Books for Summer
A wonderful selection of new books to staycation with and escape into!
Fiction – Crime and Thrillers – People – Places – Outdoors – Food – Sport – History and Politics
Fiction
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A Theatre for Dreamers by Polly Samson£14.99 -
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes£8.99 -
All Adults Here by Emma Straub£14.99 -
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid£8.99 -
Expectation by Anna Hope£8.99 -
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha£12.99 -
Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud£14.99 -
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce£16.99 -
Orlando King by Isabel Colegate£9.99 -
Pilgrims by Matthew Kneale£16.99 -
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez£14.99 -
Rodham: What if Hillary hadn’t married Bill? by Curtis Sittenfeld£16.99 -
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers£14.99 -
That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu£12.99 -
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin£16.99 -
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes£8.99 -
The Island by Ana Maria Matute£9.99 -
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See£8.99 -
The Nickel Boys: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2020 by Colson Whitehead£8.99 -
The Sound of the Hours by Karen Campbell£9.99 -
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett£14.99 -
The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan£8.99 -
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams£8.99 -
To Calais, In Ordinary Time by James Meek£9.99
Crime and Thrillers
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A Quiet Death in Italy by Tom Benjamin£8.99 -
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson£8.99 -
Black Sun by Owen Matthews£8.99 -
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips£8.99 -
Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke£8.99 -
Sorry for the Dead by Nicola Upson£8.99 -
The Body Lies by Jo Baker£8.99 -
The Man That Got Away: A Constable Twitten Mystery by Lynne Truss£8.99 -
The Mimosa Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu£8.99 -
The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish£14.99 -
The Truants by Kate Weinberg£8.99 -
Under Occupation by Alan Furst£8.99
People
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Adventures Of Maud West Lady Detective by Susannah Stapleton£9.99 -
Chanel’s Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d’Azur by Anne de Courcy£10.99 -
Circles and Squares: The Lives and Art of the Hampstead Modernists by Caroline Maclean£30.00 -
Mutual Admiration Society by Mo Moulton£9.99 -
My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay£9.99 -
Noble Savages by Sarah Watling£9.99 -
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown£20.00 -
The See-Through House: My Father in Full Colour by Shelley Klein£16.99 -
The Weil Conjectures: On Maths and the Pursuit of the Unknown by Karen Olsson£9.99 -
Vincent’s Books: Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him by Mariella Guzzoni£19.95 -
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, by Saidiya Hartman£17.99 -
Wham! George & Me: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Andrew Ridgeley£8.99
Places
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A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid£9.99 -
Around the World in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh£9.99 -
Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town by Lamorna Ash£16.99 -
I Am An Island by Tamsin Calidas£16.99 -
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks£16.99 -
Lotharingia: A Personal History of France, Germany and the Countries In-Between by Simon Winder£12.99 -
Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth by Dan Richards£9.99 -
Syria’s Secret Library: The true story of how a besieged Syrian town found hope by Mike Thomson£8.99 -
The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time by Anna Sherman£9.99 -
The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Water by Charlie Connelly£16.99 -
The Lost Pianos of Siberia: In search of Russia’s remarkable survivors by Sophy Roberts£18.99 -
The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination by Philip Marsden£9.99 -
Walking the Great North Line by Robert Twigger£20.00
Outdoors
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Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty£16.00 -
Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible by Simon Barnes£8.99 -
The Forager’s Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests by John Wright£10.99 -
The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet by Dave Goulson£9.99 -
The Grassling by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett£9.99 -
The Way Home by Mark Boyle£9.99 -
Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature by Patrick Barkham£16.99 -
Wild Your Garden: Turn your outdoor space into a sanctuary for nature by Jim and Joel Ashton£14.99
Food
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A Half Baked Idea by Olivia Potts£8.99 -
A Table for Friends: The Art of Cooking for Two or Twenty by Skye McAlpine£26.00 -
Falastin: A Cookbook by Sami Tamimi£28.00 -
How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher£9.99 -
Summer Kitchens: The perfect summer cookbook by Olia Hercules£26.00 -
Table Manners: The Cookbook by Jessie Ware£22.00 -
The Botanical Kitchen: Cooking with fruits, flowers, leaves and seeds by Elly McCausland£26.00 -
The Roasting Tin Around the World: Global One Dish Dinners by Rukmini Iyer£16.99 -
Wilderness Chef: The Ultimate Guide to Cooking Outdoors by Ray Mears£20.00
Sport
History and Politics
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A Short History of London by Simon Jenkins£9.99 -
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts£10.99 -
Chastise: The Dambusters by Max Hastings£9.99 -
Lancaster: The Forging of a Very British Legend by John Nichol£20.00 -
Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 by John Gooch£30.00 -
Palace of Palms: Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew by Kate Teltscher£25.00 -
Partition Voices: Untold British Stories by Kavita Puri£9.99 -
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy by Thomas Penn£12.99 -
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond£10.99
For recommended summer books for children go to: Summer Books for Children
