My Week in Books – 22nd June 2025

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.


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.

I’m listening to the audiobook of Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson (the first book on my 20 Books of Summer list), I’m reading One Good Thing by Georgia Hunter from my NetGalley shelf and a review copy, SPIT by David Brennan.


  • Book Review: A Beautiful Way to Die by Eleni Kyriacou
  • Book Review: Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
  • Book Review: The Mare by Angharad Hampshire
  • Book Review: SPIT by David Brennan

My Week in Books – 15th June 2025

Monday – I shared my publication day Q&A with Jolie Tunnell, author of historical mystery Shadows in Chinatown.

Tuesday – I went off-piste for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic with a list of Book Titles That Would Make The News Bulletin.

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 shared, with some trepidation, my prediction for the winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025. (Spoiler: I got it wrong.)

Friday – I shared an excerpt from psychological thriller, Tangled Darkness by MM Desch, ahead of its publication on 15th July.


The House at Devil’s Neck by Tom Mead (Head of Zeus via NetGalley)

A former First World War field hospital, the spooky old mansion at Devil’s Neck attracts spirit-seekers from far and wide.

Illusionist-turned-sleuth Joseph Spector knows the house of old. With stories spreading of a phantom soldier making mischief, he joins a party of visitors in search of the truth.

But the house, located on a lonely causeway, is quickly cut off by floods. The stranded visitors are soon being killed off one by one.

With old ally Inspector Flint working on a complex case that has links to Spector’s investigation, the two men must connect the dots before Devil’s Neck claims Spector himself as its next victim.

I’m listening to Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson (the first book on my 20 Books of Summer list), I’m reading The Surgeon’s House by Jody Cooksley from my NetGalley shelf and a review copy, Spit by David Brennan.


  • Book Review: Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
  • Book Review: The Mare by Angharad Hampshire
  • Book Review: A Beautiful Way to Die by Eleni Kyriacou
  • Blog Tour/Book Review: Kane by Graham Hurley