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On What Cathy Read Next last week

Monday – I shared My Five Favourite March 2023 Reads.

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic put a spotlight on self-published/indie press books and I selected Ten Books From Independent Publishers. 

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 short story collection, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu, one of the books shortlisted for the Swansea University Dyland Thomas Prize 2023.

Friday – I shared my review of historical mystery, The Drums of War (Thomas Tallant #3) by Michael Ward. 

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New arrivals

Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo (eARC, Canongate via NetGalley)

The Marte women are preparing for a gathering that will change their lives forever

Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides to host her own living wake – bringing together her family and community to celebrate her long life – her sisters Matilde, Pastora and Camila are concerned. What has she foreseen?

But Flor isn’t the only one with a secret. Matilde has tried to hide the extent of her husband’s infidelity for years, and now must confront the true state of her marriage. Pastora – always on a mission to solve her sisters’ problems – needs to come to terms with her past. And Camila, the youngest sibling, has decided she no longer wants to be taken for granted. Alongside their struggles, the next generation of Marte women face their own tumult of family obligations, infertility, and heartache.

Spanning the three days prior to the wake, Family Lore traces the intertwining stories of these sisters and cousins, mothers and daughters, aunts and nieces, to ask the ultimate question: what does it take to live a good life, for yourself and those you love?

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On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

• Book Review: Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes
• Book Review: The Sinner’s Mark by S. W. Perry
• Book Review: The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry 

On What Cathy Read Next last week

Monday – I published my review of Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry.

Tuesday – I shared my publication day review of science fiction novel, A Brief History of Living Forever by Jaroslav Kalfar.  

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. 

Saturday – I took part in the #6Degrees of Separation meme forging a literary chain from Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen to Death of a Gossip by M. C. Beaton. 

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New arrivals

The Blood of Others by Graham Hurley (eARC, Head of Zeus via NetGalley)

Dieppe, August 1942. A catastrophe no headline dared admit.

Plans are underway for the boldest raid yet on Nazi-occupied France. Over six thousand men will storm ashore to take the port of Dieppe. Lives will change in an instant – both on the beaches and in distant capitals.

Annie Wrenne, working at Lord Mountbatten’s cloak-and-dagger Combined Operations headquarters, is privy to the top secret plans for the daring cross-Channel raid.

Young Canadian journalist George Hogan, protege of influential Lord Beaverbrook, faces a crucial assignment that will test him to breaking point.

And Abwehr intelligence officer Wilhelm Schultz is baiting a trap to lure thousands of Allied troops to their deaths…

Three lives linked by Operation Jubilee: the Dieppe Raid, 19 August 1942. Over six thousand men will storm the heavily defended French beaches. Less than half of them will make it back alive.

The Wall (City of Victory #3) by Adrian Goldsworthy (eARC, Head of Zeus via NetGalley)

Britannia, AD 117: Roman centurion Flavius Ferox is trying to live a quiet life of dignified leisure, overseeing his wife’s estate and doing his best to resist the urge to murder an annoying neighbour – until someone else does it for him. Dragged back into a life of violence, Ferox finds himself chasing raiders, fighting chieftains and negotiating with kings, journeying far into the north just as war breaks out.

With the new emperor, Hadrian, sending agents from Rome, the whole world seems to be changing: old friends become enemies, enemies claim they are friends, and new and deadly threats lurk in the shadows.

When, five years later, Hadrian himself comes to Britannia to inspect his great wall, a new war erupts suddenly, dividing tribes and families. Ferox is the only one who can save the emperor – but with his family, and his own life, in danger, Ferox must first decide whose side he is on…

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On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

• Book Review: God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu
• Book Review: The Drums of War (Thomas Tallant #3) by Michael Ward
• Book Review: Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes
• My Five Favourite March 2023 Reads