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#WWWWednesday – 5th January 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

The Ends of the Earth PBThe Ends of the Earth by Abbie Greaves (ARC, Penguin)

Some love stories change us for ever.

For the last seven years, Mary O’Connor has waited for her first love. Every evening she arrives at Ealing Broadway station and stands with a sign which simply says: ‘Come Home Jim.’

Commuters might pass her by without a second thought, but Mary isn’t going anywhere. Until an unexpected call turns her world on its head.

It will take the help of a young journalist called Alice, and a journey across the country, for Mary to face what happened all those years ago.

Only with the help of others will she finally be able to answer the question: where on earth is Jim?

Recently finished

Wahala by Nikki May (Doubleday)

The Cornish Captive by Nicola Pryce (Corvus)

Betrayal (The Englishman #2) by David Gilman (Head of Zeus)

What Cathy (will) Read Next

Jane's Country YearJane’s Country Year by Malcolm Saville (ARC, Handheld Press) 

‘At last she reached the brow of the hill … now the country opened out below her and she looked down into a wide and lovely valley … Still patched with snow the little fields spread like a carpet below her and here and there a farmhouse with barns and golden ricks was clearly seen. Across the plain ran, straight as a ruler, a railway line and she saw a toy train puffing and crawling across the picture.’

Malcolm Saville’s classic novel is about eleven-year old Jane’s discovery of nature and country life during a year spent convalescing on her uncle’s farm, after having been dangerously ill in post-war London. This deeply-felt novel was written while Saville was extending his range as a writer, alongside his very successful Lone Pine adventure series, and nature anthologies for children. Inspired by the experiences of Saville’s own god-daughter, this marvellous novel is full of the wonder of discovery, as well the happiness of regaining health, making friends, and learning to love the natural world. The novel is also a record of rural England eighty years ago, written by one of the great twentieth century English nature writers. 

#TopTenTuesday Most Anticipated Books Releasing In the First Half of 2022

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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 First Half of 2022. No sooner have we finished looking back than we’re looking ahead to the bookish delights to come. Historical fiction fans, here are a few for your wishlist. Links from the titles will take you to the book description on Goodreads where available. 

January 2022

  • The Man in the Bunker (Tom Wilde #6) by Rory Clements – Cambridge professor and spy Tom Wilde must find the truth behind Hitler’s death. Exactly who is the man in the bunker?
  • The Winter Guest by W. C. Ryan – A gripping mystery packed with twists and turns… the perfect chilling read this winter.

February 2022

  • The Porcelain Doll by Kristen Loesch – Rosie’s only inheritance from her reclusive mother is a book of Russian fairy tales. But there is another story lurking between the lines.
  • The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs – Eliza Acton, despite having never before boiled an egg, became one of the world’s most successful cookery writers, revolutionizing cooking and cookbooks around the world. Her story is fascinating, uplifting and truly inspiring.

March 2022

  • The Marsh House by Zoe Somerville – Part ghost story, part novel of suspense two women, separated by decades, are drawn together by one, mysterious house on the North Norfolk coast.
  • The Physician’s Daughter by Martha Conway – It is 1865, the American Civil War has just ended, and 18-year old Vita Tenney is determined to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a country doctor like her father.
  • Sell Us The Rope by Stephen May – Revolutionary, poet, lover. Robber, murderer, spy. May 1907 and a young Stalin is in London for a conference of Russian communists.
  • These Days by Lucy Caldwell – April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Over the next two months, it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.

April 2022

  • Elektra by Jennifer Saint – The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeance. This is the story of three women, their fates inextricably tied to this curse, and the fickle nature of men and gods.
  • The Caretakers by Amanda Bestor-Siegal – Set in a wealthy Parisian suburb, an emotionally riveting debut told from the point of view of six women, and centered around a group of au pairs, one of whom is arrested after a sudden and suspicious tragedy strikes her host family