On What Cathy Read Next last week
Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was a freebie. My ‘Just The Two Of Us’ list featured books that involve couples.
Wednesday – As always 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.
Thursday – I published my review of historical novel, The Soldier’s Child by Tetyana Denford as part of the blog tour.
Friday – I shared my review of historical novel, The Painter of Souls by Philip Kazan.
Saturday – I published my review of Para Bellum by Simon Turney.
New arrivals
A Fenland Garden by Frances Pryor (Head of Zeus via NetGalley)
A Fenland Garden is the story of the creation of a garden in a complex and fragile English landscape – the Fens of southern Lincolnshire – by a writer who has a very particular relationship with landscape and the soil, thanks to his distinguished career as an archaeologist and discoverer of some of England’s earliest field systems. It describes the imagining, planning and building of a garden in an unfamiliar and sometimes hostile place, and the challenges, setbacks and joys these processes entail. This is a narrative of the making of a garden, but it is also about reclaiming a patch of ground for nature and wildlife – of repairing the damage done to a small slice of Fenland landscape by decades of intensive farming.
A Fenland Garden is informed by the empirical wisdom of a practising gardener (and archaeologist) and by his deep understanding of the soil, landscape and weather of the region; Francis’s account of the development of the garden is counterpointed by fascinating nuggets of Fenland lore and history, as well as by vignettes of the plantsman’s trials and tribulations as he works an exceptionally demanding plot of land.
Adama by Lavie Tidhar (eARC, Head of Zeus via NetGalley)
There is no land without blood – no adama without dam.
In 1946, a young Ruth begins building a new life in Palestine, haunted by the death of her family in Europe and driven by youthful ideals in a land hostile to her presence. Her sister, Shoshana, survives in the Displaced Persons camps of Germany and joins her in Palestine, but dreams of escaping to distant America.
Her lovers, Dov and Israel, die in war, and her children try to serve the land Ruth bled for, only to find their own tragic ends or means of escape. As one generation begets another, their lives become entwined into a dark tapestry of secrets and lies, of revenge, forbidden love and murder.
A sweeping historical epic following four generations of a single family as they struggle to hold on to their land and each other.
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Book Review: Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt
- Blog Tour/Book Review: The Unheard by Anne Worthington
- Book Review: Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman
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