Category: My Week in Books

On What Cathy Read Next last week

Blog posts

Monday – I published my review of The Dead of Winter by S.J. Parris. 

Tuesday –  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was New-To-Me Authors I Read in 2020. 

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…as well as have a good nose around to see what other bloggers are reading. 

Friday – As part of the blog tour, I shared my review of Mint by S. R. Wilsher.

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

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New arrivals

Execution by S. J. Parris (audio book)

England, 1586. A treasonous conspiracy…. Giordano Bruno returns to England to bring shocking new intelligence to Sir Francis Walsingham. A band of Catholic Englishmen are plotting to kill Queen Elizabeth and spring Mary Queen of Scots from prison to take the English throne in her place.

A deadly trap…. Bruno is surprised to find that Walsingham is aware of the plot, led by the young, wealthy noble Anthony Babington and is allowing it to progress. His hope is that Mary will put her support in writing – and condemn herself to a traitor’s death.

A queen in mortal danger…. Bruno is tasked with going undercover to join the conspirators. Can he stop them before he is exposed? Either way a Queen will die; Bruno must make sure it is the right one….

Masters of Rome (Rise of Emperors #2) by Simon Turney & Gordon Doherty (eARC, courtesy of Aries Fiction via NetGalley)

Their rivalry will change the world forever.

As competition for the imperial throne intensifies, Constantine and Maxentius realise their childhood friendship cannot last. Each man struggles to control their respective quadrant of empire, battered by currents of politics, religion and personal tragedy, threatened by barbarian forces and enemies within.

With their positions becoming at once stronger and more troubled, the strained threads of their friendship begin to unravel. Unfortunate words and misunderstandings finally sever their ties, leaving them as bitter opponents in the greatest game of all, with the throne of Rome the prize.

It is a matter that can only be settled by outright war…

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On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

• Blog Tour/Book Review: Dublin’s Girl by Eimear Lawlor
• Top Ten Tuesday 
• Book Review: Land of the Living by Georgina Harding
• Waiting on Wednesday
• Blog Tour/Book Review: When The World Was Ours by Liz Kessler
• Book Review: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• #6Degrees of Separation

On What Cathy Read Next last week

Blog posts

Monday – I published my review of crime thriller, Forgotten Lives by Ray Britain. 

Tuesday –  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Books I Meant To Read in 2020. I also shared an extract from One Chance: Surviving London’s Gangs by Terroll Lewis.

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…as well as have a good nose around to see what other bloggers are reading. I also published my review of Artist, Lover, Soldier, Muse by Arthur D. Hittner.

Thursday – I shared my publication day review of A Prince and a Spy (Tom Wilde #5) by Rory Clements.

Friday – As part of the blog tour, I shared my review of historical crime mystery, To The Dark (Simon Westow #3) by Chris Nickson.

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

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New arrivals

A Lifetime of Men by Ciahnan Darrell (e-book, courtesy of the author and Random Things Tours)

Tolan has always let her mother have one secret – how she got that scar on her face – playing along with her mother’s game of inventing outlandish tales to explain the wound away. But when she finds a manuscript on her mother’s computer that promises to reveal the true story, Tolan only hesitates for a moment before curiosity compels her to read on.

She’s hoping for answers, but instead, she finds more mysteries tucked away in her mother’s past. Her mother appears to be associated with Bo, a feisty photojournalist who flies to Cuba in pursuit of a story and becomes embedded with Castro’s rebels, but Tolan can’t quite work out their connection. She’s more clear about the relationship between her mother and Michael, a man twelve years her senior. They bond over their shared outcast status, and their friendship quickly becomes intimate, but the relationship antagonizes the self-appointed moral watchdogs in their small town, who start to convert their threats into action. Tolan is pretty sure that Michael is her father. Her mother told her he died years ago, but the book suggests their story had a different ending.

Almost overnight, everything Tolan thought she knew about herself and her family has changed. She wants answers, but to find them, she risks destroying her closest relationships.

Saving Missy by Beth Morrey (eARC, courtesy of Harper Collins via NetGalley and Random Things Tours) 

Seventy-nine is too late for a second chance. Isn’t it?

Missy Carmichael is prickly, stubborn – and terribly lonely. Until a chance encounter in the park with two very different women opens the door to something new. Something wonderful.

Missy was used to her small, solitary existence, listening to her footsteps echoing around the empty house, the tick-tick-tick of the watching clock. After all, she had made her life her way.

Now another life is beckoning to Missy – if she’s brave enough…

You Let Me Go by Eliza Graham (eARC, courtesy of Lake Union Press via NetGalley and Rachel’s Random Resources) 

A secret family history of love, anguish and betrayal.

After her beloved grandmother Rozenn’s death, Morane is heartbroken to learn that her sister is the sole inheritor of the family home in Cornwall – while she herself has been written out of the will. With both her business and her relationship with her sister on the rocks, Morane becomes consumed by one question: what made Rozenn turn her back on her?

When she finds an old letter linking her grandmother to Brittany under German occupation, Morane escapes on the trail of her family’s past. In the coastal village where Rozenn lived in 1941, she uncovers a web of shameful secrets that haunted Rozenn to the end of her days. Was it to protect those she loved that a desperate Rozenn made a heartbreaking decision and changed the course of all their lives forever?

Morane goes in search of the truth but the truth can be painful. Can she make her peace with the past and repair her relationship with her sister?

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On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

• Book Review: The Dead of Winter by S. J. Parris
• Top Ten Tuesday 
• Waiting on Wednesday
• Blog Tour/Book Review: Mint by S. R. Wilsher
• Book Review: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith