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#TopTenTuesday Books Added To My TBR Pile

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Top Ten Tuesday newTop 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 Books I’ve Added to my TBR and Forgotten Why. Now I know exactly why I add books to my TBR pile. It’s you lot, right? Yes, all you book bloggers out there. You will insist on reading books and then writing great reviews of them. And then sharing those reviews all over the place so I can’t help but see them. Or it’s those pesky authors who keep on writing irresistible books.

So I’ve gone slightly off-topic and listed the last ten books to join the many others in my To Be Read pile. (It excludes review copies and books for blog tours.) Recently I’ve decided to “reinvest” any Premium Bond wins into the purchase of books from small, independent publishers. (No begging letters, please; invariably they’re the £25 prize. If I ever hit the million pound jackpot, it will be a long, long list of books, and I will make a lot of authors, publishers and bookshops very happy 😁)

Business As Usual by Jane Oliver & Ann Stafford (Handheld Press)
Blitz Writing by Inez Holden (Handheld Press)
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Simon Mawer
Then We Take Berlin by John Lawton
Tidelands by Philippa Gregory
Anna of Kleve by Alison Weir
The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel
The Fortunate Englishman by John Lawton
All The Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy

What books have been added to your TBR pile recently?

When We Fall by Carolyn Kirby @noexitpress

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20191125_100338When We Fall by Carolyn Kirby will be published in paperback by No Exit Press on 7th May 2020 to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE Day. At the heart of the novel is the tragedy of the Katyn Massacre of 1940, in which over 22,000 Polish military officers were murdered on the orders of the Soviet Union. April 2020 marks the 80th anniversary of this horrific WWII crime.

Today is also the 10th anniversary of the Smolensk Air Disaster when an aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board, including Polish dignitaries on their way to commemorate the massacre.

Carolyn has recorded a video about the true story behind the novel and the only female victim of the massacre – Polish pilot Janina Lewandowska – on whom one of the characters in When We Fall is based.

No Exit Press have also released an early ebook edition of the novel which is available here and from online bookshops for only £1.99. Carolyn will also be speaking about When We Fall at a virtual bookclub on Thursday 7th May at 8pm. If you would like to take part, you can find more information  here.

Look out as well for the blog tour taking place in May including my review of When We Fall.