This Week in Books is a feature hosted by Lipsy at Lipsyy Lost and Found that allows bloggers to share:
- What they’ve recently finished reading
- What they are currently reading
- What they are planning to read next
The last book I finished reading The Corset by Laura Purcell. Thanks to those of you who convinced me to go ahead with the plan – I think that this is my favourite of Purcell’s novels!
Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain?
Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor and awaiting trial for murder.
When Dorothea’s charitable work leads her to Oakgate Prison, she finds herself drawn to Ruth, a teenage seamstress – and self-confessed murderess – who nurses a dark and uncanny secret. A secret that is leading her straight to the gallows. As Ruth reveals her disturbing past to Dorothea, the fates of these two women entwine, and with every revelation, a new layer of doubt is cast…
Can Ruth be trusted? Is she mad, or a murderer?
I’m currently reading The Secrets of Strangers by Charity Norman.
A regular weekday morning veers drastically off-course for a group of strangers whose paths cross in a London café – their lives never to be the same again when an apparently crazed gunman holds them hostage. But there is more to the situation than first meets the eye and as the captives grapple with their own inner demons, the line between right and wrong starts to blur. Will the secrets they keep stop them from escaping with their lives?
My next book might – after last week’s success, maybe I should be more confident! – be Black Powder War by Naomi Novik.
Naomi Novik’s stunning series of novels follow the adventures of Captain Laurence and his dragon Temeraire as they travel from the shores of Britain to China and Africa.
Before Captain Will Laurence can prepare his crew for the slow voyage home from China, new orders arrive for him and his dragon, Temeraire: they must fly home immediately, stopping only in Istanbul to collect three priceless dragon eggs, purchased by the British government from the Ottoman Empire.
But the cross-continental journey is fraught with danger; not only will they have to scale mountains and traverse vast hostile deserts, but a Machiavellian herald precedes them, spreading political menace in her wake. Holding Temeraire responsible for the death of her princely companion, Lien has absconded from China consumed by vengeance. If she can, she will destroy everything and everyone Temeraire loves.
And that’s my week in books! What are you reading this week? Let me know in the comments! 😎
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I really want to read The Secret of Strangers!
Really enjoying it so far! Not quite what I expected, but in a good way! x
That’s great! x
I was just going to write exactly the same thing!
Worth adding it to the list!
I hope you’re enjoying The Secrets of Strangers. I read it recently and thought it was brilliant. I’m currently reading The Catch by TM Logan, which is gripping and really hard to put down.
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REALLY enjoying The Secrets of Strangers – not quite what I was expecting, but in a good way! The Catch sounds brilliant 🙂
The Secrets of Strangers sounds awesome! Happy reading! xx
I really enjoyed it. A really interesting take on a hostage situation 🙂