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9 Books To Take On Your Next Getaway

Whether you’re planning a late summer getaway abroad or weekend staycation, we’ve handpicked the must-reads to accompany you on your next trip. From brand new stories of romance to classic dystopian novels, add these to your reading list today.

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
 
Introducing a compelling speculative mystery by one of Japan’s greatest writers. When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by ‘the Memory Police’, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn’t forget, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories.
 
The Memory Police is a beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss.

Someone We Know by Shari Lapena
 
It can be hard keeping secrets in a tight-knit neighbourhood. In a tranquil, leafy suburb of ordinary streets – one where everyone is polite and friendly – an anonymous note has been left at some of the houses: ‘I’m so sorry. My son has been getting into people’s houses. He’s broken into yours.’ Who is this boy, and what might he have uncovered? As whispers start to circulate, suspicion mounts.

The Day We Met by Roxie Cooper
 
Stephanie doesn’t believe in fate, true love or living happily ever after. She’s content enough being engaged to Matt. Jamie is happily married to his childhood sweetheart Helen and believes in everything Stephanie doesn’t. When they meet one fateful weekend in 2006 it will change everything.
 
The Day We Met is a moving and heart-warming love story to lose yourself in this summer.

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
 
When Rowan stumbles across the advert, it seems like too good an opportunity to miss: a live-in nanny position at Heatherbrae House, the luxurious home in the beautiful Scottish Highlands. What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare – one that will end with a child dead and her in a cell awaiting trial for murder.
 
Full of spellbinding menace, The Turn of the Key is a gripping modern-day thriller from international bestseller Ruth Ware.

Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
 
In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein – against their better judgement – a celebrated professor leading the public debate around Artificial Intelligence. In Frankissstein, Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realise, whilst exploring the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire. Funny, furious and bold, this is a modern reimagining of Mary Shelley’s gothic novel, set to grapple with sexuality and technology.

The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
 
Carcassonne 1562. Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father’s bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: ‘She knows that you live’. A young Huguenot convert, Piet Reydon, has a dangerous mission and he will need Minou’s help if he is to get out of La Cité alive.
 
A thrilling adventure, and a heart-breaking love story, The Burning Chambers is a historical novel of excitement, conspiracy and danger like no other.

The Spanish Promise by Karen Swan
 
Set in the vibrant streets of Madrid, one of Spain’s richest men is dying but as he prepares his estate, his family is shocked to discover he is planning to leave his wealth to a young woman they have never heard of. Who is she and what hold does she have over him?
 
Charlotte Fairfax is asked to travel to the family’s home in Spain to get to the bottom of the mysterious bequest. In Madrid, things don’t go to plan when Charlotte digs into the family’s history and unearths a dark, shocking past in which two people were torn apart by conflict.
 
This is a must-read by the Sunday Times bestselling author and a summer favourite.

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
 
With its long-awaited sequel, The Testaments, being published on 10th September, there’s no better time to read (or re-read) this bestseller by Margaret Atwood. A terrifying glimpse of a dystopian future that sometimes feels all-too-near, this book gives full rein to Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit and perception.

The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton
 
In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the talented Edward Radcliffe descend upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared.
 
Over 150 years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a satchel containing an artist’s drawing of the house. Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she give up her secrets?

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