There are one or two heavy hitters this week but I think we are waiting for the biggies to come out next month.
What am I reading right now? I found this writer on twitter and his book sounded fascinating to me. I am really getting into it and it lives up to what I thought, The Wewelsburg Covenant by John Braun. It just became available for download on Kindle and you will want to download it now! There are no reviews to post yet, hopefully mine will be the first. But, come on Kindle lovers, get this one and give this guy some welcome reviews.
I just downloaded the Tides of War by Stella Tillyard. I have read excellent reviews of this book and cannot wait to read it. Just look at some of the rave reviews:
"In short, war is as transformative for those who remain at home as for those
who fight it, and historian Tillyard, making her fiction debut, does a superb
job of portraying those transformations with deft, economical prose and
metaphors that are as instructive as they are descriptive. This sophisticated,
unusual portrait of Regency society will appeal to all readers of historical
fiction, especially admirers of Bernard Cornwell."—Library Journal,
Starred Review
"Tillyard is at her best with historical figures and when depicting the era;
readers share Harriet's discovery of the waltz, Jane Austen, and ice cream, and
witness cutting-edge battlefield surgeries under real-life Surgeon Gen. James
McGrigor."—Publishers Weekly
"Dazzling—I love this book. It's beautifully written, the characters are
deeply involving and the historical settings so right—in short, Tides of
War is a triumph."—Simon Schama
"Stella Tillyard is famous for the bravura of her writing, so it should come
as no surprise that her fifth book is not a biography but a historical novel…
The result suggests that history's loss will be fiction's gain; Tides of
War is one of the most assured literary debuts in years… Stella Tillyard has
written a modern novel that is the perfect answer to anyone who believes that
the past is out of date."—Amanda Foreman, Financial Times
"A remarkably instructive novel. Tillyard embellishes a plot too intricate
for summary with a plethora of detail. Readers…will find much to fascinate
them... Tillyard is a fluent and attractive chronicler of historical detail and
some of her imaginative liberties are ingenious… An entertaining fictional
debut."—The Telegraph (UK)
"Hugely enjoyable… In its intelligent, classy, entertaining way, the book is
reminiscent of that other fine novelist of the Napoleonic wars, Patrick
O'Brian."—Angus Clarke, The Times (UK)
"Love, betrayal, war and peace charge this powerful debut."—Fanny Blake,
Woman and Home (UK)
Sounds really good. I'll let you know...
Here are a few samples of this week's new releases in fiction:
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
A Christmas Homecoming by Anne Perry
The Christmas Note by Donna Vanliere
Christmas in Sugarcreek by Shelley Shepard Gray
A Crimson Warning by Tasha Alexander
The Litigators by John Grisham
The Nine Lives of Christmas by Sheila Roberts
Ranchero by Rick Gavin
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston
Tides of War by Stella Tillyard
