Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. For the rules see her blog.
This week’s topic: Most Anticipated Releases of the Second Half of 2019.
Beneath the Surface by Fiona Neill – 11 July
After a chaotic childhood, Grace Vermuyden is determined her own daughters will fulfil the dreams denied to her. Lilly is everyone’s golden girl, the popular, clever daughter she never had to worry about. So when she mysteriously collapses in class, Grace’s carefully ordered world begins to unravel.
The Bear Pit by S G MacLean – 11 July
The 4th book in the Seeker series, set in London in 1656, Captain Seeker is back in the city, on the trail of an assassin preparing to strike at the heart of Oliver Cromwell’s Republic.
The Sleepwalker by Joseph Knox – 11 July
The third book in the DC Aidan Waits series, set in Manchester. As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Waits sits on an abandoned hospital ward, watching a mass murderer slowly die. Transferred from his usual night shift duties and onto protective custody, he has just one job … to extract the location of Martin Wick’s final victim before the notorious mass murderer passes away.
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane – 8 August
A gripping and compassionate family drama set between neighbours in suburban New York – Gillam, upstate New York: a town of ordinary, big-lawned suburban houses. The Gleesons have recently moved there and soon welcome the Stanhopes as their new neighbours. Lonely Lena Gleeson wants a friend but Anne Stanhope – cold, elegant, unstable – wants to be left alone.
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell – 8 August
In a large house in London’s fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note. They’ve been dead for several days. Who has been looking after the baby? And where did they go?
Tidelands by Philippa Gregory – 20 August
Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast.
Alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life.
This Poison Will Remain by Fred Vargas – 20 August
This is the 9th in the Commissaire Adamsberg series. When three elderly men are poisoned by spider venom, everyone assumes that the deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.
The Art of Dying by Ambrose Parry – 29 August
Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson – a whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a patient in suspicious circumstances.
The Second Sleep by Robert Harris – 5 September
1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts – coins, fragments of glass, human bones – which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death?
The Institute by Stephen King – 10 September
Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark state facility where kids, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant to combine their exceptional gifts – telepathy, telekinesis – for concentrated effect.
Luke Ellis is the latest recruit. He’s just a regular 12-year-old, except he’s not just smart, he’s super-smart. And he has another gift which the Institute wants to use…
That Lisa Jewell plot is enticing….. But I’m also drawn to the Philippa Gregory since I’m on a bit of a British history binge for television entertainment at the moment, watching (again) that brilliant series with Simon Sharma
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I must have missed the repeat of Simon Schama’s series – is it on at the moment? I’ve enjoyed so many of his programmes!
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The Art of Dying sounds fascinating.
My TTT this week.
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I like his first book under that name – The Way of all Flesh – so I have high hopes for this one too.
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Heaven forfend, Margaret, I never should have clicked on this post… I now want at least six of these books. Help!!!!!
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I know, I know, Cath – it’s terrible! I keep finding more books I want to read. 🙂
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Tidelands sounds very interesting.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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I think so too 🙂
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Oh, so many interesting books here, Margaret! The Vargas, the MacLean, and the Parry all sound great. The rest sound very good, too. I’d be hard put to know where to start!
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Oh, I know what you mean – where to start is so difficult with so much choice!
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I’m also interested in several of these – the Jewell book, the Neill book, and certainly the one by Stephen King. Nice list, Margaret!
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Thanks, Kay!
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Wow, The Family Upstairs sounds interesting. I hope that baby will be okay!
My TTT.
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I think, maybe, I’ll start with The Family Upstairs – that poor baby!
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And yet again I say to myself, I will get round to reading Fred Vargas.
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Yet again, I say do get round to it. 🙂
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Ooh, I hadn’t spotted a new Robert Harris was on the way – thanks for the heads up!
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You’re welcome, FF.
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Tidelands sounds interesting.
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So many wonderful and intriguing titles coming out! Great picks. I’m especially excited for the latest offering of Philippa Gregory–I have my eARC of it and I’m excited to dive on in!
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Margaret, I really like the sound of Tidelands and The Institute. I hope you don’t have to wait too long to get your hands on some of these. 🙂
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