What Cathy Read 2021

Here’s a list of the books I read in 2021. Links from the title will take you to my review.

The Push by Ashley Audrain
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
Connectedness (Identity Detective #2) by Sandra Danby
Artist, Lover, Soldier, Muse by Arthur D. Hittner
Children’s Fate (Meonbridge Chronicles #4) by Carolyn Hughes
The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #2) by Ambrose Parry
Game of the Gods by Paolo Maurensig
Forgotten Lives by Ray Britain
To The Dark (Simon Westow #3) by Chris Nickson
A Prince and a Spy by Rory Clements
The Dead of Winter by S. J. Parris
Mint by S. R. Wilsher
Saving The World – Women: The Twenty-First Century’s Factor For Change by Paola Diana
Dublin’s Girl by Eimear Lawlor
Land of the Living by Georgina Harding
When The World Was Ours by Liz Kessler
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Girl at the Back of the Bus by Suzette D. Harrison
The Diplomat’s Wife by Michael Ridpath
Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Madam by Phoebe Wynne
She Came To Stay by Eleni Kyriacou
The Northern Reach by W. S. Winslow
The Art of the Assassin by Kevin Sullivan
The Garden of Angels by David Hewson
Nick by Michael Farris Smith
Masters of Rome (Rise of Emperors #2) by Gordon Doherty & Simon Turney
Dangerous Women by Hope Adams
The High-Rise Diver by Julia von Lucadou
Stella by Takis Wurger
A Lifetime of Men by Ciahnan Darrell
Saving Missy by Beth Morrey
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
The Incendium Plot (Christopher Radcliff #1) by A. D. Swanston
The Forgotten Life of Arthur Pettinger by Suzanne Fortin
The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs #16) by Jacqueline Winspear
Blood Runs Thicker (Bradecote and Catchpoll #8) by Sarah Hawkswood
Where Stands A Wingèd Sentry by Margaret Kennedy
The Spanish Girl by Jules Hayes
You Let Me Go by Eliza Graham
There’s No Story There: Wartime Writing, 1944-45 by Inez Holden
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
A Book of Secrets by Kate Morrison
The Deception of Harriet Fleet by Helen Scarlett
The Drowned City (Daniel Pursglove #1) by K. J. Maitland
The Tuscan House by Angela Petch
After the Storm (A Giuseppe Bianchi Mystery 2) by Isabella Muir
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
The Metal Heart by Caroline Lea
Lost Property by Helen Paris
Don’t Turn Around by Jessica Barry
Together by Luke Adam Hawker
The Night Train to Berlin by Melanie Hudson
Skelton’s Guide to Suitcase Murders (Arthur Skelton #2) by David Stafford
Beyond This Broken Sky by Siobhan Curham
The Ice House by Laura Lee Smith
To The Fair Land by Lucienne Boyce
Charity by Madeline Dewhurst
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Heretic’s Mark (Jackdaw Mysteries #4) by S. W. Perry
Wayward Voyage by Anna M Holmes
A Hundred Million Years and a Day by Jean-Baptiste Andrea, translated by Sam Taylor
A Ration Book Daughter by Jean Fullerton
The Assistant by Kjell Ola Dahl, translated by Don Bartlett
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper
The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
The Hunting Season by Tom Benjamin
Pathfinders by Cecil Lewis
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
This Other Island by Steffanie Edward
Love and Miss Harris by Peter Maughan
Everyday Magic by Charlie Laidlaw
The Baby Is Mine by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Sword of Bone by Anthony Rhodes
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
Two Women In Rome by Elizabeth Buchan
This Is How We Are Human by Louise Beech
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré
The Serpent King by Tim Hodkinson
Mrs England by Stacey Halls
Everything Happens for a Reason by Katie Allen
The Fort (City of Victory #1) by Adrian Goldsworthy
Scandalous Alchemy by Katy Moran
Love and Fury by Samantha Silva
The Readers’ Room by Antoine Laurain
Yours Cheerfully by AJ Pearce
One Last Time by Helga Flatland
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur by Alka Joshi
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories edited by Margaret Jull Costa
This Shining Life by Harriet Kline
Business As Usual by Jane Oliver & Ann Stafford
Those I Have Lost by Sharon Maas
