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#TopTenTuesday Fiction From Past to Present #TuesdayBookBlog

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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.

when-are-you-reading-2023This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is a freebie around the theme of genre. One of the reading challenges I’ve taken on this year is the When Are You Reading? Challenge 2023 hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. It involves reading a book set in one of twelve time periods. Inspired by that, here are ten novels set in ascending time periods from 25BC to the present day.

Links from each title will take you to my review.   

Pre-1200 – Bellatrix by Simon Turney
1200 to 1499 – The Painter of Souls by Philip Kazan
1500 to 1699 – Rivers of Treason by K. J. Maitland
1700 to 1799 – The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan
1800 to 1899 – A Gift of Poison by Bella Ellis
1900 to 1939 – Sepulchre Street by Martin Edwards 
1940 to 1959 – The English Führer by Rory Clements
1960 to 1979 – Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery
1980 to 1999 – Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry
2000 to 2023 – Ponti by Sharlene Teo

Do you have a favourite period for books to be set?

#WWWWednesday – 16th August 2023

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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 PostcardThe Postcard by Carly Schabowski (eARC, Bookouture)

When her beloved grandmother, Ilse , is taken into hospital, Mia drops everything to travel to Germany and care for the woman who raised her. But when her grandmother briefly wakes up and asks for a man called Szymon , Mia is confused. Who is he? And why does her grandmother need to see him so desperately?

Later that night, Mia returns to her grandmother’s apartment to search for clues. She soon discovers a small parcel hidden inside one of Ilse’s suitcases. When she removes the wrapping, she finds a stack of faded postcards neatly bound together, signed with a name that makes her heart stop in her Szymon .

Desperate to find Szymon before it is too late, Mia unearths a story her grandmother never told of childhood friendship and heartbreaking young love on the eve of the Second World War, and of a plan to rescue a young man imprisoned by the Nazis. Mia can’t quite believe her grandmother was so brave, and risked so much to save this man’s life… But did she succeed?

As the final pieces of the past come together, Mia realizes that she is about to find out what really happened to her grandmother during the war. But she doesn’t expect to uncover a secret that will change everything…

The Night RaidsThe Night Raids (Nighthawk #3) by Jim Kelly (Allison & Busby)

A lone German bomber crosses the east coast of Britain on a moonless night in the long, hot summer of 1940. The pilot picks up the silver thread of a river and, following it to his target, drops his bomb over Cambridge’s rail yards. The shell falls short of its mark and lands in a neighbourhood of terraced streets on the edge of the city’s medieval centre.

DI Eden Brooke is first on the scene and discovers the body of an elderly woman, Nora Wylde, in a house on Elm Street, two fingers on her left hand severed, in what looks like a brutal attempt by looters to steal her rings.

When the next day Nora’s teenage granddaughter Peggy, a munitions worker, is reported missing, Brooke realises there is more to the situation than meets the eye.

Recently finished

A Fenland Garden by Frances Pryor (Head of Zeus)

The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks (Hutchinson Heinemann)

Treason by James Jackson (Zaffre)

What Cathy (will) Read Next

China BlueChina Blue (Dudley Sisters #3) by Madalyn Morgan

At the beginning of World War II Claire Dudley joins the WAAF. She excels in languages and is recruited by the Special Operations Executive to work in German occupied France with Captain Alain Mitchell, of the RCAF, and the French Resistance.

Against SOE rules Claire falls in love. The affair has to be kept secret. Even after her lover falls into the hands of the Gestapo, Claire cannot tell anyone they are more than comrades.

As the war reaches its climax, Claire fears she will never again see the man she loves.