Category: Top Ten Tuesday

#TopTenTuesday Most Recent Additions To My Book Collection

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Top 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.

This week’s topic is Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection. This is a constantly changing list but here are the ten latest arrivals at the time of writing. Links from the titles will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

The Mirror Game by Guy Gardner – a digital review copy for a blog tour, a mystery set in 1920s London 
Yinka, where is your huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn – a proof copy of a book due to be published at the end of March and described as ‘a beautiful, big hearted story about friendship, family, and love’. 
Sell Us The Rope by Stephen May – a digital review copy for a blog tour, a historical novel set in 1907 described as a ‘brilliant tale of revolutionary shenanigans in London’ 
The Streets by Anthony Quinn – a book I purchased after reading Eureka, this one is set in Victorian London and was nominated for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2013*
Rose Nicolson by Andrew Greig – a historical novel set in 16th century Scotland that is getting rave reviews*
The Magician by Colm Toibin – a fictionalised account of the life of writer Thomas Mann*
The Silver Wolf by J. C. Harvey – courtesy of a Readers First giveaway, the first book in a series set in the Thirty Years War
April in Spain by John Banville – a charity shop find, the follow-up to historical crime novel, Snow (which I still have to read)
The Physician’s Daughter by Martha Conway – a digital copy via NetGalley, a historical novel set just after the end of the American Civil War
The Dust Bowl Orphans by Suzette D. Harrison – a digital copy via NetGalley for a blog tour, a dual time novel set in Oklahoma in 1935 and California in the present day

*purchased thanks to the lovely people who gave me Waterstones gift cards for Christmas

 

#TopTenTuesday Most Anticipated Books Releasing In the First Half of 2022

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Top Ten Tuesday new

Top 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.

This week’s topic is Most Anticipated Books Releasing In the First Half of 2022. No sooner have we finished looking back than we’re looking ahead to the bookish delights to come. Historical fiction fans, here are a few for your wishlist. Links from the titles will take you to the book description on Goodreads where available. 

January 2022

  • The Man in the Bunker (Tom Wilde #6) by Rory Clements – Cambridge professor and spy Tom Wilde must find the truth behind Hitler’s death. Exactly who is the man in the bunker?
  • The Winter Guest by W. C. Ryan – A gripping mystery packed with twists and turns… the perfect chilling read this winter.

February 2022

  • The Porcelain Doll by Kristen Loesch – Rosie’s only inheritance from her reclusive mother is a book of Russian fairy tales. But there is another story lurking between the lines.
  • The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs – Eliza Acton, despite having never before boiled an egg, became one of the world’s most successful cookery writers, revolutionizing cooking and cookbooks around the world. Her story is fascinating, uplifting and truly inspiring.

March 2022

  • The Marsh House by Zoe Somerville – Part ghost story, part novel of suspense two women, separated by decades, are drawn together by one, mysterious house on the North Norfolk coast.
  • The Physician’s Daughter by Martha Conway – It is 1865, the American Civil War has just ended, and 18-year old Vita Tenney is determined to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a country doctor like her father.
  • Sell Us The Rope by Stephen May – Revolutionary, poet, lover. Robber, murderer, spy. May 1907 and a young Stalin is in London for a conference of Russian communists.
  • These Days by Lucy Caldwell – April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Over the next two months, it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.

April 2022

  • Elektra by Jennifer Saint – The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeance. This is the story of three women, their fates inextricably tied to this curse, and the fickle nature of men and gods.
  • The Caretakers by Amanda Bestor-Siegal – Set in a wealthy Parisian suburb, an emotionally riveting debut told from the point of view of six women, and centered around a group of au pairs, one of whom is arrested after a sudden and suspicious tragedy strikes her host family