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#TopTenTuesday Books On My Autumn 2020 TBR

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Top Ten TuesdayTop 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 Books On My Fall 2020 TBR. Here are ten of the books I’m planning to read (or need to read for blog tours) in October and November. Links from the titles will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

Green Hands by Barbara Whitton (published on 3rd September by Imperial War Museum Classics) – Barbara Whitton’s autobiographical novel paints a sometimes funny, sometimes bleak picture of time spent in the Women’s Land Army during the Second World War

Those Who Know by Alis Hawkins (published on 24th September by Dome Press) – The third in the Teifi Valley Coronor historical mystery series

Betrayal by Lilja Sigurdardottir (published on 1st October by Orenda) – Exploring the harsh worlds of politics, police corruption and misogyny, Betrayal is a relevant, powerful, fast-paced thriller that feels just a little bit too real…

Endless Skies by Jane Cable (published on 26th July by Sapere) – A modern day romance with a historical twist 

 

The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline (published on 22nd October by Allison & Busby) – an ambitious, emotionally resonant novel that captures the hardship, oppression, opportunity and hope of a trio of women’s lives in nineteenth-century Australia

When The Music Stops by Joe Heap (published on 29th October by Harper Collins) – This is the story of Ella. And Robert. And of all the things they should have said, but never did.

When I Come Home Again by Caroline Scott (published on 29th October by Simon & Schuster) – How can you know who you are, when you choose to forget who you’ve been?

The Diabolical Bones by Bella Ellis (published on 5th November by Hodder & Stoughton) – a new case for the Brontë sisters’ fledgling detecting enterprise

 

How To Belong by Sarah Franklin (published on 12th November by Bonnier) – In the follow up to her acclaimed novel Shelter, Sarah Franklin returns to the Forest of Dean, this time exploring what it means to belong to a rural community in a rapidly changing world.

Imperfect Alchemist by Naomi Miller (published on 19th November by Allison & Busby) – Two women. One bond that will unite them across years and social divides. 



What books are on your Autumn TBR?

#WWWWednesday – 16th September 2020

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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

A book for a blog tour and a NetGalley ARC

Hermit by S.R. White (ARC, courtesy of Headline)

He disappeared for 15 years…she has 12 hours to find out why.

After the puzzling death of a shopkeeper in rural Australia, troubled detective Dana Russo has just 12 hours to interrogate the prime suspect – a silent, inscrutable man found at the scene of the crime, who simply vanished 15 years earlier.

Where has he been? And just how dangerous is he? Without conclusive evidence linking him to the killing, Dana must race against time to persuade him to speak. But over a series of increasingly intense interviews, Dana is forced to confront her own past if she wants him to reveal the shocking truth.

V2 Robert HarrisV2 by Robert Harris (eARC, courtesy of Cornerstone via NetGalley)

It’s November 1944–Willi Graf, a German rocket engineer, is launching Nazi Germany’s V2 rockets at London from Occupied Holland. Kay Connolly, once an actress, now a young English Intelligence officer, ships out for Belgium to locate the launch sites and neutralize the threat. But when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a suspect. Unknown to each other, Graf and Connolly find themselves on opposite sides of the hunt for the saboteur.

Their twin stories play out against the background of the German missile campaign, one of the most epic and modern but least explored episodes of the Second World War. Their destinies are on a collision course.

Recently finished

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

The Artist and the Soldier by Angelle Petta 

The Girl From The Hermitage by Molly Gartland

City of Spies by Mara Timon 

LISBON, 1943. After escaping from Nazi-Occupied France, SOE agent Elisabeth de Mornay, codename Cecile, receives new orders: she must infiltrate high society in neutral Lisbon and find out who is leaking key information to the Germans about British troop movements. As Solange Verin, a French widow of independent means, she will be able to meet all the rich Europeans who have gathered in Lisbon to wait out the war. One of them is a traitor and she must find out who before more British servicemen die.

Complications arise when ‘Solange’ comes to the attention of German Abwehr officer, Major Eduard Graf. As they get to know each other, she struggles to keep her lies close to the truth.

But in a city that is filled with spies, how can she tell who is friend, or foe? (Review to follow)

Skelton’s Guide to Domestic Poisons by David Stafford 

Unassuming Yorkshireman, Arthur Skelton, is one of the most celebrated and recognizable barristers in the land. His success in the high-profile Dryden case – ‘the scandal of 1929’ – catapulted him to the front pages of the national newspapers. His services are now much in demand and, after careful consideration, he agrees to defend Mary Dutton. Dubbed ‘The Collingford Poisoner’ by the press, Mary is accused of poisoning her husband after years of abuse. Together with his trusted assistant, Skelton digs deeper and discovers that secrets and lies run deep in the Dutton family and all is not as it appears. (Review to follow)

What Cathy (will) Read Next

The Second Marriage by Gill Paul (eARC, courtesy of Avon and Random Things Tours)

JACKIE – When her first marriage ends in tragedy, Jackie Kennedy fears she’ll never love again. But all that changes when she encounters…

ARI – Successful and charming, Ari Onassis is a man who promises her the world. Yet soon after they marry, Jackie learns that his heart also belongs to another…

MARIA – A beautiful, famed singer, Maria Callas is in love with Jackie’s new husband – and she isn’t going to give up.

Little by little, Jackie and Maria’s lives begin to tangle in a dangerous web of secrets, scandal and lies. But with both women determined to make Ari theirs alone, the stakes are high. How far will they go for true love?