On What Cathy Read Next last week
It’s been a quiet week on the blog – except for posts I’d scheduled in advance – because of a four day city break in Zurich
Monday – I shared My Five Favourite August 2023 Reads.
Tuesday – I published an extract from thriller, England’s Best Export by Ruth Danes. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Books That Defied My Expectations.
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.
Saturday – I joined other gardeners for a #SixonSaturday update.
New arrivals
Night Train to Marrakech by Dinah Jefferies (ARC, HarperCollins via Readers First)
MARRAKECH 1966. Vicky Baudin steps onto a train winding through Morocco, looking for the grandmother she has never met.
It’s an epic journey that’ll take her to the edge of Atlas Mountains – and closer to the answers she’s been craving all her life.
But dark secrets whisper amongst the dunes. And in unlocking the mystery of Clemence’s past, Vicky will unearth great danger too . . .
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri (Manilla Press via Readers First)
This morning, I met the man who started the fire. He did something terrible, but then, so have I. I left him. I left him and now he may be dead.
Once upon a time there was a beautiful village that held a million stories of love and loss and peace and war, and it was swallowed up by a fire that blazed up to the sky. The fire ran all the way down to the sea where it met with its reflection.
A family from two nations, England and Greece, live a simple life in a tiny Greek Irini, Tasso and their daughter, lovely, sweet Chara, whose name means joy. Their life goes up in flames in a single day when one man starts a fire out of greed and indifference. Many are killed, homes are destroyed, and the region’s natural beauty wiped out.
In the wake of the fire, Chara bears deep scars across her back and arms. Tasso is frozen in trauma, devastated that he wasn’t there when his family most needed him. And Irini is crippled by guilt at her part in the fate of the man who started the fire.
But this family has survived, and slowly green shoots of hope and renewal will grow from the smouldering ruins of devastation.
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Henley Literary Festival 2023 Preview
- Book Review: The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
- Blog Tour/Book Review: The Mystery of Yew Tree House by Lesley Thomson
- Book Review: Adama by Lavie Tidhar
- Book Review: Wrecker by Noel O’Reilly
What Cathy Read Next... 
Your two new additions are by authors I like and sound good, I hope you enjoy them, Cathy.
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