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Summer Pick of the Paperbacks - Fiction 2025

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Welcome to Glorious Tuga

The Safekeep

The Coast Road: ‘A perfect book club read’ Sunday Times

Shy Creatures: The perfect summer read from the bestselling author of Small Pleasures

Lightborne: A Times Best Historical Fiction Book of 2024

Intermezzo: The global #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People

James

The Two Loves of Sophie Strom

The Examiner: the Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Appeal

A Little Trickerie

Precipice

Down Cemetery Road: Zoe Boehm Thrillers 1

Tell Me Everything

All the Colours of the Dark: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller – ‘a wonderful book’ (Richard Osman)

All Fours

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Sicily: Essential recipes from a Mediterranean island

Foolproof Traybakes: 60 Simple and Delicious One-Tin Bakes

The Spanish Pantry: 12 Ingredients, 100 Simple Recipes

Flavour Heroes: 15 Modern Pantry Ingredients to Amplify Your Cooking

Boustany: A celebration of vegetables from my Palestine

Eat Copenhagen: Recipes and Stories From Scandinavia

Cooking With Vegetables: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Dolci Italiani: Desserts, Cakes & Other Sweet Bakes from Italy

The Greek Islands Cookbook: Simple sun-kissed recipes

Cooking Fast and Slow: Easy, Comforting, (Mostly) Plant-based Recipes for Busy People

A Cheesemonger's Compendium of British & Irish Cheese

Sama Sama: Comfort food from my Malaysian-Scottish kitchen

Modern Indian: Small Plates, Big Flavours, Fabulous Feasts

K-Quick: Korean Food in 30 Minutes or Less

Home Shores: 100 Simple Fish Recipes to Cook at Home

Bàrd Book Club picks

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How to Leave the House

Paradais

Evenings and Weekends

Losing the Plot

Colony

Spent Light

The Ministry of Time: The romantic, sci-fi, comedic, literary, genre-defying bestseller

Eurotrash - A Novel

The Death of Bunny Munro

Convenience Store Woman

James

Assembly: The critically acclaimed debut novel

When I Sing, Mountains Dance

Time of the Flies

The Fetishist: a darkly comic tale of rage and revenge – ‘Exceptionally funny, frequently sexy’ Pandora Sykes

Criminally Good Books

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The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne

Death in the Air: ONE OF THE BEST MURDER MYSTERIES OF ALL TIME - LUCY FOLEY

The Art of a Lie: A Gripping Historical Thriller of Murder and Deceit in 18th-Century London

The Bewitching: folk horror meets dark academia in this thrilling supernatural mystery

Beach Bodies

Migraine

The Eyes Are the Best Part: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING 'GOOD FOR HER' K-THRILLER

A Death on Location: The no.1 bestselling series

Matchmaking for Psychopaths: The most compelling, hilarious, and twisty book of the summer, 'SO MUCH FUN' Marian Keyes

Murder at Gulls Nest: Nora Breen Investigates, the charming new historical seaside murder mystery, from much-loved author Jess K

The House of Mirrors: called 'a gorgeous, creepy Gothic story for our times' by NICCI FRENCH

Snap: The astonishing Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick

The Lamb: The bestselling literary sensation of 2025

A Murder for Miss Hortense: 'It's Murder She Wrote as you've never seen it before' Sir Lenny Henry

The Jealous One: 'Irresistible.' (Val McDermid)