Summer Reads

The hilarious romantic comedy from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Sophie KinsellaIf you suddenly had a friend that only you could see or hear, what would you do?You could worry that your stressful life has tipped you over the edge and you have lost the...

For once in Becky Bloomwood's life, things are going smoothly. She's got the dream job as a personal shopper (spending other people's money - and getting paid for it). She's got a fabulous Manhattan apartment with her boyfriend Luke. They've even opened...

Becky's life is blooming! She's working at London's newest fashion store The Look, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret wish is a Shoe Room)... and she's pregnant! She couldn't be more overjoyed - especially since discovering that shopping cures...

Meaningful and moving - the classic million-copy bestselling love story from Cecelia Ahern. Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other's sentences. No one...

'Laugh-out-loud funny, intensely suspenseful, page-turning fun' -- Allison Brennan on A Bad Day for SunshineRunning a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time Sheriff - and even...

'The most uplifting book of the year' -- INDEPENDENT'This is something special: moving, joyful and life-affirming' -- GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Book of the MonthAn extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories. Their last one begins here.Life is short. No-one...

A sharp and hilariously relatable novel about the business of weddings, the toll they can take, and the lengths one exasperated bridesmaid will go to for the love of friends.Lily Weiss is her mother's worst nightmare: thirty-two and single--the horror!...

An unnerving exposé of the dark fraternities of extreme misogyny, Men Who Hate Women is a timely volume from the author of Everyday Sexism and Girl Up. The extremism nobody talks about. And how it affects us all Imagine a world in which a vast...

(Available after 3-20 days)Lady Tremaine, widowed and raising two headstrong girls alone, finds herself falling for a dashing knight from a far-off land who is looking for a stepmother for his own young daughter. But stepmothers in the Many Kingdoms...

'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' -- Simon Sebag Montefiore'Simply dynamite' --  Bernard CornwellFrom Andrew Roberts, author of the bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking with...

A magnificently researched New York Times bestseller revisionist history of Genghis Khan and his legacy, arguing that rather than a brutal barbarian, Khan was one of the most progressive leaders in world history who joined East and West and brought about...

A dramatic portrait of one of America's most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant, by Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow, author of the book on which the astonishing musical Hamilton is based. As late as April 1861, when the American Civil...

Set in Victorian London, Rees' engrossing story of family flight and shocking secrets binds a twelve-year-old Ottilie and local girl Mabs together in a web of intrigue and lies.   Every house has its secrets... For twelve-year-old Ottilie Finch,...

The second captivating instalment of the Burning Chambers series finds Minou and her family facing ever greater peril as sixteenth-century France is plunged once more into religious strife and regal intrigue. Following on from the Sunday Times number...

Two female backpackers are brought face to face with a serial killer in this taut, white-knuckle ride of a YA horror novel from the author of There’s Someone Inside Your House.   If you go down to the woods today . . . Two girls go backpacking in the...

A story of love, destiny and feuding families with extraordinary powers, descended from the heroes of ancient Greece, Dreamless is the second book in the heartstopping Starcrossed series by Josephine Angelini. Tasked with descending to the underworld and...

Goddess is the final book in Josephine Angelini's heart-stopping trilogy inspired by Greek mythology, Starcrossed.She must rise, or they will fall . . .Helen's powers are increasing and so is the distance between her and her mortal friends. To make...

A breathtaking novel about finding yourself and finding a friend by the award-winning author of Beautiful Broken Things.Sometimes you have to leave your life behind to find your place in the world.After five years at secondary school spent without any...

The show must go on.It's back to show business as usual at Duke's Academy of Performing Arts. Things are finally working out for Nettie, with her voice restored, her gorgeous boyfriend, Fletch, by her side and the lead role in the college musical.That...

'This book is exquisite' - Holly Bourne, bestselling author of Am I Normal Yet?Fierce Fragile Hearts is the stunning companion novel to Sara Barnard's YA bestseller Beautiful Broken Things, which was selected for the inaugural Zoella Book Club. It is...