Summer Reads

'Smart, sophisticated and suspenseful.' --  HARLAN COBEN 'Sleek, cunning and breakneck.' --  MEGAN ABBOTT 'Thriller writing at its absolute best.' --  JEFFREY DEAVER 'Top-tier.' -- New York Times From the top ten bestselling author of The Expats: Kate...

THE TWENTIETH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIESThe one with the mysterious reverend . . . At a local wedding, Mma Ramotswe reunites with a friend whose daughter has inexplicably turned away from her. Elsewhere, several ladies in...

Beautifully written, thought-provoking, intense and cleverly wrought, this is the most extraordinary first novel from a mesmerising new talent.One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the north-eastern edge of Russia, two sisters are abducted. In the...

The unparalleled master of the historical epic returns with a sweeping evocation of China from the Opium Wars of nineteenth century to the global powerhouse of the present day.   The internationally bestselling author portrays the great clash of East...

HELLO!'s 'Pick of the Week' A whirlwind mystery and unravelling love story set in a little bookshop in the heart of Paris.   Some stories are still waiting to be found. In a city of millions, it's easy to lose someone... Twelve weeks before Leah Eady...

Lyrical and enlightening, Lopez's seminal work on the sublime beauty and extreme danger of the Arctic conjures a landscape like no other in incisive, revelatory prose. A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week The author of Horizon's classic work explores the...

A bold recasting of Pride and Prejudice in Pakistani dress, Unmarriageable works because its lightness of touch and deft characterisation remain true to the spirit of the original. A delicious satire on arranged marriage and a window into a vibrant,...

As sweet as a macaron from Laduree, with writing as crisp as a freshly baked baguette, this romantic novel set in Paris about an American ballerina and a charming French boy is parfait for fans of American Royals and Netflix's To All the Boys I've Loved...

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in...

'I just love the world of Patrick Rothfuss' -- Lin-Manuel Miranda'He's bloody good, this Rothfuss guy' -- George R R MartinSequel to the extraordinary THE NAME OF THE WIND, THE WISE MAN'S FEAR is the second instalment of this superb fantasy trilogy from...

THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES - Now a major TV series. For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to the majesty of Scotland's mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to...

THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES, NOW A HIT TV SHOWJamie Fraser is lying on the battlefield of Culloden, where he rises wounded, to face execution or imprisonment. Either prospect pales beside the pain of loss - his wife is gone...

THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLINGOUTLANDER SERIES - NEW A MAJOR TV SERIESHow far will a woman travel to find a father, a lover a destiny? Across seas, across time - across the grave itself. It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. Claire...

THE FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIESNow a major TV series1771: the Colony of North Carolina stands in an uneasy balance, with the rich, colonial aristocracy on one side and the struggling pioneers of the backcountry on the other.Between...

THE SIXTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. The long fuse of rebellion has already been lit.It's 1772, the Royal Colony of North Carolina, and the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and preserve the colony for King and...

THE TRIUMPHANT SEVENTH NOVEL IN THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES.The year is 1777. The place, North Carolina. And as the American rebellion grows in intensity, Highlander Jamie Fraser and his wife Claire need to decide which side their...

The latest epic volume in the multimillion-copy bestselling Outlander series.It is June 1778, and the world seems to be turning upside-down. The British Army is withdrawing from Philadelphia, with George Washington in pursuit, and for the first time, it...

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches. Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the stunning first volume of the No.1 internationally bestselling All Souls trilogy, soon to be a major...

The bewitching sequel to the bestselling A Discovery of Witches blends romance and fantasy into an irresistible literary brew as Diana and Matthew seek sanctuary in Elizabethan London. Fall deeper under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the...

A new piece in the puzzle of Harkness’s enveloping All Souls world, Time’s Convertreturns to the de Clermont family and Marcus Whitmore’s past to question what it really takes to become a vampire. From the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author...