Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you’re adding to your shelves, be it buying or borrowing. From ‘real’ books you’ve purchased, a book you’ve borrowed, a book you’ve been given or an e-book they can all be shared!
From good old NetGalley I have Redemption Road by Lisa Ballantyne whose first novel The Guilty One was definitely a five star read for me.
Blurb
The crash is the unravelling of Margaret Holloway. Trapped inside a car about to explode, she is rescued by a scarred stranger who then disappears. Margaret remembers little, but she’s spent her life remembering little – her childhood is full of holes and forgotten memories. Now she has a burning desire to discover who she is and why her life has been shrouded in secrets. What really happened to her when she was a child? Could it have anything to do with the mysterious man who saved her life?
Flitting effortlessly between past and present, this is a suspenseful, gritty and emotionally charged journey of an estranged father and daughter, exploring the strength of family ties and our huge capacity for forgiveness. NetGalley
Redemption Road is due for publication on 1 July 2015
From Bookbridgr I have a copy of The Lost Art Of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice
Blurb
Set in the 1950s, in an England still recovering from the Second World War, this is the enchanting story of Penelope Wallace and her eccentric family at the start of the rock’n’roll era.
Penelope longs to be grown-up and to fall in love, but various rather inconvenient things keep getting in her way. Like her mother, a stunning but petulant beauty widowed at a tragically early age, her younger brother Inigo, currently incapable of concentrating on anything that isn’t Elvis Presley, a vast but crumbling ancestral home, a severe shortage of cash, and her best friend Charlotte’s sardonic cousin Harry… Bookbridgr
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets is also due for publication on 1 July 2015
From Amazon Vine I have a copy of What She Left by T.R. Richmond
Blurb
Who is Alice Salmon? Student. Journalist. Daughter. Lover of late nights, hater of deadlines.
That girl who drowned last year.
Gone doesn’t mean forgotten.
Everyone’s life leaves a trace behind.
But it’s never the whole story.
“I will stand up and ask myself who I am. I do that a lot. I’ll look in the mirror. Reassure myself, scare myself, like myself, hate myself. My name is Alice Salmon.”
When Alice Salmon died last year, the ripples from her tragic drowning could be felt in the news, on the internet, and in the hearts of those closest to her. However, the man who knows her best isn’t family or a friend. His name is Professor Jeremy Cooke, an academic fixated on piecing together Alice’s existence. Cooke knows that faithfully recreating Alice, through her diaries, text messages, and online presence, has become all-consuming. But he does not know how deep his search will take him into this shocking story of love, loss and obsession where everyone – including himself – has something to hide . . . Amazon
And finally I have courtesy of Daniel Pembrey whose book Harbour Master I recently reviewed has sent me a copy of The Candidate.
Blurb
WHEN HEADHUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTED: Nick Thorneycroft is a British headhunter working in Luxembourg. His company asks him to recruit a high-flying executive for the company’s Russian business. The best candidate turns out to be smart, beautiful… and mysterious. Soon the effects of Russia’s political upheaval, and the arrival of an ex-girlfriend who won’t leave him alone, make Nick’s Luxembourg life increasingly perilous; worlds collide in this gripping, atmospheric tale. Goodreads
Any of these take your fancy? What have you found to read this week? Please do share in the comments below
Out of all of your books What She Left immediately intrigues me. That synopsis sounds thrilling!
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Thanks for stopping by Chrissi 🙂
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I’ve also downloaded What She Left – I just love the thought of piecing together someone’s life and death from all the fragments we leave behind. But the others sound tempting too.
However, I’ve got more than enough on my plate of reading at the moment and have only borrowed 3 books from the library, all in French, so that should take me a few good weeks to read…
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It sounds like you will be busy with your library books. What She Left was just too intriguing to leave, I hope the premise is well-executed!
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I didn’t get on too well with What She Left but maybe you’ll have more luck with it!
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I’ll give it a go and let you know Lipsyy – thanks for stopping by to see what I added this week.
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These all sound appealing, Cleo! I’m another who’s drawn to What She Left; it does sound like a terrific premise for a story. I’ll be interested in what you thought of it.
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I am looking forward to this reconstruction of a life from what’s left behind – it is quite a chunky book so I’m hoping the execution lives up to the premise.
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Redemption Road sounds interesting hope you like it. forgetting big things is rough
my stacking the shelves
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I am drawn to books which feature memory loss like this, it is so integral to our lives. Thanks for stopping by and leaving your link 🙂
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Redemption Road looks good…and I’m also curious about The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets…it looks like a fun read. Thanks for sharing…and enjoy.
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Thank you for visiting – I chose The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets to lighten up my otherwise dark choices so I do hope it is as fun as it sounds. Thanks for visiting.
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Hmm…I’m not sure. Some of them look tempting, but I think I’ll wait to hear your verdict. Meantime back to the 140 that are currenlty waiting… 😉
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Only 140?? 😆
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Great haul. I’ve not heard of these but What She Left sounds interesting. ENjoy!
Krystianna @ Downright Dystopian
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Thank you 🙂
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The first book looks really good. I’ll have to go see if I can get it on NG. Thanks for the heads-up!
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I hope you managed to bag a copy 🙂
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Gosh, What She Left looks and sounds incredible.! I love thrillers although I do tend to read a ton of YA and like, um, hardly any Adult. hehe. I need to expand my horizons more!
My Stacking the Shelves!
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Thank you for visiting – If YA is your bag there is no ‘need’ to read anything else – well not until you run out of books 😉
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The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets sounds really fun, and it’s a different book than what you normally post on here. 🙂
-Lauren
http://www.shootingstarsmag.blogspot.com
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Haha, every now and again I choose something a little lighter and this looked like a nice summery read to match the better weather!
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On the crime front, I just finished the first of the Glasgow Trilogy by Malcolm Mackay: The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter. Loved it but will read something else before moving onto the second in the series
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I’ve not read any Malcolm Mackay so good to know you enjoyed it. I rarely read books back to back – even the Peter May Lewis Trilogy which I adored, and came to latish, I read a couple of other books before starting the next one.
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You always have the most interesting sounding thrillers. Happy reading!
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I’m reading Ruby by Cynthia Bond! What she left looks great! I should check it out.
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What She Left has received some mixed reviews but I’m eager to see what I think 🙂
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