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My Week in Books – 18th September 2022

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MyWeekinBooksOn What Cathy Read Next last week

Tuesday – I shared my review of crime novel, The Santa Killer by Ross Greenwood as part of the blog tour. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Book Titles Containing Geographical Terms. 

Wednesday – I published my review of dual-time novel, Island of Secrets by Patricia Wilson, set on the island of Crete.  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 shared my publication day review of historical novel, Essex Dogs by Dan Jones. 

Friday – I made another trip Down the TBR Hole to take a long hard look at the oldest books in my TBR pile. Should they stay or should they go?

Saturday – I celebrated completing the When Are You Reading? Challenge 2022. 

New arrivals

The Coming DarknessThe Coming Darkness by Greg Mosse (ARC, Moonflower Books)

Paris, 2037. Alexandre Lamarque of the French external security service is hunting for eco-terrorists. Experience has taught him there is no one he can trust. Experience has taught him there is no one he can trust – not his secretive lover Mariam, not even his old mentor, Professor Fayard, the man at the centre of the web. He is ready to give up. But he can’t.

In search of the truth, Alex must follow the trail through an ominous spiral of events, from a string of brutal child murders to a chaotic coup in North Africa. He rapidly finds himself in a heart-thumping race against chaos and destruction. He could be the world’s only hope of preventing THE COMING DARKNESS… 

SBS Special Boat SquadronSBS: Special Boat Squadron by Iain Gale (eARC, Head of Zeus via NetGalley)

From this moment on, you and your men, you don’t exist.

Operation Anglo, 31 August 1942. Beneath the waves of the Mediterranean, HMS Traveller closes in on the coast of Rhodes. Aboard, eight SBS commandos check their weapons as they prepare to infiltrate and sabotage two Axis bomber fields. Only two of the eight commandos will make it back to alive. Ex-Black Watch Sgt Jim Hunter will be one of the lucky ones, but what he will face next will make Operation Anglo look like a cakewalk.

On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

  • Book Review: Life Time by Russell Foster
  • Book Review: The Bone Flower by Charles Lambert
  • Book Review: The Plague Charmer by Karen Maitland
  • Book Review: All the Broken Places by John Boyne

#WWWWednesday – 14th September 2022

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WWWWednesdays

Hosted by Taking on a World of Words, this meme is all about the three Ws:

  • What are you currently reading?
  • What did you recently finish reading?
  • What do you think you’ll read next?

Why not join in too?  Leave a comment with your link at Taking on a World of Words and then go blog hopping!

Currently reading

All The Broken PlacesAll the Broken Places by John Boyne (eARC, Doubleday via NetGalley)

1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame, and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past.

Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience. However, the appearance of their nine-year-old son Henry brings back memories she would rather forget.

Faced with a choice between her own safety and his, Gretel is taken back to a similar crossroads she encountered long ago. Back then, her complicity dishonoured her life, but to interfere now could risk revealing the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting.

ThePlagueCharmerThe Plague Charmer by Karen Maitland (Headline)

1361. An unlucky thirteen years after the Black Death, plague returns to England.

When the sickness spreads from city to village, who stands to lose the most? And who will seize this moment for their own dark ends?

The dwarf who talks in riddles?
The mother who fears for her children?
The wild woman from the sea?
Or two lost boys, far away from home?

Pestilence is in the air. But something much darker lurks in the depths.

Recently finished

The Santa Killer by Ross Greenwood (Boldwood Books)

Island of Secrets by Patricia Wilson (Zaffre)

Life Time: The New Science of the Body Clock by Russell Foster (Penguin)

Essex Dogs by Dan Jones (Head of Zeus)

What Cathy (will) Read Next

The Bone FlowerThe Bone Flower by Charles Lambert (ARC, Gallic Books)

On a grey November evening in Victorian London, Edward Monteith, a moneyed but listless young man, stokes the fire at his local gentlemen’s club, listening to its members: scientists, explorers and armchair philosophers discussing their supernatural experiences and theories of life after death.

Edward is taken under the wing of some sceptics and attends a supposed séance where he is captivated by a beautiful young woman selling flowers outside the theatre. What follows is a quintessential Gothic novel, a ghost story, and an uncanny love story.