Tag: Monthly update

My Five Favourite August Reads

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I read eighteen books in August. Yes, I was amazed by that figure too. It just goes to show how ARC August and the final month of the 20 Books of Summer Reading Challenge can get you powering through the books! And there was quality amongst the quantity as well, so much so it was a tough job picking just five. Links from the titles will take you to my reviews.

V For Victory by Lissa Evans (Doubleday) – following on from Old Baggage and Crooked Heart, a heart- warming story set in WW2 London

The Scarlet Code by C. S. Quinn (Corvus) – the exciting second book in the series set in Revolutionary France and featuring English spy Attica Morgan

The Night of Shooting Stars by Ben Pastor (Bitter Lemon Press) – the latest book in the Martin Bora series set in WW2 Berlin

The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce (Doubleday) – another emotional but uplifting story from the author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Fortress of Fury by Matthew Harffy (Aries Fiction) – the latest action-packed instalment in the Bernicia Chronicles series set in Anglo-Saxon Britain

What were your favourite reads last month? Have you read any of my picks?

You can find details of all the books I’ve read so far in 2020  here with links to my reviews.  If we’re not already friends on Goodreads, send me a friend request or follow my reviews.

My Five Favourite July Reads

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favouriteCovid19 restrictions continue to be eased here in the UK. I’m happy to say that included the reopening of hairdressers so I was finally able to get my hair cut by the lovely Leanne at my local salon.

I read thirteen books in July and there were some cracking ones amongst them. Below are my five favourite. Links from the titles will take you to my reviews.

Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees (HarperCollins) – An ordinary woman. A book of recipes. The perfect cover for spying…

Munich by Robert Harris (Hutchinson) – September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich.

The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon (Penguin Modern Classics) – a fascinating insight into the experiences of immigrants to Britain in the 1960s

The Englishman by David Gilman (Head of Zeus) – a quest for vengeance that will lead to the winter-ravaged wasteland of the Sverdlovskaya Oblast and Penal Colony #74, a place that holds Russia’s most brutal murderers

Paris Savages by Katherine Johnson (Allison & Busby) – “a work of imagination” inspired by the little-known true story of three Aboriginal people taken from their home to Europe as living exhibits in 1882-83

What were your favourites of the books you read in July? Have you read any of my picks?

You can find details of all the books I’ve read so far in 2020 here with links to my reviews.  If we’re not already friends on Goodreads, send me a friend request or follow my reviews.