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Top 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 topic is Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the Second Half of 2022.

Katastrophe by Graham Hurley (7th July) – The new blockbuster thriller set against the final stages of the Second World War.
That Bonesetter Woman by Frances Quinn (21st July) – Meet Endurance Proudfoot – England’s strongest woman, boldest adventurer and first female bonesetter.
The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh (4th August) – It’s the party to end all parties….but not everyone is here to celebrate.
The Night Ship by Jess Kidd (4th August) – An epic and imaginative historical novel, based on the true story of the wrecked Batavia
The Iron Way by Tim Leach (4th August) – Cast to the edge of the Empire, the Sarmatian army must fight in defence of Rome
Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris (1st September) – ‘From what is it they flee?’ He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, ‘They killed the King.’
Essex Dogs by Dan Jones (15th September) – Some men fight for glory. Others fight for coin. The Essex Dogs? They fight for each other.
All The Broken Places by John Boyne (15th September) – The sequel to the phenomenal bestseller, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson (27th September) – The award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to the dazzling London of the Roaring Twenties in a whirlwind tale of corruption, seduction, and debts that have come due
Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North by Rachel Joyce (20th October) – Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on his epic journey on foot to save a friend. But the story doesn’t end there. Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make.

Links from the titles will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

background book stack books close up — Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Pexels.com

It’s the first Saturday of the month which means it’s time for 6 Degrees of Separation!

Here’s how it works: a book is chosen as a starting point by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best and linked to six other books to form a chain. Readers and bloggers are invited to join in by creating their own ‘chain’ leading from the selected book.

Kate says: Books can be linked in obvious ways – for example, books by the same authors, from the same era or genre, or books with similar themes or settings. Or, you may choose to link them in more personal or esoteric ways: books you read on the same holiday, books given to you by a particular friend, books that remind you of a particular time in your life, or books you read for an online challenge. Join in by posting your own six degrees chain on your blog and adding the link in the comments section of each month’s post. You can also check out links to posts on Twitter using the hashtag #6Degrees.

This month’s starting book is Wintering by Katherine May. As usual, it’s a book I haven’t read but it’s a memoir which, according to the blurb, ‘teaches us to draw from the healing powers of the natural world and to embrace the winters of our own lives’.

Another memoir about the power of nature to aid both physical and mental recovery is Devorgilla Days by Kathleen Hart. Recuperating from treatment for breast cancer, the author moves to a small cottage in Wigtown, Scotland. She names the cottage ‘Devorgilla’ after a 13th century Scottish princess.

Devorgilla of Galloway was married to John, 5th Baron of Balliol who founded Balliol College, Oxford. One of its alumni was Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World.

Elspeth Huxley, the wife of Aldous’s cousin, was the author of The Red Rock Wilderness in which a young Scotsman travels to Congo in search of a Nobel prize-winning biologist.

Elspeth was a friend of Joy Adamson, the author of Born Free, the story of how Adamson and her husband raised a lion cub (whom they named Elsa) in captivity and later returned her to the wild.

The actress Virginia McKenna played Joy Adamson in the film Born Free and also starred in the film adaptation of wartime drama A Town Like Alice based on the novel by Nevil Shute.

Another of Nevil Shute’s novels was made into a film, this time starring Gregory Peck. On the Beach, published in 1957, is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe.

My chain has taken us from a restorative winter to a nuclear winter by way of Africa and Australia. Where did your chain take you?