Books

The school holidays are in full swing and it’s the perfect opportunity to take time out with a good book.

When the body of a Hasidic Jewish woman is found in a New York scrapyard, rookie reporter Rebekah Roberts finds herself immersed in a cloistered world where it soon becomes clear she is not welcome.

Take a trip to beautiful Venice and the stunning Amalfi coast, join a group of brave women on wartime adventures, and meet a middle-aged woman on the cusp of a new life.

‘We all need a bit of magic in our lives.’

When the demolition of an old cottage exposes the skeleton of a man dressed in eighteenth-century clothes, an extraordinary chapter of Bath’s history looks like it may well have to be rewritten.

One of last year’s most outstanding thrillers was JP Delaney’s The Girl Before, a mesmerising exploration of obsession and deceit which was quickly snapped up for the big screen by Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment.

When Rachel Walker wakes up with a crippling hangover in her neighbours’ spare bedroom on the morning after a party, she has no recollection of how she got there.

It’s holiday time and the Little Tiger Group, an exciting independent publisher on a mission to create engaging and inspiring books for children and young people, has a bundle of entertaining and enlightening books to keep youngsters busy over the summer.

Jess Pendleton has a shocking secret… but she’s determined not to let that spoil a holiday in France with her young son.

They say that love makes the world go round but relationships – in all their many forms – are surely what keep us humans ticking.

When Oswald Mosley’s blackshirts arrive in a peaceful Sussex coastal village for a summer camp in 1935, a restless teenage girl is seduced by their dark, alien charms.

A young historian’s holiday in Naples becomes an emotional journey into a long-lost wartime love affair in a beautiful and evocative novel from bestselling author Rachel Hore.

Some like it hot… and not just the sunshine this summer!

As the long school holidays stretch ahead, take time out with some brilliant summer reads to keep the kids out of trouble.

Young Grace Kettle dreams of becoming a nun… but what she hadn’t reckoned on was falling in love.

Just a year after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, author Lucinda Riley started work on a novel set within a fictional royal family.

Tucked away in a corner of Dublin is leafy, lovely Primrose Square, an oasis of tranquillity in the busy, bustling city.