On What Cathy Read Next last week
Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Favourite Words and I focused on words and phrases often used (or overused depending on your point of view) in relation to books.
Wednesday – WWW Wednesday is a 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.
Friday – I shared my review of crime mystery House of Tigers along with a ‘Lucky Dip’ Q&A with its author William Burton McCormick.
New arrivals
Bellatrix (Legion XXII #2) by Simon Turney (eARC, Head of Zeus via NetGalley)
Titus Cervianus is no ordinary soldier. And the Twenty Second is no ordinary legion…
Egypt, 25 BC. Titus Cervianus marches into the unknown as he and the Twenty Second Legion contend with the armies of the Bellatrix: the Warrior Queen of Kush. The Kushites and the Egyptians are united against the Roman presence in their lands – but there are complex political and military forces at work. Deep in the deserts, Cervianus and his comrades must brace themselves for a furious onslaught as they take on the might of the Bellatrix.
Resurrection (The Englishman #3) by David Gilman (eARC, Head of Zeus via NetGalley)
Somewhere in the Sahara, on the desolate border between Sudan and Chad, a P51 Mustang with long-range drop tanks slowly emerges from the dunes. Inside, the skeletalized remains of a man missing for three decades. His flying jacket bears no insignia, a worn leather attaché case lies by his side, held securely by a manacle around his left wrist. Inside a document men will kill for. Die for.
The sands of time have shifted, and whoever finds that aircraft finds information that could expose the most valuable spy the UK intelligence service has ever known. The British, the French, and the Russians are on the trail.
And so is Raglan.
Death to the Emperor (Eagle #21) by Simon Scarrow (eARC, Headline via NetGalley)
It is AD 60. The hard-won province of Britannia is a thorn in the side of the Roman Empire, its tribes swift to anger, and relentless in their bloody harassment of the Roman military. Far from being a peaceful northern enclave, Britannia is a seething mass of bitter rebels and unlikely alliances against the common enemy. Corruption amongst greedy officials diverts resources from the locals who need them. For the military, it’s a never-ending fight to maintain a fragile peace.
Now it’s time to quell the most dangerous enemy tribes. Two of Rome’s finest commanders – Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro – are charged with a mission as deadly as any they have faced in their long careers. Can they win the day, or could this be the last battle?
On What Cathy Read Next this week
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Planned posts
- Book Review: Molly & the Captain by Anthony Quinn
- Book Review: The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph
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