What Cathy Read Next...

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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.

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

On the blog last week

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Books On My Summer 2025 To-Read List and I shared details of books 11 to 20 on my 20 Books of Summer 2025 reading list.

Wednesday – As always WWW Wednesday is a weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading.

Thursday – I published my review of historical thriller Kane by Graham Hurley as part of the blog tour.

Friday – I shared my review of The Surgeon’s House by Jody Cooksley.

New on my shelves

A Far-flung Life by M. L. Stedman (Proof, Doubleday via Women’s Prize Live)

Western Australia, 1958. A truck rumbles along a lonely outback road. A moment’s inattention, and in a few muddled seconds the lives of the MacBride family are shattered.

Instead of leaving them to heal, fate comes back for them in a twist of consequences that will cause one of them to lose their life, and another to sacrifice theirs for the sake of an innocent child.

Set in the expanse of a vast and flat landscape, where the weather is a capricious god and a million-acre sheep station is barely a dot on the map, A Far-flung Life explores the hearts of a handful of isolated souls and the secrets they shield in order to survive.