Welcome to Litsy!

The setting for this novel is London during the Cold War. The story revolves around two men who work at the Admiralty and a file that goes missing. No doubt the author was inspired by the true saga of Kim Philby and others in British intelligence who were moles for the USSR. Even though the story is fictional, it moves right along and becomes a page turner. Very satisfying ending. 5 out of 5 stars.

Day 6: today I have not stopped I am currently on the 2 hour drive back from Edinburgh where I have been doing sound engineering for a band. So I found a audiobook on my library‘s online selection #currentlyreading #library #audiobook

Should I have bought them?

1960s London. Height of the Cold War. In a garden in Muswell Hill a wife & mother buries a suitcase her husband was asked to rescue from a friend/colleague's house.

I really liked this novel; good story line moving fast, characters I could be sympathetic to, and the ending rounded things off suitably and wasn't too far fetched. Well worth a read 🖒

I raced through this cold war thriller, but i can't say it changed my life. An easy, slightly unsatisfactory read, more character development needed!

(with early daffs and our new bright therapy lamp which i hope is going to change my partner's life...)

Cold war thriller...one of my favourite eras of recent history 🖒 well written so far.

I've never done reading challenges until this month, the thing I'm most getting used to is having several books on the go at once. You're all pros! Starting this one on the tube this morning... #chutesandladders

Who needs football when you can have engrossing books?

This book felt so British--very restrained. Not so much a spy story as a story about the consequences of one act and its effect on the people involved.

Here are some of the books my husband gave me for Christmas. (I need to get the hang of these collages.)

Next up--a gift from a friend.

The photo has nothing to do with this blurb. I wanted to take a photo of something else but had cat paralysis because she was sitting on me! I chose Exposure for the title because it stayed with me this month.
#catsoflitsy

This month's reading totals are 11 books:
4 by women and 7 by men
UK - 4 authors
Canada - 1 author
US - 4 authors
France - 1 author
Zimbabwe - 1 author

Must do better with diversity next month!
#booktober
#monthlystats

Another my mum has given me...

Subtle, complicated, beautiful.

Last minute brush up for today's lit festival event with Helen Dunmore. A wonderful book about secrets and lies and the ghosts of war in the Cold War.
"They were so certain then. Nothing had touched them. What they believed was as fresh as a sheet of paper with nothing written on it."

After doing a favor for an old colleague, a British secret agent gets caught in the crosshairs of a conspiracy and his family suffers the consequences .

It's a spy story with very little cloak and dagger, but its domestic focus is cleverly written and riveting throughout.

Interviewing Helen Dunmore for WhitLit Festival next week - very much looking forward to reading her newest.