On What Cathy Read Next last week
Blog posts
Monday – I joined the blog tour for The Other You by J. S. Monroe.
Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was a freebie on the theme of Book Covers and I chose to focus on covers featuring flora and fauna.
Wednesday – WWW Wednesday is the opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next…and have a good nose around to see what other bloggers are reading.
Thursday – I shared my review of Sir Quixote of the Moorsby John Buchan.
Friday – I published my review of Katherine by Anya Seton.
Saturday – I took part in the monthly Six Degrees of Separation meme forging a chain from Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner to The American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear.
As always, thanks to everyone who has liked, commented on or shared my blog posts on social media this week.
New arrivals
How To Belong by Sarah Franklin (eARC, courtesy of Zaffre and NetGalley)
In the follow up to her acclaimed novel Shelter, Sarah Franklin returns to the Forest of Dean, this time exploring what it means to belong to a rural community in a rapidly changing world.
Jo grew up in the Forest of Dean, but she was always the one destined to leave for a bigger, brighter future. When her parents retire from their butcher’s shop, she returns to her beloved community to save the family legacy, hoping also to save herself. But things are more complex than the rose-tinted version of life which sustained Jo from afar.
Tessa is a farrier, shoeing horses two miles and half a generation away from Jo, further into the forest. Tessa’s experience of the community couldn’t be more different. Now she too has returned, in flight from a life she could have led, nursing a secret and a past filled with guilt and shame.
Compelled through circumstance to live together, these two women will be forced to confront their sense of identity, and reconsider the meaning of home.
The Sea Gate by Jane Johnson (eARC, courtesy of Head of Zeus and NetGalley)
After the death of her mother, Rebecca begins the sad task of sorting through her empty flat. Starting with the letters piling up on the doormat, she finds an envelope post-marked from Cornwall. In it is a letter that will change her life forever. A desperate plea from her mother’s elderly cousin, Olivia, to help save her beloved home.
Rebecca arrives at Chynalls to find the house crumbling into the ground and Olivia stuck in hospital with no hope of being discharged until her home is made habitable.
Though slightly daunted, Rebecca sets to work. But as she peels back the layers of paint, plaster and grime, she uncovers secrets buried for more than seventy years. Secrets from a time when Olivia was young, the Second World War was raging, and danger and romance lurked round every corner…
A Registry Of My Passage Upon The Earth by Daniel Mason (proof copy courtesy of Mantle Books)
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner, a collection of interlaced tales of men and women as they face the mysteries and magic of the world
On a fateful flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in Regency London, a bare-knuckle fighter prepares to face his most fearsome opponent, while a young mother seeks a miraculous cure for her ailing son.
At times funny and irreverent, always moving and deeply urgent, these stories – among them a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize winner – cap a fifteen-year project. From the Nile’s depths to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, from volcano-racked islands to an asylum on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, these are tales of ecstasy, epiphany, and what the New York Times Magazine called the “struggle for survival…hand to hand, word to word,” by “one of the finest prose stylists in American fiction.”
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Top Ten Tuesday: Books In My TBR I Predict Will Be 5* Reads
- Waiting on Wednesday
- Book Review: Burning Cold by Lisa Lieberman
- Blog Tour/Spotlight: Inexpressible Island by Paullina Simons
- Blog Tour/Book Review: The Bermondsey Bookshop by Mary Gibson
- Book Review: Requiem for a Knave by Laura Carlin
- Buchan of the Month: Introducing… John Burnet of Barns
The Time Machine by H G Wells (audiobook)
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