BookTrail Travels with Books in August
There are some treats in store this August – new books from top writers and some destinations fit for a summer break ( or a visit to the Festival of Books in Edinburgh!)
Some dark deeds in Edinburgh, a village hit by a meteorite in Finland and a journey into the Spanish past…Ready for BookTrail Travels with Books in August ?
DESTINATION EDINBURGH – The Darker Arts – by Oscar de Muriel
Aaah. Always a guaranteed fascinating visit to Edinburgh and this one is no different. There’s talks of seances, ghostly goings on and of course all kinds of dark arts. Detective ‘Nine Nails’ McGray is a great character – there’s a LOT to love about entering into dark and damp Edinburgh when the sunshine is all around in real life. Then if you head up to the Edinburgh book festival then you can see the darkest places in the city which appear in the book!
DESTINATION SPAIN – Her Last Promise by Kathryn Hughes
Tara Richards was just a girl when she lost her mother. Years later she receives a letter from a London solicitor and a key to a safe deposit box. In the box lies an object that will change everything Tara thought she knew and lead her on a journey to deepest Spain in search of the answers that have haunted her for forty years. This is a sunny read yet with shadows of the past and it’s one emotional journey.
DESTINATION SIBERIA – LITTLE SIBERIA by Antti Tuomainen
This is the quirkiest and funniest novel I’ve read in a while. Set in deepest darkest Finland, a man is racing along the remote snowy roads of a cery remote town, when there is a flash in the sky and something crashes into the car. That something turns about to be a highly valuable meteorite. Does he survive and what happens when people find out about the value of the meteorite? Will they try to exploit it and what will happen to the small community to have such a drastic change of fortune?
DESTINATION SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS – The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
Wanted – a live-in nanny to live with a picture-perfect family in a stunning home in the Scottish Highlands. On offer: a staggeringly generous salary. When Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House however… Years later, in London, a child is dead and a nanny is in prison… What on earth happened?
DESTINATION ENGLAND – Tidelands by Philippa Gregory
England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . .
Alinor ‘s husband has been lost at sea. She has two children to raise on her own in a hovel by the sea. What makes her stand out however is the fact that she is a midwife and has knowledge of herbs and anatomy. If it’s dangerous to be a woman, it’s even more dangerous to be a woman who is different…
And that’s just the start! August is hot in the bookworld, whatever it is in the real one.
