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
A book for #ARCAugust and one of my 20 Books of Summer
A Little London Scandal by Miranda Emmerson (eARC, courtesy of 4th Estate via NetGalley)
Nik felt the mistake in his bones. The man in the snakeskin suit reached down towards him and pulled Nik upright by the collar of his coat. Nik didn’t see what happened next but he felt the wall. He cried out and then someone hit him and he closed his eyes and waited for it to be over.
London, 1967. Nik Christou has been a rent boy since he was 15. He knows the ins and outs of Piccadilly Circus, how to spot a pretty policeman and to interpret a fleeting glance. One summer night his life is turned upside down, first by violence and then by an accusation of murder.
Anna Treadway, fleeing the ghosts of her past, works as a dresser in Soho’s Galaxy theatre. She has learned never to place too much trust in the long arm of the law and, convinced Nik is innocent she determines to find him an alibi.
Merrian Wallis, devoted wife to an MP with a tarnished reputation, just wants proof that her husband couldn’t have been involved.
But how do you recognise the truth when everyone around you is playing a role – and when any spark of scandal is quickly snuffed out by those with power? As Anna searches for clues amongst a cast of MPs, actors, members of gentlemen’s clubs and a hundred different nightly clients, will anyone be willing to come forward and save Nik from his fate?
The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk – as long as it’s vinyl he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his customers the music they need.
Then into his life walks Ilse Brauchmann. Ilse asks Frank to teach her about music. His instinct is to turn and run. And yet he is drawn to this strangely still, mysterious woman with her pea-green coat and her eyes as black as vinyl. But Ilse is not what she seems. And Frank has old wounds that threaten to re-open and a past he will never leave behind…
Recently finished
Links from the title will take you to my review.
Katheryn Howard: The Tainted Queen (Six Tudor Queens #5) by Alison Weir (eARC, courtesy of Headline via NetGalley)
The Girl from Vichy by Andie Newton (eARC, courtesy of Head of Zeus via NetGalley)
The Wanderers (The West Country Trilogy #2) by Tim Pears (audiobook)
What Cathy (will) Read Next
The Night of Shooting Stars (Martin Bora #7) by Ben Pastor (eARC, courtesy of Bitter Lemon Press and Random Things Tours)
Bora is ordered to investigate the murder of Walter Niemeyer, a dazzling clairvoyant, a star since the days of the Weimar Republic. For years he has mystified Germany with his astounding prophecies. Bora’s inquiry, supported by former S.A member Florian Grimm, resurrects memories of the excessive and brilliant world of Jazz Age cabarets and locales. Around them, in the oppressive summer heat, constant allied bombing, war-weary Berlin teems with refugees and nearly a million foreign labourers.
Soon Bora realizes that there is much more at stake than murder in a paranoid city where everyone suspects everyone, and where persistent rumours whisper about a conspiracy aimed at the very heart of the Nazi hierarchy. Could the charming Emmy Pletsch, who works for Claus von Stauffenberg, be a key to understanding what is going on? Bora eventually meets with Stauffenberg, facing an anguishing moral dilemma, as a German soldier and as a man.
Hope you’re enjoying A Little London Scandal, Cathy. Very atmospheric!
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Looking forward to your review of The Music Shop, a book I’ve had my eye on for ages!
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I finished it this morning so I’m hoping to have my review up tomorrow or more likely Friday 😁 It was a real feelgood read.
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Brilliant!
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I really enjoyed Rachel Joyce’s “The Music Shop”. Great titles Cathy.
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A Little London Scandal grabbed my attention. Thanks for sharing…and for visiting my blog. Enjoy your week.
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I love a good Tudor story but haven’t read any Alison Weir, only Philippa Gregory. Will have to give her a go soon 😊
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The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce sounds really interesting. I hope you like your next read.
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The Music Shop sounds so good. I hope you are enjoying it!! Happy Reading!
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Careful… I cried my eyes out at the end of The Music Shop! Damn that Rachel Joyce! She does it to me EVERY time!
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I finished it yesterday evening. I knew someone had advised me to have tissues at the ready.
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Did you need them? I couldn’t stop reading it, and I woke my husband up with my sobbing!!!
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I think I may have alarmed my husband when I punched the air during the shopping mall scene…Although, thankfully for him, I resisted joining in with the choral piece in question 😁
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YES! That’s when I cried…
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