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On What Cathy Read Next last week

Monday – I shared an extract from historical adventure novel Ranger by Timothy Ashby.  

Tuesday – I published my review of Ghosts of Spring by Luis Carrasco.

Wednesday – I published my review of historical novel Love in a Time of War by Adrienne Chinn as part of the blog tour. Plus WWW Wednesday is my 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 publication day review of These Days by Lucy Caldwell set in WW2 Belfast.

Friday – I chose my Five Favourite February 2022 Reads.

Saturday – I took part in the monthly #6Degrees of Separation meme forging a chain from The End of the Affair by Graham Greene to The Mirror Game by Guy Gardner (GG to GG).

Sunday – I published my review of historical novel Sell Us The Rope by Stephen May as part of the blog tour.

Phew, busy week! As always, thanks to everyone who has liked, commented on or shared my blog posts on social media.

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New arrivals

Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris (eARC, Duckworth)

Sarajevo, Spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city into ethnic enclaves; each morning, the residents – whether Muslim, Croat or Serb – push the makeshift barriers aside.

When violence finally spills over, Zora, an artist and teacher, sends her husband and elderly mother to safety with her daughter in England. Reluctant to believe that hostilities will last more than a handful of weeks, she stays behind while the city falls under siege. As the assault deepens and everything they love is laid to waste, black ashes floating over the rooftops, Zora and her friends are forced to rebuild themselves, over and over. Theirs is a breathtaking story of disintegration, resilience and hope.

The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh  (ARC, Sphere)

On New Year’s Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. His lakeside holiday homes are a success, and he’s generously invited the village to drink champagne with their wealthy new neighbours. This will be the party to end all parties. But not everyone is there to celebrate. By midnight, Rhys will be floating dead in the freezing waters of the lake.

On New Year’s Day, DC Ffion Morgan has a village full of suspects. The tiny community is her home, so the suspects are her neighbours, friends and family – and Ffion has her own secrets to protect. With a lie uncovered at every turn, soon the question isn’t who wanted Rhys dead . . . but who finally killed him.

In a village with this many secrets, a murder is just the beginning. 

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On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

• Book Review: Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson 
• Blog Tour/Book Review: Crow Court by Andy Charman 
• Blog Tour/Book Review: A Night of Flames by Matthew Harffy

On What Cathy Read Next last week

Monday – I went Down the TBR Hole in a rather unsuccessful effort to weed some books from my To-Read shelf on Goodreads.  

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Dynamic Duos and I shared detective duos from some of my favourite historical crime series. 

Wednesday – I published my review of crime novel Unhinged by Thomas Enger and Jørn Lier Horst as part of the blog tour. Plus WWW Wednesday is my 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 Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn.

Friday – I published reviews of spy thriller The Matchmaker by Paul Vidich and contemporary romance The One by Claire Frost, both as part of blog tours. 

Saturday – I ventured Down the TBR Hole again with significantly more success than last time.

As always, thanks to everyone who has liked, commented on or shared my blog posts on social media.

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New arrivals

The Capsarius (Legion XXII #1) by Simon Turney (eARC, Head of Zeus)

Egypt. 25 BC. Titus Cervianus and the Twenty Second Deiotariana have been sent to deal with uprisings and chaos in Egypt. Yet the Twenty Second is no ordinary legion. Founded as the private royal army of one of Rome’s most devoted allies, the king of Galatia, their ways are not the same as the other legions, a factor that sets them apart and causes friction with their fellow soldiers.

Cervianus is no ordinary soldier, either. A former surgeon from the city of Ancyra, he’s now a capsarius – a combat medic. Cervianus is a pragmatist, a scientist, and truly unpopular with his legion.

Marching into the unknown, Cervianus will find unexpected allies in a local cavalryman and a troublesome lunatic. Both will be of critical importance as the young medic marches into the searing sands of the south, finding forbidden temples, dark assassins, vicious crocodiles, and worst of all, the warrior queen of Kush…

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson (Viking)

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists – he a photographer, she a dancer – trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them.

Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence.

At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body, to be vulnerable when you are only respected for strength, to find safety in love, only to lose it. 

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On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

• Extract: Ranger by Timothy Ashby
• Book Review: Ghosts of Spring by Luis Carrasco
• Blog Tour/Book Review: Love in a Time of War by Adrienne Chinn 
• Book Review: These Days by Lucy Caldwell
• #6Degrees of Separation
• Blog Tour/Book Review: Sell Us The Rope by Stephen May