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#TopTenTuesday Books I’ll Be Reading Soon

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Top Ten Tuesday newTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post. Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists. Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

20 Books of Summer 2019This week is a Freebie with participants asked to come up with their own topic. I’ve chosen to look ahead to the nine (yes, only nine!) books left on my 20 Books of Summer list, the annual challenge hosted by Cathy at 746Books . I’ve added one – The Wanderers – which is the previous book to The Redeemed in Tim Pears’ The West Country Trilogy.

  • The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually by Helen Cullen – described as ” a celebration of the complex, flawed and stubbornly optimistic human heart”
  • The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan – five people are given a glimpse of the future but how will that knowledge affect them?
  • A Prince of the Captivity by John Buchan – the story of the courage of a man imprisoned for a crime he did not commit
  • The Wanderers by Tim Pears – continuing the story of Leo Sercombe begun in The Horseman
  • The Redeemed by Tim Pears – the final book in the trilogy, shortlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2020
  • A House of Ghosts by W. C. Ryan – described as “a gripping mystery with a classic feel…And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie meets The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell”
  • The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce – a novel about learning how to listen and how to feel, about second chances and choosing to be brave despite the odds
  • Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen – how one mistake can have a thousand consequences
  • Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult – described as a book that tackles “race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion – and doesn’t offer easy answers”
  • Those Who Are Loved by Victoria Hislop – historical novel set against the backdrop of the German occupation of Greece in WW2, the subsequent civil war and a military dictatorship

My Week in Books – 26th July 2020

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On What Cathy Read Next last week

Blog posts

Monday –  I shared my review of Paris Savages by Katherine Johnson as part of the blog tour.

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Literary Festivals & Events I’d Love to Attend. Since that’s not likely to be possible for a while, I looked back at some Henley Literary Festival events I’ve attended in past years.

Wednesday – WWW Wednesday is the opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next…and have a good nose around to see what other bloggers are reading. I also shared my review of The Young Survivors by Debra Barnes as part of the blog tour.

Thursday – I published my review of a book from my 20 Books of Summer list – Munich by Robert Harris. 

Friday –  I reviewed another book from my 20 Books of Summer list, The Storm by Amanda Jennings, a psychological drama set in Cornwall

As always, thanks to everyone who has liked, commented on or so generously shared my blog posts on social media this week.

New arrivals

9781786696366Fortress of Fury (The Bernicia Chronicles, #7) by Matthew Harffy (eARC, courtesy of Head of Zeus via NetGalley)

AD 647. Anglo-Saxon Britain. War hangs heavy in the hot summer air as Penda of Mercia and his allies march into the north. Caught unawares, the Bernician forces are besieged within the great fortress of Bebbanburg. It falls to Beobrand to mount the defence of the stronghold, but even while the battle rages, old and powerful enemies have mobilised against him, seeking vengeance for past events.

As the Mercian forces tighten their grip and unknown killers close in, Beobrand finds himself in a struggle with conflicting oaths and the dreadful pull of a forbidden love that threatens to destroy everything he holds dear.

With the future of Northumbria in jeopardy, will Beobrand be able to withstand the powers that beset him and find a path to victory against all the odds?

9781912987054The Bitch by Pilar Quintana, trans. by Lisa Dillman (advance review copy, courtesy of World Editions)

Colombia’s Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature.

Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age ‘when women dry up,’ as her uncle puts it, she is eager to adopt an orphaned puppy. But this act may bring more than just affection into her home.

The Bitch is written in a prose as terse as the villagers, with storms – both meteorological and emotional – lurking around each corner. Beauty and dread live side by side in this poignant exploration or the many meanings of motherhood and love.

cover180777-mediumKatheryn Howard: The Tainted Queen by Alison Weir (eARC, courtesy of Headline via NetGalley)

A naive young woman at the mercy of her ambitious family.

At just nineteen, Katheryn Howard is quick to trust and fall in love. She comes to court. She sings, she dances. She captures the heart of the King. Henry declares she is his rose without a thorn.

But Katheryn has a past of which he knows nothing. It comes back increasingly to haunt her. For those who share her secrets are waiting in the shadows, whispering words of love… and blackmail.

On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

  • Book Review: Belladonna by Anbara Salam
  • Top Ten Tuesday
  • Waiting on Wednesday
  • Blog Tour/Book Review: The Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees
  • Buchan of the Month/Book Review: The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan
  • #6Degrees of Separation: From How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell to…