Summer Reads

"This brilliant portrayal of the lives of expats and their servants is also a suspenseful mystery with ever-darkening twists. For fans of A Little Life and The Goldfinch." --People, Book of the WeekWashington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive...

Scalpel-sharp and devastatingly witty, Anam’s story of world-beating apps and sexism in the workplace is a cautionary tale for our times.    Halfway through her PhD and already dreaming of running her own lab, computer scientist Asha has her future...

The New York Times bestselling coauthor ofGwendy's Button Box brings his signature 'thrilling, page-turning' (Michael Koryta, author of How It Happened) prose to this story of small-town evil that combines the storytelling of Stephen King with the...

**The New York Times Bestseller**'So damn good. A page-turner that makes you think and has a huge emotional impact' -- Jeff VanderMeerA wild and gripping novel about one woman's quest to reintroduce wolves to the Scottish Highlands at any costInti Flynn...

The author of Too Much and Never Enough delivers an unflinching reflection on the legacy of the Trump administration and the work that lies ahead to reverse its effects on the American psyche. The Reckoning examines America's national trauma, rooted...

One of the world’s most celebrated tennis icons and a tireless campaigner for gender equality, Billie Jean King shares the watershed moments from both her formidable sports career and her personal life in this touching and candid memoir. An inspiring...

Arguably the world’s leading expert in the understanding of trees, Simard distills the insights of a remarkable career in this accessible, riveting guide to all things arboreal. A dazzling scientific detective story from the ecologist who first...

'A delicious, diverse, genre-bending gothic, as smart as it is spooky' --  Chloe Benjamin During your three years at Catherine House you will have no contact with those in the outside world.Each of our students has been selected as someone who belongs...

An old adage says there are really only two stories: a man goes on a voyage, and a stranger arrives in town. This is the third: a woman breaks the rules . . .Set in a thinly disguised sixteenth-century England, Megan Campisi's The Sin Eater is a...

When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to replicate that moment. And when her longtime boyfriend announces he wants an open relationship...

The result of three decades of exhaustive research, Payne’s monumental biography of the seminal civil rights leader is packed with fresh insight gleaned from countless interviews and testimony with figures who knew Malcolm X intimately. Winner of the...

(Available after 3-20 days)Leila has made it most of the way through Armstead Academy without having a crush on anyone, which is something of a relief. As an Iranian American, she's different enough; if word got out that she liked girls, life would be...

In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette, but even in the dark, I could see her eyes - fierce emeralds. And not just beautiful, but hot too. BEFORE...

One of Betches' 7 Books by Black Authors You Need to Read This Summer One of Elite Daily's Books Featuring Interracial Relationships You Should Read In 2020One of Marie Claire's 2020 Books You Should Add to Your Reading List When a Nigerian woman falls...

(Available after 31 September 2021)'Thubron on top form. Richly detailed, immaculately written and full of insights and encounters that bring a complex corner of the world to life'  -- Michael PalinA dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest...

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller!From debut author Asha Lemmie, "a lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a family together."...

An attempt on an ageing billionaire's life unlocks a lifetime of dark secrets in the sixteenth electrifying case for Paris' maverick Inspector Gamache. On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather for a family dinner with Armand's godfather,...

With her uncanny ability to provoke a profound emotional reaction in her readers, Picoult delivers another slice of brilliantly affecting storytelling with this story of a plane crash survivor at a crossroads in their life. Jodi Picoult's stunning...

Illuminating and absorbing, Black Spartacus is a definitive new biography of Toussaint Louverture – a revolutionary slave hero, military mastermind and the first leader of the independent Black state of Haiti. Winner of the Wolfson History...

This stunningly illustrated and deeply researched volume unravels the multi-layered story of Ravenna – once the capital of the Western Roman Empire and the cultural and political hub of early medieval Europe. Shortlisted for the Wolfson History...