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On What Cathy Read Next last week

Tuesday – My take on this week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Bookish Relationships.

Wednesday – As always WWW Wednesday is a weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading.

Thursday – I published my review of Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts, one of the books on my list for the 20 Books of Summer reading challenge.

Friday – I shared my review of The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable.

Saturday – I published my review of Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan.

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New arrivals

Meadowlands Dawn by Jo Beall (eARC, epoque press)

Imprisoned by the apartheid regime in South Africa, Verity Saunders endures the daily degradation of her incarceration whilst coming to terms with the disappearance of her activist lover, Tariq Randeree.

Thirty years later, Verity sets out to uncover the truth about her past and to confront those who brutalised and betrayed her. As secrets are exposed she learns that in order to truly heal she must embrace the path of forgiveness.

Meadowlands Dawn is inspired by the author’s own experience as a political prisoner in apartheid South Africa during the 1980s. It explores the desires and indignities of the human heart and deals with the impact of radicalisation and its aftermath.

Eye of the Raven (The Whale Road Chronicles #7) by Tim Hodkinson (eARC, Head of Zeus via NetGalley)

For the first time, Einar and the Wolf Coats find themselves divided, on opposing sides in a time of warfare: the Wolf Coats in Ireland, and Einar in the Saxon domains of England.

Einar leads a warband for King Aethelstan, but struggles to find acceptance as a Norseman in Saxon lands. Can he truly make common cause with the wily king of the English, if that means Vikings like himself are now his enemies? The rewards of alliance with Aethelstan could be all he desires… or a brutal death.

But other threats loom from the north and west. With war brewing and a great battle on the horizon, can Einar and his comrades reunite in time – or will a clash for the ages make their split a permanent one?

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On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

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Planned posts

• Book Review: Six Lives by Lavie Tidhar

On What Cathy Read Next last week

Monday – I published my review of inventive short story collection, normal rules don’t apply by Kate Atkinson.

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Planes, Trains and Automobiles/Books Featuring Travel.

Wednesday – As always WWW Wednesday is a weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading.

Friday – I published my review of historical novel, Berlin Duet by S. W. Perry.

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New arrivals

Terra Incognita by Simon Turney (Aries Fiction via NetGalley)

61 AD. Under Emperor Nero, Rome is rich and powerful, but dissatisfaction is rife. The emperor himself schemes avidly to increase his wealth and indulge his pleasures – and slaughter his many enemies – but also seeks glory.

The great River Nile, life-giver to the Egyptians, the Kushites, and many other kingdoms through the African continent. Nobody from the Roman Empire has ever tracked the Nile to its source… but if it can be done, mastery of the greatest waterway in the known world – and with it, the control of friend and foe alike – may be possible.

But the price of obtaining such knowledge will be terrible. Those soldiers selected to command and serve on the mission will be at risk the moment they pass beyond the Roman borders of Egypt. Kingdoms and tribes hostile to Rome, vast swathes of desert, fierce beasts… and the price of failure hanging over their heads, for Nero is not an easy man to please.

Hemlock Bay (Rachel Savernake #5) by Martin Edwards (Aries Fiction via NetGalley)

Basil Palmer has decided to murder a man called Louis Carson. There’s only one he doesn’t know anything about his intended victim, not who he is or where he lives.

Basil learns that Carson owns Hemlock Bay, a resort for the wealthy and privileged. Knowing that his plan will only work if he covers his tracks, he invents a false identity and, posing as Dr Seamus Doyle, journeys to the coast plotting murder along the way.

Meanwhile Rachel Savernake buys an intriguing painting of a place called Hemlock Bay, one that she cannot get out of her head. Macabre and strange, the image shows a shape that seems to represent a dead body lying on the beach.

Convinced that there is something sinister lurking amongst the glamour of the bay, Rachel books a cottage there – where she meets a mysterious doctor called Seamus Doyle…

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On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

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Planned posts

• Book Review: Heart, Be At Peace by Donal Ryan
• Book Review: The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable