You Won't Be Able to Put These Books Down : Our Top Holiday Reads
Our top summer holiday book picks are the ultimate companions for a day spent lounging on the beach or by the pool.
These books are sure to keep you entertained and captivated all summer long, pick up your new favourite, just make sure to not let the holiday pass you by!
Our Wives Under The Sea - Julia Armfield
Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home.
A haunting and moving debut novel about love, loss and grief - about what life there is the deep ocean and what happens when we go looking for it.
It's a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep, deep sea.
The Favour - Nora Murphy
Leah Dawson and McKenna Hawkins had a lot in common, but they had never met.
They don't - ever - find themselves in the same train carriage or meet accidentally at the gym or in the coffee shop.
But they do cross paths. And they see something each recognizes in the other. That they are living in hell.
Neither narrator is unreliable. They always tell us the truth. And their truth hurts. A lot. Because these two attractive, intelligent professional women are living in a hell of their husband's making.
And there is no way to get out of hell. Is there?
The Favour is a dark domestic-suspense debut from Nora Murphy - for those who enjoyed Harriet Tyce's Blood Orange , Louise Candlish and B. A. Paris's Behind Closed Doors.
The Maid - Nita Prose
Molly the maid is all alone in the world. A nobody. She's used to being invisible in her job at the Regency Grand Hotel, plumping pillows and wiping away the grime, dust and secrets of the guests passing through. She's just a maid - why should anyone take notice?
But Molly is thrown into the spotlight when she discovers an infamous guest, Mr Black, very dead in his bed and as Molly becomes embroiled in the hunt for the truth, following the clues whispering in the hallways of the Regency Grand, she discovers a power she never knew was there. She's just a maid - but what can she see that others overlook?
The Maid is a story about how the truth isn't always black and white - it's found in the dirtier, grey areas in between . . .
1989 - Val McDermid
There's nothing like a killer story . . .
1989. The world is changing, and Allie Burns is still on the front line, covering the stories that count.
Although Allie is no longer an investigative journalist, her instincts are sharper than ever. When she discovers a lead about the exploitation of society's most vulnerable, Allie is determined to give a voice to those who have been silenced.
As Allie edges closer to exposing the truth, she travels behind the Iron Curtain, to East Berlin on the brink of revolution. The dark heart of the story is more shocking than she ever imagined. And to tell it, Allie must risk her freedom and her life . . .
The latest Allie Burns thriller, set a decade after the bestselling first novel in the ground-breaking, iconic new series.
Honor - Thrity Umrigar
In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heart-breaking challenges of love across a cultural divide.
Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. As she follows the case of Meena - a Hindu woman attacked by members of her own village and her own family for marrying a Muslim man - Smita comes face to face with a society where tradition carries more weight than one's own heart, and a story that threatens to unearth the painful secrets of Smita's own past.
A tender and evocative novel about love, hope, familial devotion, betrayal, and sacrifice.
The House With The Golden Door - Elodie Harper
Amara has escaped her life as a slave in Pompeii's most notorious brothel.
She now has a house, fine clothes, servants - but all of these are gifts from her patron, hers for as long as she keeps her place in his affections.
At night she dreams of the wolf den, and the women she left behind. By day, she is pursued by her former slave master. To be truly free, she will need to be as ruthless as he is.
Amara knows she can draw strength from Venus, the goddess of love. Yet falling in love herself may prove to be her downfall.
The House with the Golden Door is the stunning second novel in Elodie Harper's celebrated Wolf Den Trilogy, which reimagines the lives of women who have long been overlooked.