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#Giveaway The Museum Makers by Rachel Morris @SeptemberBooks

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The Museum Makers PB

WinIn August last year I was delighted to take part in the blog tour for The Museum Makers by Rachel Morris published by September Books. You can read my review here.  So I was thrilled when Charlotte at September Books got in touch to invite me to celebrate the book’s recent publication in paperback by running a (UK only) giveaway, giving one lucky reader the chance to win themselves a copy of this fascinating book.

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  • UK entries only
  • The winner will be selected at random via Rafflecopter from all valid entries and will be notified by email and asked to provide a valid UK postal address. If no response is received within 7 days then I reserve the right to select an alternative winner.
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  • I am not responsible for despatch or delivery of the prize.

About the Book

“Without even thinking I began to slide all these things from the boxes under my bed into groups on the carpet, to take a guess at what belonged to whom, to match up photographs and handwriting to memories and names – in other words, to sort and classify. You can tell that I am a museum person because my first instinct – I can’t help myself – is to believe that in the past lie both the secrets and the answers.”

Museum expert Rachel Morris had been ignoring the boxes of family belongings beneath her bed for decades. When she finally opened them she began a journey into her family’s dramatic story through the literary and bohemian circles of the nineteenth and twentieth century. It was a revelatory experience – one that finds her searching for her absent father in archives of the Tate, to wonder why Gran was predisposed towards tragic endings, and which transports her back to the museums that had enriched her lonely childhood.

By teasing out the stories of those early museum makers, and the unsung daughters and wives behind them, and seeing the same passions and mistakes reflected in her own family, Morris digs deep into the human instinct for collection and curation.

Format: Paperback (272 pages)         Publisher: September Publishing
Publication date: 1st July 2021          Genre: Memoir

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Rachel Morris author The Museum MakersAbout the Author

A director of the museum-making company Metaphor, Rachel Morris has been part of the creation, design and delivery of some of the most exciting displays, renovations and museums of the last few decades, from the New Cast Courts at the V&A and the Ashmolean, Oxford to the Terracotta Warriors at the British Museum and Grand Egyptian museum in Cairo.  Rachel is also the author of two novels. (Photo/bio credit: Publisher author page)

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#WWWWednesday – 7th July 2021

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WWWWednesdays

Hosted by Taking on a World of Words, this meme is all about the three Ws:

  • What are you currently reading?
  • What did you recently finish reading?
  • What do you think you’ll read next?

Why not join in too?  Leave a comment with your link at Taking on a World of Words and then go blog hopping!

Currently reading

Songbirds by Christy Lefteri (reSongbirdsview copy, courtesy of Manilla Press and Readers First)

Nisha has crossed oceans to give her child a future. By day she cares for Petra’s daughter; at night she mothers her own little girl by the light of a phone.

Nisha’s lover, Yiannis, is a poacher, hunting the tiny songbirds on their way to Africa each winter. His dreams of a new life, and of marrying Nisha, are shattered when she vanishes.

No one cares about the disappearance of a domestic worker, except Petra and Yiannis. As they set out to search for her, they realise how little they know about Nisha. What they uncover will change them all.

For Lord and LandFor Lord & Land (The Bernicia Chronicles #8) by Matthew Harffy (eARC, courtesy of Head of Zeus via NetGalley)

AD 647 Anglo-Saxon Britain. Greed and ambition threaten to tear the north apart. War rages between the two kingdoms of Northumbria. Kin is pitted against kin and friend becomes foe as ambitious kings vie for supremacy.

When Beobrand travels south into East Angeln to rescue a friend, he unwittingly tilts the balance of power in the north, setting in motion events that will lead to a climactic confrontation between Oswiu of Bernicia and Oswine of Deira. While the lord of Ubbanford is entangled in the clash of kings, his most trusted warrior, Cynan, finds himself on his own quest, called to the aid of someone he thought never to see again. Riding into the mountainous region of Rheged, Cynan faces implacable enemies who would do anything to further their own ends. Forced to confront their pasts, and with death and betrayal at every turn, both Beobrand and Cynan have their loyalties tested to breaking point. Who will survive the battle for a united Northumbria, and who will pay the ultimate price for lord and land?

Recently finished

Links from the titles will take you to my review.

This Shining Life by Harriet Kline 

Business As Usual by Jane Oliver & Ann Stafford

Those I Have Lost by Sharon Maas

A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende

What Cathy (will) Read Next

The Book of Echoes PBThe Book of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka (ebook, courtesy of Doubleday and Random Things Tours)  

While giving thanks at a shrine in Africa over two hundred years ago, a young woman tosses her infant son to safety moments before she is hauled away by slavers. After a brutal sea passage, her baby girl is snatched steaming from her loins as she gives birth. Although she doesn’t know it yet, her spirit is destined to roam the earth in search of her lost children.

She will make her way to England where Michael is trying to stay out of trouble as riots spit and boil down the streets of South London, and all the way to a sun-baked village in Nigeria, where a servant girl named Ngozi struggles to escape her low-caste status. As the invisible threads that draw her to these lives are pulled ever tighter, The Book of Echoes asks: how can we overcome the traumas of the past when they are woven, so inextricably, with the present?