#TopTenTuesday Books On My Autumn 2023 To-Read List #TuesdayBookBlog

Top Ten Tuesday

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 Top Ten Tuesday topic Books on My Fall 2023 To-Read List. Here are mine (links from the title will take you to the book description on Goodreads):

A Day of Reckoning by Matthew Harffy – ‘The third thrilling historical adventure in the A Time for Swords series by Matthew Harffy, perfect for fans of Ben Kane, Simon Scarrow and Bernard Cornwell’
The Socialite Spy by Sarah Sigal – ‘London, 1936. Socialite and journalist Lady Pamela More pens the popular ‘Agent of Influence’ column, writing wittily about fashion and high society. For her latest piece, she interviews Wallis Simpson, the newly crowned king’s American mistress. That’s when she’s approached by MI5.’
Byron and Shelley by Glenn Haybittle – ‘Beautiful, moving and humorous, the stories are set all around the globe – spinning from Kansas City, Jerusalem, London, Venice, Prague and Hamburg to Florence, Memphis, Rome, Paris and Provence’
Sanctuary Motel by Alan Orloff‘Mess Hopkins, proprietor of the seen-better-days Fairfax Manor Inn, never met a person in need who couldn’t use a helping hand—his helping hand.’
Wolves of Winter (Essex Dogs #2) by Dan Jones‘For the Dogs, the war has only just begun.’
The Murder Wheel by Tom Mead – ‘a gripping locked-room mystery for fans of Golden Age crime fiction’
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri‘Once upon a time there was a beautiful village that held a million stories of love and loss and peace and war, and it was swallowed up by a fire that blazed up to the sky.’
Held by Anne Michaels – ‘a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds’ 
Run to the Western Shore by Tim Pears – ‘Set in Britain in AD 72, a tale of quest and struggle, but also an ode to the land and a love story about the reconciliation of opposites in times of need’
The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou by Eleni Kyriacou – ‘A compelling historical crime novel set in the Greek diaspora of 1950s London – that’s inspired by a true story’

I think I have a great few months of reading ahead of me… what about you?


#WWWWednesday – 13th September 2023

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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

Night Train to Marrakech IGNight Train to Marrakech (Daughters of War #3) by Dinah Jefferies (ARC, HarperCollins via Readers First)

MARRAKECH 1966. Vicky Baudin steps onto a train winding through Morocco, looking for the grandmother she has never met.

It’s an epic journey that’ll take her to the edge of Atlas Mountains – and closer to the answers she’s been craving all her life.

But dark secrets whisper amongst the dunes. And in unlocking the mystery of Clemence’s past, Vicky will unearth great danger too . . .

North WoodsNorth Woods by Daniel Mason (eARC, John Murray via NetGalley)

FOUR CENTURIES. A SINGLE HOUSE DEEP IN THE WOODS OF NEW ENGLAND.

A young Puritan couple on the run. An English soldier with a fantastic vision. Inseparable twin sisters. A lovelorn painter and a lusty beetle. A desperate mother and her haunted son. A ruthless con man and a stalking panther. Buried secrets. Madness, dreams and hope.

All are connected. The dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive.


Recently finished

The Mystery of Yew Tree House by Lesley Thomson (Head of Zeus)
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What Cathy (will) Read Next

The Storyteller by the SeaThe Storyteller by the Sea by Phyllida Shrimpton (ARC, Head of Zeus)

Melody spends her days combing the shore for items washed up on her beach. She collects them in her basket and takes them back to Spindrift, her weathered little bungalow overlooking the sea, and weaves stories about her treasures.

Everything Melody thinks she could ever need is right where she is, cupped by the rocks that shape her bay. But Melody has been keeping a secret…

When she learns that her little corner of Devon is under threat from developers looking to modernise the strip of coast on which Spindrift stands, Melody realises she is about to lose all she has ever known. Is it time for her to tell her own story – a story of love, loss, secrets and lies?