Summer Reads

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEREvery town has its ugly little secrets...From the outside, the house in Lakeview Terrace looks perfect and the Bigelows seem like the perfect family: the respected surgeon father, the glamorous, devoted mother and two beautiful...

Sunday Times bestsellerSelected as one of The Times' Best Books about The TudorsA Telegraph Book of the YearA History Today Book of the YearA BBC History Magazine Book of the YearThe Tudors are a national obsession; they are our most notorious family in...

Mary Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads delivers her next page-turner for the summer with The Newcomer. In trouble and on the run... After she discovers her sister Tanya dead on the floor of her fashionable...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018 Who is Vernon Subutex? An urban legend. A fall from grace. The mirror who reflects us all. Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread...

Rock star Alexandre Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret. It's a secret that concerns several people, but the only person who can unlock it is Vernon Subutex, former record shop proprietor turned homeless messiah and guru, last seen hallucinating...

Although it means leaving behind the community of disciples who have followed him on his travels and assembled at his raves and gatherings, Vernon Subutex is compelled to return to Paris to visit the dentist.Once back in the city, he learns that Charles,...

Briseis’s control over flowers and plants wreaks dangerous consequences as she discovers long buried secrets in the garden of her rambling inherited home in this gripping, empowering fantasy from the author of Cinderella is Dead. Ever since she can...

From a stunning new voice in fantasy comes the fierce, romantic story about a world on the brink of destruction, the one witch who holds the power to save it, and the choice that could cost her everything she loves.*Featuring an exclusive, flower-stamped...

'I just LOVE [Elin Hilderbrand's] books, they are such compulsive reads' - Marian KeyesWhen Vivian Howe, author of thirteen novels and mother of three grown-up children, is killed in a hit-and-run incident while jogging near her home, she ascends to the...

(Available after 3-20 days)MacKenzie Decker was a question Avery never got to ask, much less answer.They met when she was a young reporter fueled by ambition, and the ink on Deck's first NBA contract was barely dry. Years later, they've climbed so high...

(Available after 3-20 days) The KingmakerAmbition. Passion. Betrayal.Rita Award-winning author Kennedy Ryan delivers the epic first installment of the All the King's Men Duet.Raised to rule, bred to lead and weaned on a diet of ruthless ambition.In a...

(Available after 3-20 days)Ambition. Revenge. Love.Rita Award-winning author Kennedy Ryan delivers the gripping conclusion to the All the King's Men Duet.Raised to resist. Bred to fight. Survival is in my blood and surrender is never an option.Though...

(Available after 29 June 2021)Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction - at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal - is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award-winning film.RICK DALTON - Once he had his...

A mother of small children trusts her 'gut feelings' and it saves her life.A young dad is able to grieve for his lost baby - using a song.What if there were parts of our minds which we never use, but if awakened, could make us so much happier, connected...

Leading the year’s most eagerly anticipated releases, J.K. Rowling’s original screenplay sees Newt Scamander forced to choose sides as Dumbledore's forces oppose dark wizard Grindelwald. Unmissable. J.K. Rowling invites you to explore a new era of...

Perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Choice and The Librarian of Auschwitz - this is the international bestselling and life-affirming true story of female bravery and surviving the horrors of Auschwitz. WINNER of the Opzij Literature...

Wild, beautiful and spellbinding, this is the compelling wartime story of freedom and love on the windswept islands of Orkney'Powerful . . . Lea writes beautifully of island life and love, and the sacrifices that both demand'  -- THE TIMESThe sky is...

(Available after 3-20 days)"Enticing . . . hard to put down."--Associated Press "A fascinating romp through the feminine side of the infamous Khan clan."--Booklist The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever...

The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another.The reader is...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathryn Purdie comes a high-stakes fantasy duology flush with doomed romance and macabre magic, perfect for fans of Stephanie Garber and Roshani Chokshi.   Bone Criers are the last descendants of an ancient...