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.

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is a freebie so we’re invited to come up with our own topic. Today being the first of July, here are ten books I’ve read that are the first in a series. Sorry, romance, fantasy, etc fans, they’re all historical fiction. Links from the title will take you to my review .

1. Fortune’s Wheel by Carolyn Hughes (The Meonbridge Chronicles)
2. Corpus by Rory Clements (Tom Wilde)
3. Essex Dogs by Dan Jones (Essex Dogs)
4. The Serpent Sword by Matthew Harffy (The Bernicia Chronicles)
5. The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse (The Joubert Family Chronicles)
6. The Drowned City by K. J. Maitland (Daniel Pursglove)
7. None So Blind by Alis Hawkins (Teifi Valley Coroner)
8. The Angel’s Mark by S. W. Perry (Nicholas Shelby)
9. The Great Darkness by Jim Kelly (Nighthawk)
10. The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry (Raven, Fisher and Simpson)

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.

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the Second Half of 2025. Here are just ten of the books I’m looking forward to reading, including quite a few I already have copies of via NetGalley. Links from the title will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

1. The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (publishes 10th July) – ‘A gripping historical thriller of murder and deceit in 18th-century London’
2. The Best of Intentions by Caroline Scott (publishes 17th July) – ‘A fond and funny story of friendship, community and staying true to yourself’
3. The Coming Fire by Greg Mosse (publishes 17th July) – ‘First came the darkness. Then the storm. Now it’s time to face the fire’
4. Lion Hearts (Essex Dogs #3) by Dan Jones (publishes 31st July) – ‘The unmissable conclusion to the Essex Dogs trilogy’
5. Cairo Gambit by S. W. Perry (publishes 7th August) – ‘An enthralling thriller … hypnotically readable’
6. The House at Devil’s Neck by Tom Mead (publishes 14th August) – ‘A fiendishly puzzling locked-room murder mystery’
7. Evil in High Places by Rory Clements (publishes 28th August) – ‘The gripping new historical thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author’
8. The Blazing Sea (The Whale Road Chronicles #8) by Tim Hodkinson (publishes 11th September) – ‘The thrilling new Viking adventure’
9. Dominion of Dust ( A Time for Swords #4) by Matthew Harffy (publishes 9th October) – ‘A rip-roaring Viking-era adventure’
10. The Hunters Club (The Oxford Mysteries #3) by Alis Hawkins (publishes 16th October) – ‘A scintillating historical mystery’