Summer Reads

Populated by the much-loved characters from the Netflix hit series, Sex Education: A Road Tripsees Maeve’s brother get in trouble once again, which sets her and her trusted friends on a rescue mission that turns out to be more thrilling and...

In this compelling story of teenage rivalry and friendship, award-winning author Keith Gray captures the subtle agonies and reality of life growing up in a small town. Sully is the best climber in the village. He can scale the Twisted Sister's tangled...

20 years ago, Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses, a story that charted the deeply forbidden romance between Sephy (a Cross) and Callum (a Nought) was published. Theirs was a love affair that has had repercussions for their families for generations...

The sequel to the terrifying literary phenomenon Bird Box finds Malorie preparing to journey across the wilderness with her now-teenage children to find the only other two people she cares about. Gripping, sinister and unbearably tense, Malorie is a...

I've always loved when the light finds the broken spots in the world and makes them beautiful . . . Cash's life in his small Tennessee town is hard. He lost his mom to an opioid addiction and his grandfather's illness is getting worse. His smart but...

Radha was on the verge of winning the world's biggest kathak dancing competition when a family betrayal shattered her dreams, and her confidence. Now, she's made a deal with her mum: study dance for a year at the Princeton Academy of Arts and Sciences...

From widely acclaimed comedian and author, Shappi Khorsandi, comes a modern fable about the rise and fall of a beautiful, but vulnerable, young woman in a world obsessed with money, status and looks. Emma and her mother are down on their luck. They're...

No matter how you try to hide it, the truth will always come out . . .After a plane crash sees a group of seven teens washed up on a desert island, their first thought is survival. But a terrible secret from a party the night before has followed them...

Talented, hard-working Eliza is running for editor-in-chief role at the school newspaper but loses to highly popular, inexperienced Len in this irresistible and shrewd enemies-to-lovers story, peppered with powerful messages about racism, sexism and...

A tender and compassionate story of friendship, family and finding love when you feel your luck has run out, Lippincott’s YA novel features a beautifully observed central relationship.   From the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Five Feet...

Return to the magical world of The Rosewood Chronicles in the fourth instalment of this gorgeous series for fans of The Princess Diaries and Harry Potter.'You don't have to push me away. We can survive with each other and apart. I know that now . . . but...

A grieving teen's past comes back to haunt him in this chilling installment in R.L. Stine's bestselling Fear Street series-now with a fresh new look!Brady Karlin is getting on with his life. The memory of his girlfriend-killed in a gruesome sledding...

A runaway can't outrun her troubles in this spine-tingling installment in R.L. Stine's bestselling Fear Street series-now with a fresh new look!Shadyside. It sounded like such a nice town, the perfect place for a runaway like Felicia. Nobody here would...

Suffused with the laid-back country charm of Nashville, Maskame's delightful romance centres on the frustrations of a girl with a movie star dad and the obnoxious mayor's son who seems able to get under her skin.   Meet Mila. Sixteen years old, an...

In the political turbulence of Edwardian Britain, three young women from very different walks of life hear the call for equality and justice in Nicholls' stunning novel about the suffragette movement, permeated with personal as well as social drama...

Weaving a rich gothic atmosphere, the author of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell mines a darkly fantastical vision with a tale of a very singular house and its mysterious inhabitants. Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 Shortlisted for...

Peeling back the layers of idealism and hubris of the Swinging Sixties, Boyd’s humane, tender-hearted novel charts the emotional entanglements of the titular threesome, during the shooting of a Brighton-set movie.   A producer. A novelist. An actress...

Trevor returns to North Carolina to confront his feelings about his grandfather's death - but buried secrets and unexpected romance force him to rethink his priorities in this winning and emotional novel from the author of The Notebook.   A house...

Women Don’t Owe You Pretty is an accessible entry point into progressive feminist discussion, covering topics such as body image, toxic beauty standards, and identity-building in a world still plagued by misogyny and sexism. Longlisted for the Polari...

Inspired by her acclaimed Edinburgh Festival lecture, Michaela Coel’s passionately argued and devastatingly articulate manifesto for greater transparency and honesty is a clarion call for speaking truth to power.     'Razor-sharp and as funny as I...