Smart, seductive reads for long summer days. Stories of desire, ambition, identity, obsession, and escape. From sun-drenched coming-of-age fiction to sharp contemporary love stories and darkly funny literary gems, discover the books we’ll be talking about all summer.
An unforgettable story of love, artistic collaboration, and two people coming of age, together and apart.
A stunning and deeply moving novel of grief, loss and female friendship, set against the backdrop of two cataclysmic natural events.
Both an unforgettable love story and a state-of-the-nation thriller, My Only Boy asks universal questions about desire, complicity, and what happens when your sense of self collapses along with the world around you.
Megha Majumdar’s electrifying new novel – longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction – is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other – a piercing and propulsive tour de force.
First Summer captures the innocence and agony of adolescence and the exquisite promise of love on the cusp of adulthood: a moment where fantasy is still vivid in the mind. This story of the first summer of love echoes throughout the characters’ lives and will change them forever.
This wry, moving, exquisitely observed novel introduces a singularly eccentric family and the long-buried secrets that have shaped them.
From the Women’s Prize for Fiction longlisted author of Intuition a comes timeless story of a woman fighting for survival, inspired by the real life of a sixteenth-century heroine.
A thrilling breakdown of our obsession with authentic true love, and announces Sophie Kemp as a brilliant and wholly original new voice in fiction.
