My Week in Books – 22nd June 2025

On the blog last week

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Books On My Summer 2025 To-Read List and I shared details of books 11 to 20 on my 20 Books of Summer 2025 reading list.

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 thriller Kane by Graham Hurley as part of the blog tour.

Friday – I shared my review of The Surgeon’s House by Jody Cooksley.

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New on my shelves

A Far-flung Life by M. L. Stedman (Proof, Doubleday via Women’s Prize Live)

Western Australia, 1958. A truck rumbles along a lonely outback road. A moment’s inattention, and in a few muddled seconds the lives of the MacBride family are shattered.

Instead of leaving them to heal, fate comes back for them in a twist of consequences that will cause one of them to lose their life, and another to sacrifice theirs for the sake of an innocent child.

Set in the expanse of a vast and flat landscape, where the weather is a capricious god and a million-acre sheep station is barely a dot on the map, A Far-flung Life explores the hearts of a handful of isolated souls and the secrets they shield in order to survive.

What I’m currently reading

I’m listening to the audiobook of Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson (the first book on my 20 Books of Summer list), I’m reading One Good Thing by Georgia Hunter from my NetGalley shelf and a review copy, SPIT by David Brennan.

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Look out for…

• Book Review: A Beautiful Way to Die by Eleni Kyriacou
• Book Review: Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
• Book Review: The Mare by Angharad Hampshire
• Book Review: SPIT by David Brennan