On What Cathy Read Next last week
Monday – I shared review of Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson, a coming-of-age story set in Jamaica.
Tuesday – I went off-piste for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday with a list of Books I’ve Read That Have Won Literary Prizes.
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 my Q&A with Gary Corbin about his latest crime novel, Under the Banner of Valor, which will be published on 7th May 2024.
Friday – I published my review of historical novel, The Paris Peacemakers by Flora Johnston, as part of the blog tour.
Saturday – I shared my review of A Better Place by Stephen Daisley, one of the books on the longlist for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
New arrivals
Two souvenirs from the Verve Books book bloggers event on 17th April.
The War Widow by Tara Moss (Verve Books)
WWII may be over, but journalist Billie Walker’s search for a missing young man will plunge her right back into the danger and drama she thought she’d left behind in Europe.
It’s 1946, and though war correspondent Billie Walker is happy to finally be back home in glamorous Sydney, for her the heady postwar days are tarnished by the loss of her father and the disappearance of her husband, Jack. To make matters worse, newspapers are now sidelining her reporting talents to prioritise jobs for returning soldiers.
Determined to take control of her future, she reopens her late father’s private investigation agency, and, slowly, the women of Sydney come knocking. At first, Billie’s work consists of tailing cheating husbands. But when a young man goes missing, Billie finds herself on a dangerous new trail that will lead her to the highest levels of Sydney society, and down into its underworld. As the risk mounts, Billie realises that there is much more than one man’s life at stake. Though the war was won, it is far from over.
The Damages by Genevieve Scott (Verve Books)
What I remember best about that week in January is trying to keep track of all the lies I told…
1997. Ontario has been hit by a days-long, life-endangering ice storm, and on Regis University campus, with classes cancelled, the students are partying. In the midst of it all, eighteen-year-old Ros’s roommate Megan goes missing. As a panicked search ensues, Ros is blamed for not keeping a closer eye on Megan, and the incident casts a shadow over the next two decades of her life.
2020. Ros’s former partner, Lukas, the father of her eleven-year-old son, is accused of a sexual assault. The accusation brings new details of an old story to light, forcing Ros to revisit a dark moment from her past. Ros must take a hard look not only at the father of her child, but also at her own mistakes, her own trauma, and at the supposedly liberal period she grew up in.
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Spotlight: Land Marks by Maryann Lesert
- Book Review: James by Percival Everett
- Book Review: Mania by Lionel Shriver
What Cathy Read Next... 