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Monday – I published an introduction to my Buchan of the Month, Sir Quixote of the Moors by John Buchan.

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Most Recent Additions to my Bookshelf. I also joined the blog tour for A Messy Affair by Elizabeth Mundy.

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 Hitler’s Secretby Rory Clements.

Friday – I published my review of The Lady of the Ravens by Joanna Hickson.

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

The Widow’s Mite by Allie Creswell (ebook, courtesy of Rachel’s Random Resources)

Minnie Price lives in an impressive, gated mansion on a superior street in an affluent area of town. But in spite of the apparent comfort of her surroundings she has barely enough to keep body and soul together. She has retreated to a single room where she subsists on things bought as cheaply as possible or – better still – picked up for nothing. Her friends and neighbours are oblivious to her plight, too occupied with their do-goodery to see the need underneath their noses, while her unfeeling step-children do all they can to wrest from Minnie the little that she has.

Then one day, a caller arrives with what seems to be a life-line; a fund of money left behind by Minnie’s late husband of which her step-children know nothing. It is hers – legitimately hers – if only she can jump through the complex logistical hoops to release it.

The Time Machine by H G Wells (audiobook)

When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture – now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. But they have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity – the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist’s time machine vanishes, it becomes clear he must search these tunnels, if he is ever to return to his own era.

On What Cathy Read Next this week

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Planned posts

Top Ten Tuesday: Book Cover Freebie
Waiting on Wednesday
Book Review: Burning Cold by Lisa Lieberman
Blog Tour/Book Review: The Other You by J.S. Monroe
Book Review: Katherine by Anya Seton
Buchan of the Month/Book Review: Sir Quixote of the Moors

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post. Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists. Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is Most Recent Additions To My Bookshelf. My list includes new arrivals on my physical and digital bookshelves. Links from the book titles will take you to the full book description on Goodreads.

Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts (paperback, giveaway prize courtesy of Quercus) – “A richly imagined novel that tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum’s intrepid wife, Maud”

Wild Spinning Girls by Carol Lovekin (e-book, published by Honno Press) – “If it wasn’t haunted before she came to live there, after she died, Ty’r Cwmwl made room for her ghost”

Distorted Days by Louise Worthington (e-book) – “an exquisitely written account of the ways in which life can knock you off our feet – and how you can pick yourself up again.”

Stasi Winter by David Young (paperback, published by Zaffre) – “In 1978 East Germany, nothing is as it seems…”

A Messy Affair by Elizabeth Mundy (e-book, published by Constable) – Hungarian cleaner, Lena Szarka, investigates a suspicious death

Real Life by Adeline Dieudonne (paperback, published by World Editions) – a “gripping, dark coming of age novel”

When We Fall by Carolyn Kirby (review copy courtesy of No Exit) -“published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE Day, a moving story of three lives forever altered by one fatal choice”

The Convalescent Corpse by Nicola Slade (e-book, giveaway prize courtesy of the author) – “A story of family, rationing and inconvenient corpses”

The Other You by J.S. Monroe (e-book, published by Head of Zeus) – “Is he who you think he is?”

The Bermondsey Bookshop by Mary Gibson (e-book, published by Head of Zeus) – “Set in 1920s London, the inspiring story of Kate Goss’s struggle against poverty, hunger and cruel family secrets”