On What Cathy Read Next last week
Monday – I shared the 5 Star Books I’ve Read So Far This Year.
Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Things That Make Me Instantly Not Want To Read A Book.
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 psychological thriller, Sister of Mine by Laurie Petrou as part of the blog tour.
Friday – I shared my Five Favourite May 2023 Reads.
Saturday – I took part in the #6Degrees of Separation meme.
New arrivals
Moscow Exile (Joe Wilderness #4) by John Lawton (Grove Press)
Charlotte is a British expatriate who has recently settled in Washington, D.C. with her second husband, but enviable dinner parties aren’t the only thing she is planning. Meanwhile, Charlie Leigh-Hunt has been posted to Washington as a replacement for Guy Burgess, last seen disappearing around the corner and into the Soviet Union. Charlie is surprised to cross paths with Charlotte, an old flame of his, who, thanks to her gossipy parties, has a packed pocketbook full of secrets she is eager to share.
Two decades later, in 1969, Joe Wilderness is stuck on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, held captive by the KGB, a chip in a game way above his pay grade – but his old friends Frank and Eddie are going to try to spring him out of the toughest prison in the world. All roads lead back to Berlin, and to the famous Bridge of Spies…
A Bitter Remedy by Alis Hawkins (Canelo)
Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallow….
Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found dead at his lodgings and the medical examination reveals some shocking findings. When the young man’s guardian blames the college for his death and threatens a scandal, Basil Rice, a Jesus college fellow with a secret to hide, is forced to act and finds himself drawn into Sidney Parker’s sad life.
The mystery soon attracts the attention of Rhiannon ‘Non’ Vaughan, a young Welsh polymath and one of the young women newly admitted to university lectures. But when neither the college principal nor the powerful ladies behind Oxford’s new female halls will allow her to become involved, Non’s fierce intelligence and determination to prove herself drive her on.
Both misfits at the university, Non and Basil form an unlikely partnership, and it soon falls to them to investigate the mysterious circumstances of Parker’s death. But between the corporate malfeasance and the medical quacks, they soon find the dreaming spires of Oxford are not quite what they seem.…
On What Cathy Read Next this week
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- Book Review: Ancestry by Simon Mawer
- Book Review: Hokey Pokey by Kate Macarenhas
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