Category: Top Ten Tuesday

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 Childhood Favourites. My list includes authors whose books I remember enjoying as a child and authors whose books I read during my teenage years that shaped my interest in the genres I love today, notably historical fiction. I’m conscious I’m showing my age with pretty much all of these!

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1. Dr. Seuss – Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat
2. Beatrix Potter – The Tales of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Mr. Jeremy Fisher and Jemima Puddle-Duck amongst other wonderful characters
3. Roger Hargreaves – The Mister Men series, including personal favourites Mr. Messy and Mr. Tickle
4. Michael Bond – The Paddington series, starting with A Bear Called Paddington
5. Enid Blyton – The Famous Five series, such as Five Go To Treasure Island, and the Mallory Towers series
6. Arthur Ransome – Titles such as Swallows & Amazons, Pigeon Post and We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea (complete with the distinctly non-PC advice: ‘Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won’t drown’)
7. Willard Price – The ‘Hal and Roger Hunt Adventures’ series such as South Sea Adventure, Amazon Adventure
8. Barbara Willard – ‘The Mantlemass Chronicles’ series including The Iron Lily and Harrow and Harvest
9. Geoffrey Trease – Bows Against the Barons, a retelling of the legend of Robin Hood
10. Rosemary Sutcliff – Her Roman Britain trilogy starting with The Eagle of the Ninth

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 Releases of the Second Half of 2019.  Oh my, this topic is like catnip for book bloggers because if there’s anything we like more than talking about the books we’re reading it’s looking forward to the books we want to read.  So this was a great opportunity to browse the catalogues of some of my favourite publishers and visit NetGalley to view books being published between July and December 2019.

Click on the book title to view the description on Goodreads.

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The Bone Fire (Somerhill Manor Mystery #4) by S.D. Sykes (Hodder & Stoughton, July 2019)

I read the previous book in the series, City of Masks, which I really enjoyed. Set in 1361 on Romney Marsh, this sounds equally enticing.

Hudson’s Kill (Justice Flanagan #2) by Paddy Hirsch (Corvus, July 2019)

The first book in the series, The Devil’s Half Mile, was one of my favourite historical crime mysteries of last year so I’m really hoping this next one will be just as good

The Room of the Dead (A Betty Church Mystery #2) by M.R.C. Kasasian (Head of Zeus, July 2019)

As a fan of author’s ‘The Gower Street Detective’ series, I was delighted to learn he was starting a new series.  I really enjoyed the first book, Betty Church and the Suffolk Vampire, and I’m hoping for equally good things from this one.

Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland (Quercus, July 2019)

I loved taking part in the buddy read for The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo organised by Quercus recently so was delighted to be invited to join this next one.

A Tapestry of Treason by Anne O’Brien (HQ Stories, August 2019)

I’ve been wanting to read one of Anne Brien’s books since hearing her speak at Henley Literary Festival in 2017.  This one, set in 1399 and centring on Constance of York, sounds like the perfect place to start.

The Mermaid’s Call by Katherine Stansfield (Allison & Busby, September 2019)

I loved the previous book in the series, The Magpie Tree, and can’t wait to read this new one set in Cornwall in 1845.

Bone China by Laura Purcell (Raven Books, September 2019)

Readers raved about the author’s previous books The Silent Companions and The Corset (both of which are on my wishlist) and this one sounds equally as good.

Wicked By Design by Katy Moran (Head of Zeus, September 2019)

A follow-up to the author’s False Lights once again featuring its charismatic and troubled hero – yes, please!

A Ration Book Childhood by Jean Fullerton (Corvus, October 2019)

I found the previous book in the series, A Ration Book Christmas, a charming read so I’m looking forward to reading this one as part of the blog tour.

Payback (DI Charley Mann #1) by R.C. Bridgestock (The Dome Press, December 2019)

The first book in a brand new series from the husband and wife team behind the DI Jack Dylan series, such as Poetic Justice which I read recently, is too good an opportunity to miss.

What books are you looking forward to?