Books for the TBR Pile... 'Can't Get To Sleep, Again...' Edition

It looks like once again, I've got myself in a state about work this week and I'm still in that moment, even though work is most definitely not going to be a thing until Monday morning... For what it's worth, the Graeme of several years ago is looking on and thinking 'what the hell have I become...?' Hopefully better at keeping a job 'past Graeme'... ;o) Sleep will happen at some point, just not right now so in the meantime, why don't we take a look at the books that have followed me home this week...

Not too many books this time round, mostly because payday is still a way off but also because I really want to make a dent in what's in the flat first. Seriously, have you seen the state of the place? Actually, it would be really weird if you had but you know what I mean. It would be good to finish more books than I'm buying ;o) There have been a few books turn up though. I'm lucky enough to get the occasional review copy so there's some of that, this week, and there's also a couple of books that I did buy. Check 'em out...


Guy Gavriel Kay's 'A Brightness Long Ago' was actually the first book I reviewed Here and I enjoyed it so much that I was really excited when those kind folk at Hodder sent me a copy of 'All the Seas of the World'. Now I just need to find the time to read it but read it I most definitely will. Have some blurb,

On a dark night along a lonely stretch of coast, a small ship, the Silver Wake, sends two people ashore to a stony strand. Their purpose is assassination. They have been hired to do this by two of the most dangerous men alive. The consequences will affect so many lives both great and small, and possibly alter the balance of power in the world.

One of those arriving on that night strand is a woman abducted by corsairs from her home as a child, escaping that fate, that destiny, years after, now trying to chart her own course - and bent upon revenge. Another figure, on the boat, bringing it to meet the secretive landing party at the city where they are going, is a merchant who still remembers being exiled as a child with his family from their home, for their faith...

Yep, definitely getting read ;o)

The other title is also very intriguing, an ARC of 'The Dark Between The Trees' (by Fiona Barnett) that was sent to me by the equally kind folk at Rebellion. Have some blurb for that as well,

1643: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern England. Their only hope for survival is to flee into the nearby Moresby Wood... unwise though that may seem. For Moresby Wood is known to be an unnatural place, the realm of witchcraft and shadows, where the devil is said to go walking by moonlight...
Seventeen men enter the wood. Only two are ever seen again, and the stories they tell of what happened make no sense. Stories of shifting landscapes, of trees that appear and disappear at will... and of something else. Something dark. Something hungry.
Today, five women are headed into Moresby Wood to discover, once and for all, what happened to that unfortunate group of soldiers. Led by Dr Alice Christopher, an historian who has devoted her entire academic career to uncovering the secrets of Moresby Wood. Armed with metal detectors, GPS units, mobile phones and the most recent map of the area (which is nearly 50 years old), Dr Christopher's group enters the wood ready for anything.
Or so they think.

'The Dark Between The Trees' isn't published until October so you might have to wait until closer the time before you see a review. You will see one though ;o)


And here are the books that I bought :o) No surprises with 'Alligators', I'm getting good at picking off Guy N. Smith titles on eBay ;o) I've got quite the little 'Guy N. Smith TBR Pile' at the moment so don't be too surprised if you see a review for 'Alligators' sooner rather than later.
And I've had a little hankering for some 'Arabian Nights' style Sword & Sorcery so when I saw a copy of 'The Desert of Souls', I didn't hang around picking it up ;o)  I've read 'The Desert of Souls' before so I know I'll enjoy it, and look at that glorious cover! I really don't know when you'll see a post about this book but... you will ;o)

And that's that for new book arrivals today. I'm going to see if I can get some sleep...


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