#TopTenTuesday Bookish Relationships #TuesdayBookBlog

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Top Ten TuesdayTop 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 Top Ten Tuesday topic is a Relationship Freebie. None of the suggested approaches provided me with inspiration so I’ve gone down the rather obvious route of book titles that feature familial or marital relationships. Links from each title will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.

  1. Sister of Mine by Laurie Petrou
  2. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
  3. Brother by David Chariandry
  4. The King’s Mother by Annie Garthwaite
  5. The Good Father by S. R. Wilsher
  6. The Shanghai Wife by Emma Harcourt
  7. My Husband the Stranger by Rebecca Done
  8. The Physician’s Daughter by Martha Conway
  9. The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
  10. Ancestry by Simon Mawer

 

My Week in Books – 18th August 2024

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My Week in Books

On What Cathy Read Next last week

Monday – I published my review of inventive short story collection, normal rules don’t apply by Kate Atkinson.

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Planes, Trains and Automobiles/Books Featuring Travel.

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.

Friday – I published my review of historical novel, Berlin Duet by S. W. Perry.

New arrivals

Terra IncognitaTerra Incognita by Simon Turney (Aries Fiction via NetGalley)

61 AD. Under Emperor Nero, Rome is rich and powerful, but dissatisfaction is rife. The emperor himself schemes avidly to increase his wealth and indulge his pleasures – and slaughter his many enemies – but also seeks glory.

The great River Nile, life-giver to the Egyptians, the Kushites, and many other kingdoms through the African continent. Nobody from the Roman Empire has ever tracked the Nile to its source… but if it can be done, mastery of the greatest waterway in the known world – and with it, the control of friend and foe alike – may be possible.

But the price of obtaining such knowledge will be terrible. Those soldiers selected to command and serve on the mission will be at risk the moment they pass beyond the Roman borders of Egypt. Kingdoms and tribes hostile to Rome, vast swathes of desert, fierce beasts… and the price of failure hanging over their heads, for Nero is not an easy man to please.

Hemlock BayHemlock Bay (Rachel Savernake #5) by Martin Edwards (Aries Fiction via NetGalley)

Basil Palmer has decided to murder a man called Louis Carson. There’s only one he doesn’t know anything about his intended victim, not who he is or where he lives.

Basil learns that Carson owns Hemlock Bay, a resort for the wealthy and privileged. Knowing that his plan will only work if he covers his tracks, he invents a false identity and, posing as Dr Seamus Doyle, journeys to the coast plotting murder along the way.

Meanwhile Rachel Savernake buys an intriguing painting of a place called Hemlock Bay, one that she cannot get out of her head. Macabre and strange, the image shows a shape that seems to represent a dead body lying on the beach.

Convinced that there is something sinister lurking amongst the glamour of the bay, Rachel books a cottage there – where she meets a mysterious doctor called Seamus Doyle…

On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

  • Book Review: Heart, Be At Peace by Donal Ryan
  • Book Review: The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable