shelf to fight for their survival.
Friday – I shared my review of the winner of this year’s Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, News of the Dead by James Robertson.
Saturday – I published my review of Kezia and Rosie by Rebecca Burns.
New arrivals
Twelve Nights (The Heavenly Charmers #1) by Penny Ingham (eARC)
London, 1592. When a player is murdered, suspicion falls on the wardrobe mistress, Magdalen Bisset, because everyone knows poison is a woman’s weapon. The scandal-pamphlets vilify her. The coroner is convinced of her guilt.
Magdalen is innocent, although few are willing to help her prove it. Her much-loved grandmother is too old and sick. Will Shakespeare is benignly detached, and her friend Christopher Marlowe is wholly unreliable. Only one man offers his assistance, but dare she trust him when nothing about him rings true?
With just two weeks until the inquest, Magdalen ignores anonymous threats to ‘leave it be’, and delves into the dangerous underworld of a city seething with religious and racial tension. As time runs out, she must risk everything in her search for the true killer – for all other roads lead to the gallows.
A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks (Vintage)
Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire.
Across the courtyard in a Victorian workhouse, a father too ashamed to acknowledge his son.
A skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar; her voice sends shivers through the skull.
Soldiers and lovers, parents and children, scientists and musicians risk their bodies and hearts in search of connection – some key to understanding what makes us the people we become.
Instances of the Number 3 by Salley Vickers (4th Estate)
Bridget Hansome and Frances Slater have only one thing in common. And that’s Peter Hansome, who has died suddenly.
Without their husband or lover, the women find that before they can rebuild their lives they must look to themselves and unravel mysteries that they had never before even suspected.
So begins an unlikely alliance between wife and mistress and a voyage of discovery that is as comic as it is profound.
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Blog Tour/Book Review: Nothing Else by Louise Beech
- Book Review: Tomboy by Shelley Blanton-Stroud
- Blog Tour/Book Review: The Sweetheart Locket by Jen Gilroy
- My Five Favourite June Reads
- #6Degrees of Separation
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