My Week in Books – 30th June 2024

My Week in Books

On What Cathy Read Next last week

Monday – I published my review of The Days Of Our Birth by Charlie Laidlaw.

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Most Anticipated Books Releasing During the Second Half of 2024.

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 The Housekeepers by Alex Hay. 

Saturday – I shared my review of The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry.


New arrivals

The Bee StingThe Bee Sting by Paul Murray (ebook, Penguin)

The Barnes family are in trouble. Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now they’re teetering on the brink of bankruptcy – and that’s just the start of their problems.

Dickie and Imelda’s marriage is hanging by a thread; straight-A student Cass is careening off the rails; PJ is hopelessly in debt to the school bully. Meanwhile the ghosts of old mistakes are rising out of the past to meet them, but everyone’s too wrapped up in the present to see the danger looming . . .


On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading


Planned posts

  • Book Review: In This Ravishing World by Nina Schuyler
  • Book Review: Alvesdon by James Holland
  • #6Degrees of Separation
  • My Five Favourite June 2024 Reads
  • Blog Tour/Book Review: Dead Ground by Graham Hurley

My Week in Books – 23rd June 2024

My Week in Books

On What Cathy Read Next last week

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Books On My Summer 2024 To-Read List.

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 A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering by Andrew Hunter Murray

Saturday – I chatted to author Rachel Healey about her historical novel, Our Silent Footsteps.


New arrivals

Berlin DuetBerlin Duet by S.W. Perry (eARC, Corvus via NetGalley)

In 1938, English spy Harry Taverner and Jewish photographer Anna Cantrell spend the night dancing at Berlin’s most elegant hotel. Anna is married to another man, the Nazi shadow is rising over Europe and neither expects to ever meet again.

But once peace is declared, they reunite in the ruins of Berlin, where Anna is searching for her missing children. With the blockade tightening and the Soviets set on conquest, Harry and Anna walk a treacherous line between love and duty, integrity and survival, loyalty and betrayal. And as the Cold War dawns, they are bound together by a secret that will only be revealed decades later, when Berlin finds itself on the cusp of another transformation…


On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading


Planned posts

  • Book Review: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
  • Book Review: Alvesdon by James Holland
  • Book Review: The Days of Our Birth by Charlie Laidlaw