My Week in Books – 13th November 2022

MyWeekinBooksOn What Cathy Read Next last week

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Book Series I’d Like To Finish

Wednesday – I published my review of futuristic thriller, The Coming Darkness by Greg Mosse, as part of the blog tour.  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 shared my review of historical novel Death to the Emperor by Simon Scarrow as part of the blog tour. 

Friday – I published my review of The Weather Woman by Sally Gardner.

Saturday – I joined other gardeners with my #SixonSaturday update.


New arrivals

Becoming TedBecoming Ted by Matt Cain (eARC, Headline via NetGalley)

Ted Ainsworth has always worked at his family’s ice-cream business in the quiet Lancashire town of St Luke’s-on-Sea.

But the truth is, he’s never wanted to work for the family firm – he doesn’t even like ice-cream, though he’s never told his parents that. When Ted’s husband suddenly leaves him, the bottom falls out of his world.

But what if this could be an opportunity to put what he wants first? This could be the chance to finally follow his secret dream: something Ted has never told anyone …

The Long Way HomeThe Long Way Home by Fanny Blake (Simon & Schuster)

When Isla, a 65-year-old grandmother, is left nothing but an old painting in her mother’s will, while her sisters and aunt inherit the estate, she is devastated. Close to retirement, getting ready to live on her own terms, the last thing she expects at this time of her life is such turmoil. So, to find an explanation for her mother’s rejection, she embarks on a road-trip.

But, right at the last moment, she’s forced to take her sullen – and, in her view, impossible – 14-year-old granddaughter Charlie with her. Cramped together in Isla’s car with her smelly old dog, these ill-assorted travelling companions set off to uncover some shattering and life-changing family truths at the same time as learning to love each other…

Day of the CaesarsDay of the Caesars (Eagles of the Empire #16) by Simon Scarrow (Headline)

AD 55. Veteran soldiers of the Roman army Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro have fought side by side in battles, skirmishes and sieges across the vast Roman Empire, from Britannia to Egypt, from Spain to Syria.

Proven to be heroic in battle and loyal to the death to each other and to their men, they are selected for the most dangerous missions, and given command of troops whose lives as well as the fate of the Empire depend on their military might and vision.

As the reign of Emperor Claudius ends, turmoil in Rome spreads unease across the globe, giving heart to the enemy. There could be no more deadly time to be far from home, even for the army’s most experienced officers… 


On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

  • Book Review: The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz
  • Book Review: Thea and Denise by Caroline Bond 

My Week in Books – 6th November 2022

MyWeekinBooksOn What Cathy Read Next last week

Monday – I shared my proposed reading list for #NetGalleyNovember and published my review of historical novel The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph.

Tuesday – I shared My Five Favourite October 2022 Reads

WednesdayWWW 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 made another trip Down the TBR Hole.

Friday – I published my review of Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie.

Saturday – I took part in the #6Degreesof Separation meme forging a chain from The Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver to These Days by Lucy Caldwell. (Click on the link to find out how.)


New arrivals

Night-Time StoriesNight-Time Stories edited by Yen-Yen Lu (eARC, The Emma Press)

A child waits for the tooth fairy; a mother spends a night watching a recording of the previous night; two women face the ghosts that haunted their grandmothers. The nights in these ten stories are thick and substantial, ambiguous and alluring.

Eerie, magical, hushed and surprisingly alive, this anthology shows the night as a place where connections are made and daylit lives can be changed.

With stories from Valentine Carter, John Kitchen, Winifred Mok, Leanne Radojkovich, Angela Readman, Jane Roberts, Rebecca Rouillard, Miyuki Tatsuma, Zoë Wells and Sofija Ana Zovko.


On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

  •  Book Review: The Weather Woman by Sally Gardner
  • Book Review: Mother of Valor by Gary Corbin
  • Blog Tour/Book Review: The Coming Darkness by Greg Mosse
  • Blog Tour/Book Review: Death to the Emperor by Simon Scarrow