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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books I Hope Santa Brings/Bookish Wishes. I think it unlikely Santa will bring me any actual books although I may receive some gift cards. If that’s the case I can purchase some books from my wishlist which is a veritable snowstorm of historical fiction. Links from each title will take you to the book description on Goodreads.
- Miss Veal and Miss Ham by Vicki Heywood – ‘At the heart of this intimate, moving and witty novel is a story of resilience, the dignity of love that cannot be spoken, and the challenges that come when the future no longer feels safe.’
- The Pretender by Jo Harkin – ‘historical fiction at its finest, a gripping, exuberant, rollicking portrait of British monarchy and life within the court, with a cast of unforgettable heroes and villains drawn from 15th century England’
- Smoke and Embers (Inspector Troy #9) by John Lawton – ‘a twisting plotline, crackling dialogue, characteristic humor, and the return of beloved characters’
- The Original by Nell Stevens – ‘There was a painting my family set on fire. It burned to ashes, and then it came back.’
- Hawthorn: A Scottish Ghost Story by Elaine Thomson – ‘For fans of Michelle Paver and Sarah Waters, the first in a haunting quartet of ghost stories set in the wilds of Scotland‘
- Greater Sins by Gabrielle Griffiths – ‘1915, the Cabrach, Aberdeenshire. An isolated Scottish community is disturbed by a strange discovery: a body in a peat bog, perfectly preserved’
- The Unrecovered by Richard Strachan – ‘Both unsettling and evocative, deeply atmospheric and brilliantly engaging The Unrecovered is an unforgettable historical debut inspired by a real life legend‘
- The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap – ‘a young medical student is lured into the underworld of body snatching in 19th-century Edinburgh … and unexpectedly falls in love’
- The Eights by Joanna Miller – ‘a captivating debut novel about sisterhood, self-determination, courage, and what it means to come of age in a world that is forever changed’
- The Winter Warriors by Olivier Norek, trans. by Nick Caistor – ‘Drawing on the real-life figures and battles of the Finnish-Soviet Winter War, The Winter Warriors is a riveting, heart-pounding, utterly epic historical thriller’
Have you read any of these? Which books are on your wishlist?
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