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#TopTenTuesday Most Recent Additions To My Book Collection

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Top Ten Tuesday new

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 Book Collection. This is a constantly changing list but here are the ten latest arrivals at the time of writing. Links from the titles will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

The Mirror Game by Guy Gardner – a digital review copy for a blog tour, a mystery set in 1920s London 
Yinka, where is your huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn – a proof copy of a book due to be published at the end of March and described as ‘a beautiful, big hearted story about friendship, family, and love’. 
Sell Us The Rope by Stephen May – a digital review copy for a blog tour, a historical novel set in 1907 described as a ‘brilliant tale of revolutionary shenanigans in London’ 
The Streets by Anthony Quinn – a book I purchased after reading Eureka, this one is set in Victorian London and was nominated for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2013*
Rose Nicolson by Andrew Greig – a historical novel set in 16th century Scotland that is getting rave reviews*
The Magician by Colm Toibin – a fictionalised account of the life of writer Thomas Mann*
The Silver Wolf by J. C. Harvey – courtesy of a Readers First giveaway, the first book in a series set in the Thirty Years War
April in Spain by John Banville – a charity shop find, the follow-up to historical crime novel, Snow (which I still have to read)
The Physician’s Daughter by Martha Conway – a digital copy via NetGalley, a historical novel set just after the end of the American Civil War
The Dust Bowl Orphans by Suzette D. Harrison – a digital copy via NetGalley for a blog tour, a dual time novel set in Oklahoma in 1935 and California in the present day

*purchased thanks to the lovely people who gave me Waterstones gift cards for Christmas

 

#WWWWednesday – 5th January 2022

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WWWWednesdays

Hosted by Taking on a World of Words, this meme is all about the three Ws:

  • What are you currently reading?
  • What did you recently finish reading?
  • What do you think you’ll read next?

Why not join in too?  Leave a comment with your link at Taking on a World of Words and then go blog hopping!

Currently reading

The Ends of the Earth PBThe Ends of the Earth by Abbie Greaves (ARC, Penguin)

Some love stories change us for ever.

For the last seven years, Mary O’Connor has waited for her first love. Every evening she arrives at Ealing Broadway station and stands with a sign which simply says: ‘Come Home Jim.’

Commuters might pass her by without a second thought, but Mary isn’t going anywhere. Until an unexpected call turns her world on its head.

It will take the help of a young journalist called Alice, and a journey across the country, for Mary to face what happened all those years ago.

Only with the help of others will she finally be able to answer the question: where on earth is Jim?

Recently finished

Wahala by Nikki May (Doubleday)

The Cornish Captive by Nicola Pryce (Corvus)

Betrayal (The Englishman #2) by David Gilman (Head of Zeus)

What Cathy (will) Read Next

Jane's Country YearJane’s Country Year by Malcolm Saville (ARC, Handheld Press) 

‘At last she reached the brow of the hill … now the country opened out below her and she looked down into a wide and lovely valley … Still patched with snow the little fields spread like a carpet below her and here and there a farmhouse with barns and golden ricks was clearly seen. Across the plain ran, straight as a ruler, a railway line and she saw a toy train puffing and crawling across the picture.’

Malcolm Saville’s classic novel is about eleven-year old Jane’s discovery of nature and country life during a year spent convalescing on her uncle’s farm, after having been dangerously ill in post-war London. This deeply-felt novel was written while Saville was extending his range as a writer, alongside his very successful Lone Pine adventure series, and nature anthologies for children. Inspired by the experiences of Saville’s own god-daughter, this marvellous novel is full of the wonder of discovery, as well the happiness of regaining health, making friends, and learning to love the natural world. The novel is also a record of rural England eighty years ago, written by one of the great twentieth century English nature writers.