Summer Reads

Once upon a time, most of Britain and Ireland was covered in woodland. Many of the trees have been cleared, but our connection with the wildwood remains. It is a place of danger, adventure and transformation, where anything could happen. Here is a...

I sing of arms and of the man After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote The Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas - Augustus' legendary ancestor. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, The Aeneid also provided Rome...

Medusa, Circe, Athena; legendary female figures from the annals of Greek myth have a surprising amount to teach us about life in the twenty-first century. In poetry, prose and picture, the multi-talented Nikita Gill takes us on a whirlwind tour of...

The most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source of Norse mythologyWritten in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the...

Set on an imaginary Caribbean island, this tantalising tale of disruption brought about by a beautiful stranger marries mythical elements with the piercing realism of everyday life. Overall Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2020 Longlisted for...

Combining the talents of half a dozen of YA’s biggest authors, Blackout tells a series of love stories between Black teens that occur when a power failure plunges New York into darkness. 'Blackout is our love letter to love, to New York City, and to...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman whose incredible journey still resonates today. Elizabeth Packard was an ordinary Victorian housewife and mother of six. That was, until...

THE MODERN CLASSIC: OVER 20 MILLION COPIES SOLD.A Sunday Times bestseller and a Richard & Judy book club pick.'The real deal: one gorgeous read' -- Stephen King'This book will change your life. An instant classic' --  Daily Telegraph'A book...

Named a most anticipated romance by Oprah Daily, Marie Claire, BuzzFeed, PopSugar, and more!The author of the “hilarious...joyful, elegant” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) To Have and to Hoax returns with an effervescent, charming, and swoon-worthy...

With shades of ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES and FIVE FEET APART, THE WORLD BETWEEN US is a powerful and thought-provoking story about falling in love with someone a whole world apart.Alice may be bed-bound, but every day Stream Cast brings the world to her...

(Available after 3-20 days)Anime coming July 2020! You can rent a girlfriend, but can you buy love? Reeling from a bad breakup, Kazuya rents the beautiful, polite Chizuru for a date. But rock bottom might be so much lower than he thought! Chizuru is much...

(Available after 3-20 days)Anime coming July 2020! You can rent a girlfriend, but can you buy love? Reeling from a bad breakup, Kazuya rents the beautiful, polite Chizuru for a date. But rock bottom might be so much lower than he thought! Chizuru is much...

The story of a family and a special dress, handed down from mother to daughter, during times of fortune, loss, tragedy and victory, by the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel.The Deveraux family were among the most important members of 1920s...

In Daddy's Girls, Danielle Steel's thought-provoking novel, three sisters discover the truth about their past and the importance of their unique bond.Many years have passed since ranch hand JT Tucker took his three small daughters to start a new life,...

After discovering that her husband is having an affair with a younger woman, Eileen sets out on a quest to transform her life in this spellbinding tale of love from the bestselling author. Relationships come together, fall apart and are reinvented...

What do we do when our children don't share our hopes for them? In Child's Play, the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel, explores how families can evolve and grow in unexpected ways.Kate Morgan is a senior partner at a prestigious New York law...

Moral Compass is a deeply meaningful and thought-provoking story from the worldwide bestselling author, Danielle Steel.Saint Ambrose Prep has been the school of choice for the sons of the great and the good for over a hundred years. Now, for the first...

In this spellbinding tale from Danielle Steel, a princess is sent away to safety during World War II, where she falls in love, and is lost forever.As the war rages on in the summer of 1943, causing massive destruction and widespread fear, the King and...

The Dark Side is a powerful and unsettling novel of motherhood, loss, and the innocence of childhood from the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel.Zoe Morgan was just ten years old when her life changed forever. Her sister, Rose, died of a rare...

From Sunday Times bestseller Nora Roberts - a tale of adventure, magic and finding your home'If you're after the perfect pick-me-up, take-me-away-from-the-world read, then she's your woman' -- The Guardian'Nora Roberts is, quite simply, a one-woman...