On What Cathy Read Next last week
Monday – I shared my review of How to Make A Bomb: A Novel by Rupert Thomson.
Tuesday – I went off-piste for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday with Books Set in Workplaces.
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 shared my experience of attending recordings of BBC Radio 4’s Bookclub.
Friday – I published my review of historical novel, A Plague of Serpents by K. J. Maitland.
Saturday – I shared my review of Absolutely & Forever by Rose Tremain, one of the books on the shortlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2024.
New arrivals
Cabaret Macabre by Tom Mead (eARC, Head of Zeus via NetGalley)
Hampshire, 1938. Victor Silvius is confined in a private sanatorium after attacking prominent judge Sir Giles Drury. When Sir Giles starts receiving sinister threatening letters, his wife suspects Silvius. Meanwhile, Silvius’ sister Caroline is convinced her brother is about to be murdered… by none other than his old nemesis Sir Giles.
Caroline seeks the advice of Scotland Yard’s Inspector Flint, while the Drurys, eager to avoid a scandal, turn to Joseph Spector. Spector, renowned magician turned sleuth, has an uncanny knack for solving complicated crimes – but this case will test his powers of deduction to their limits.
At a snowbound English country house, a body is found is impossible circumstances, and a killer’s bullet is fired through a locked window without breaking the glass. Spector and Flint’s investigations soon collide as they find themselves trapped by the snowstorm where anyone could be the next victim – or the killer…
Six Lives by Lavie Tidhar (eARC, Head of Zeus via NetGalley)
Six lives, connected through blood and history, each rooted in the dirt of their inheritance, look to the future, and what it might hold.
THE GUANO MERCHANT
In 1855, Edward Feebes travels to the guano islands of South America, to investigate an irregularity in the accounts of the House of Feebes & Co.
THE BLACKMAILER
In 1912, post-mortem photographer and reluctant blackmailer Annie Connolly plots her escape from Ireland to America on board the Titanic.
THE IDEALIST
In 1933, idealistic Edgar Waverley faces a choice of the heart when he becomes embroiled in a country house murder.
THE SPY
In 1964, hapless KGB agent Vasily Sokolov makes his career conjuring valuable information from worthless detritus.
THE MOVIE STAR
In 1987, actor Mariam Khouri looks back at ‘Black Dirt’, the movie that lifted her from the streets of Cairo.
THE HEIRESS
In 2012, Isabelle Feebes attempts to break with her poisonous heritage once and for all. Can she forge a new life for herself in the New World? Can you ever truly escape your past?
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Blog Tour/Book Review: The Small Museum by Jody Cooksley
- Book Review: Estella’s Revenge by Barbara Havelocke
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Missed your Radio 4 Book Club post earlier in the week so just caught up. So interesting!
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The BBC World Service also have a bookclub programme, if that’s of interest. Doesn’t require attendance in person as it caters for readers all over the world. If the question you submit is selected you get to put it to the author over the phone.
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How are you finding The Ministry of Time. I’m really tempted as I love time travel but I’m not sure if it will be for me or not.
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I’m enjoying it. It’s inventive but I’m not quite sure if the author has decided whether she’s writing sci-fi or a rom-com. On the other hand, maybe she deliberately set out to write a mashup of both with a bit of historical fiction thrown in, in which case she’s succeeded.
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