On the blog last week
Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Book Series I Want To Catch Up On. I had no difficulty coming up with ten.
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 #SixonSaturday sharing six things from my garden this week. I also published my review of historical novel The Knife Maker of Venice by David Gilman.
New on my shelves
V is for Venom: Agatha Christie’s Chemicals of Death by Kathryn Harkup (ARC, Bloomsbury Sigma)
Fourteen novels. Fourteen more poisons. Just because it’s fiction doesn’t mean it’s all made-up …
Agatha Christie is renowned for her creative ways of killing off ill-fated characters with poisons, drawing on her extensive checmical knowledge to add intrigue to her ‘whodunit’ plots. But how is it that some compounds prove so fatal, and in such tiny amounts?
The follow-up to Kathryn Harkup’s best-selling A is for Arsenic, this book features fourteen more poisons from Christie’s works. Exploring the science behind these deadly substances, their use in real-life murder cases, and how feasible is it to obtain, administer and detect them, V is for Venom is a celebration of the science used by the undisputed Queen of Crime.
What I’m currently reading
I’m reading Farewell to Eden by Sebastian Faulks from my NetGalley shelf, The Correspondent by Virigina Evans for my book club, and listening to the audiobook of Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.
Look out for…
- Book Review: Conqueror (Agricola #4) by Simon Turney
- Book Review: Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson
- Book Review: A Thought Without Collision by Adrian Duncan
- Book Review: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
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