Need a good book for your summer holiday? Check out our selection of top 10 summer reads below. Perfect for when you're relaxing and sunning yourself on the beach!
The Great Lover by Jill Dawson
Tells the story of handsome poet Rupert Brooke who moves in as a lodger at the Orchard Tea Gardens In the summer of 1909. This captivating novel gives voice to Rupert Brooke himself in a tale of mutual fascination and inner turmoil, set at a time of great social unrest. Revealing a man far more complex and radical than legend suggests, it powerfully conveys the allure -- and curse -- of charisma.
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Palace Council by Stephen L.Carter
Twenty powerful men gather in secret and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States. Soon after, writer Eddie Wesley leaves a party hosted by affluent and influential members of black society, and discovers a body. Eddie's sister Junie then vanishes...Is her disappearance connected to the conspiracy to control the President?
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
One of my favourite books, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love set against the Taliban uprising in Kabul. Just as good as Hosseini's The Kite Runner, if not better.
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The Island by Victoria Hislop
The acclaimed million-copy number one bestseller is wonderful. Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother's past but Sofia has never spoken of it. When Alexis decides to visit Crete, however, Sofia gives her daughter a letter to take to an old friend, and promises that through her she will learn more. She discovers how intimately she is connected with the island, and how secrecy holds them all in its powerful grip...
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Mr Toppit by Charles Elton
Spanning several decades, from the heyday of the British film industry after the war to the cut-throat world of show business in Los Angeles, Mr Toppit is a riveting tale of the unexpected effects of sudden fame and fortune. Not since Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up! has a novel managed to capture a family and a society to such wonderfully funny and painful effect.
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