Good morning everyone today on Two For Tuesday I thought I’d share two recommendations that were given to me by customers at the bookshop.
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
I’ve always had a bit of a fascination with books that are set in space so when a customer ordered in the book for themselves I was immediately intrigued. It’s not somewhere I’m ever going to myself but I’m excited to experience it alongside the characters.
Book Synopsis:
Life on our planet as you’ve never seen it before: in this spellbinding and uplifting novel six astronauts rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?
Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents, and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.
Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction.
The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part – or protective – of it.
House Of Dudley by Joanne Paul
One of my favourite periods of history is the Tudor period and I’m always interested in learning more about it. A customer mentioned that this had been recommended on radio 4 when ordering it for themselves. I had a quick look at it when it came on and it sounded fascinating so I knew I’d have to get myself a copy.
Book Synopsis:
Was the House of Dudley out to steal the throne?
This was the question on the mind of Elizabeth I’s courtiers when a forbidden book accused generations of the Dudley family of poisonings, plottings, murders, treason, incitement and other ‘evil stratagems.’
For decades, the Dudleys had been close to the throne, rising from nobodies to the land’s highest offices.
Under Henrys VII and VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and, finally, Elizabeth, they risked execution and imprisonment as they audaciously stole, murdered and swindled in the name of the monarch.
But were they loyally protecting the crown, or did they secretly covet it for themselves?
What was the last book you bought from a recommendation?
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