Summer, summer, summertime! Temperatures are soaring, so find some dappled shade and a good book.
This month our library team share their summer reads.
Michele’s choice
Murder on the Marlow Belle / Robert Thorogood
The Marlow Murder Club spring into action again when the head of the local amateur dramatic society washes up on the shore of the Thames with two bullet holes in him in Thorogood’s masterful slice of cosy crime.
pBook – Murder on the Marlow Belle / Robert Thorogood
eBook – Murder on the Marlow Belle / Robert Thorogood
audio – Murder on the Marlow Belle / Robert Thorogood
Sian’s choice
The wild swimmers / William Shaw
The latest novel in William Shaw’s atmospheric series set on the Kent coast.
If only Alexandra Cupidi had turned south instead of north, it would have been her who had discovered the dead woman.
The Wild Swimmers is an explosive return to the DI Alexandra Cupidi Series, where the waters of the Folkstone shoreline bring encounters that could never be foreseen.
pBook – The wild swimmers / William Shaw
Sarah’s choice
Summer secrets at Streamside Cottage / Samantha Tonge
A new start can come from the most unexpected places…It’s been years since Lizzie Lockhart spoke to her parents. But she was safe in the knowledge she knew everything about them. Once upon a time, they were as close as could be. Until they weren’t.
As Lizzie finally begins to piece together the puzzle of her family history she realises she has to confront the truth of the past in order to face her future.
pBook – Summer secrets at Streamside Cottage / Samantha Tonge
eBook – Summer secrets at Streamside Cottage / Samantha Tonge
Claire’s choice
After the Flare / Deji Bryce Olukotun
A solar flare damages electrical systems across the globe leaving most of the world offline and in the dark, save parts of West Africa and South America.
A outstandingly imagined, well-written story that explores a compelling, African-centred future world.
eBook – After the Flare / Deji Bryce Olukotun
Elaine’s choice
The moor / LJ Ross
When a ten-year-old girl turns up on DCI Ryan’s doorstep to tell him she’s witnessed a murder, he has no idea he’s about to step into his most spellbinding case yet.
The circus has rolled into Newcastle upon Tyne, bringing with it a troupe of daring acrobats, magicians, jugglers—and one of them is a killer.
Suzy’s choice
Bat eater / Kylie Lee Baker
Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders in Chinatown. She pushes away all feelings, disregards the bite marks that appear on her coffee table, and won’t take her aunt’s advice to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival, when the gates of hell open. Soon Cora will learn, you can’t just ignore hungry ghosts.
pBook – Bat eater / Kylie Lee Baker
Tamsyn’s choice
Everything is tuberculosis the history and persistence of our deadliest infection/ John Green
Green is a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year.
Everything is Tuberculosis is narrative non-fiction at its finest, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.
Rebecca’s choice
Eurotrash / Christian Kracht
Realising he and she are the worst kind of people, a middle-aged man embarks on a dubious road trip through Switzerland with his eighty-year-old mother, recently discharged from a mental institution.
Driving across the country, they attempt to give away her arms-industry wealth, but a fortune of such immensity is hard to squander. Haunted in different ways by the figure of her father, an ardent supporter of Nazism, mother and son can no longer avoid delving into the darkest truths about their past.
pBook – Eurotrash / Christian Kracht
Henry’s choice
In youth is pleasure / Denton Welch
Orvil Pym does not fit in. A waifish, eccentric, sensitive fifteen-year-old, he hates school and longs to be alone.
Spending his summer holidays in a genteel Surrey hotel with his mysterious father and two brothers who don’t understand him, he explores ancient churches, spies on a man rowing in the river and collects antiques, escaping into his own singular aesthetic world.
First published in 1945, this is a beautifully odd and unforgettable portrayal of a young man’s sensuous coming-of-age.
pBook – In youth is pleasure / Denton Welch
Ann’s choice
The last dream / Pedro Almodovar
With this debut collection, film legend Pedro Almodóvar delivers a tantalizing glimpse into his world, twelve remarkable stories spanning memoir, comedy, autofiction, parody, pastiche, and gothic fiction.
pBook – The last dream / Pedro Almodovar
