toptentuesday – Page 68 – What Cathy Read Next…

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 Secondary/Minor Characters Who Deserve Their Own Book. I’ve taken the easy way out and, instead of inventing my own, I’ve listed secondary characters from literature who have starred in their own novels.

Bertha Mason from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Charlotte Lucas from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in Charlotte by Helen Moffett
Abel Magwitch (sort of) from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations in Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
Clara Marley from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in Miss Marley by Vanessa Lafaye & Rebecca Mascull
Mrs Ahab mentioned in Moby Dick by Herman Melville in Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
Flashman from Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown’s School Days in Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
Lear’s unnamed wife from Shakespeare’s King Lear in Learwife by JR Thorp

And finally, from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novels:

Professor Moriarty in Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz
Irene Adler in Goodnight, Mr Holmes by Carole Nelson Douglas
Mrs Hudson in Mrs Hudson and the Spirit’s Curse by Martin Davies

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 Top Ten Tuesday topic Books on My Fall 2023 To-Read List. Here are mine (links from the title will take you to the book description on Goodreads):

A Day of Reckoning by Matthew Harffy – ‘The third thrilling historical adventure in the A Time for Swords series by Matthew Harffy, perfect for fans of Ben Kane, Simon Scarrow and Bernard Cornwell’
The Socialite Spy by Sarah Sigal – ‘London, 1936. Socialite and journalist Lady Pamela More pens the popular ‘Agent of Influence’ column, writing wittily about fashion and high society. For her latest piece, she interviews Wallis Simpson, the newly crowned king’s American mistress. That’s when she’s approached by MI5.’
Byron and Shelley by Glenn Haybittle – ‘Beautiful, moving and humorous, the stories are set all around the globe – spinning from Kansas City, Jerusalem, London, Venice, Prague and Hamburg to Florence, Memphis, Rome, Paris and Provence’
Sanctuary Motel by Alan Orloff – ‘Mess Hopkins, proprietor of the seen-better-days Fairfax Manor Inn, never met a person in need who couldn’t use a helping hand—his helping hand.’
Wolves of Winter (Essex Dogs #2) by Dan Jones – ‘For the Dogs, the war has only just begun.’
The Murder Wheel by Tom Mead – ‘a gripping locked-room mystery for fans of Golden Age crime fiction’
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri – ‘Once upon a time there was a beautiful village that held a million stories of love and loss and peace and war, and it was swallowed up by a fire that blazed up to the sky.’
Held by Anne Michaels – ‘a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds’
Run to the Western Shore by Tim Pears – ‘Set in Britain in AD 72, a tale of quest and struggle, but also an ode to the land and a love story about the reconciliation of opposites in times of need’
The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou by Eleni Kyriacou – ‘A compelling historical crime novel set in the Greek diaspora of 1950s London – that’s inspired by a true story’