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
For Lord and Land (The Bernicia Chronicles #8) by Matthew Harffy
The Book of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka
Songbirds by Christy Lefteri
Kyiv by Graham Hurley
The Reading List by Saea Nisha Adams
Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
With Face Aflame by A.E. Walnofer
One August Night by Victoria Hislop
The Late Train to Gipsy Hill by Alan Johnson
Cecily by Annie Garthwaite
This Lovely City by Louise Hare
Three Little Truths by Eithne Shortall
The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan
Wolf at the Door by Sarah Hawkswood
Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
A Corruption of Blood by Ambrose Parry
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer
The Beloved Girls by Harriet Evans
A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz
Conrad Monk and the Great Heathen Army by Edoardo Albert
End of Summer by Anders de la Motte
Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks
Planet of Clay by Samar Yazbek
The Hidden Child by Louise Fein
The Unfortunate Englishman (Joe Wilderness #2) by John Lawton
Gallowstree Lane by Kate London
The Senator’s Darkest Days by Joan E. Histon
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
The Wrecking Storm (Thomas Tallant Mysteries 2) by Michael Ward
Three Words for Goodbye by Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb
Ghosts of the West (Drabble & Harris 3) by Alec Marsh
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
Blasted Things by Lesley Glaister
A Better Part of Valor (Valorie Dawes 3) by Gary Corbin
A Single Rose by Muriel Barbery
Daughters of War by Dinah Jefferies
The Improbable Adventures of Miss Emily Soldene by Helen Batten
The Shanghai Wife by Emma Harcourt
Splinter on the Tide by Phillip Parotti
The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings by Dan Jones
House of Beauty by Melba Escobar
The Redeemed by Tim Pears
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
To All the Living by Monica Felton
A Woman Made of Snow by Elisabeth Gifford
An Extra Pair of Hands: A Story of Caring, Ageing and Everyday Acts of Love by Kate Mosse
Cold As Hell by Lilja Sigurðardóttir
The Prince of the Skies by Antonio Iturbe
The Writer’s Cats by Muriel Barbery
The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta
The Mercies by Kiran Milwood Hargrave
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
Black Drop by Leonora Nattrass
Liberty Terrace by Madeleine D’Arcy
Born Of No Woman by Franck Bouysse
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
A Stranger from the Storm by William Burton McCormick
Sergeant Salinger by Jerome Charyn
A Memory For Murder (Selma Falck #3) by Anne Holt
The Girl from Bletchley Park by Kathleen McGurl
The Quiet People by Paul Cleave
Down A Dark River (Inspector Corravan #1) by Karen Odden
My Secret Sister by Lauren Westwood
Gods of Rome (Rise of Emperors #3) by Gordon Doherty & Simon Turney
Lily by Rose Tremain
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller
The Custard Corpses by M.J. Porter
The Red Monarch by Bella Ellis
Eureka by Anthony Quinn
White Dog by Rupert Whewell
The Dublin Railway Murder by Thomas Morris
No Way To Die by Tony Kent
The Bookseller’s Secret by Michelle Gable
Violets by Alex Hyde
Girl A by Abigail Dean
A Three Dog Problem by S. J. Bennett
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
Two Storm Wood by Philip Gray
The Room of the Dead by M.R.C. Kasasian
Sherlock Holmes & the Singular Affair by M.K. Wiseman
The Visitors by Caroline Scott
The Golden Girls’ Getaway by Judy Leigh
Where God Does Not Walk (Gregor Reinhardt #4) by Luke McCallin
The Lost Girl of Paris by Jina Bacarr
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
The Alphabet of Heart’s Desire by Brian Keaney
Hitler’s Taster (Her Hidden Life) by V. S. Alexander
The Last of Our Kind by Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre
Little by Edward Carey
The Pigeon Tunnel: A Stories From My Life by John le Carré
Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud
The Unquiet Heart by Kaite Welsh
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
Wahala by Nikki May

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