Summertime Reads

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Summertime Reads

Here's a selection of our favourite summertime reads, including poetry, fiction, and nature writing inspired by the warm days of summer. Plus a few titles on taking joy from the bright colours of this season.

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Assembly: The critically acclaimed debut novel

Natasha Brown

£9.99

£9.49

The Black Flamingo

Dean Atta and Anshika Khullar

£7.99

£7.59

Bluets: AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS

Maggie Nelson

£12.99

£12.34

The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

Nick Hayes

£9.99

£9.49

My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante

£9.99

£9.49

An English Summer

Chanel Irvine

£30.00

£28.50

The English Summer

Holly Hopkins

£9.99

£9.49

Great Gatsby (Wisehouse Classics Edition)

F Scott Fitzgerald

£9.83

£9.33

Hot Milk

Deborah Levy

£9.99

£9.49

The Hummingbird: 'Magnificent' (Guardian)

Sandro Veronesi

£8.99

£8.54

In: The Graphic Novel

Will McPhail

£20.00

£19.00

The Instant: Sunday Times Bestseller

Amy Liptrot

£14.99

£14.24

Instant-flex 718

Heather Phillipson

£9.95

£9.45

Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year

Kazuo Ishiguro

£9.99

£9.49

Lee Krasner: Living Colour

£35.00

£33.25

The Mermaid of Black Conch: The spellbinding winner of the...

Monique Roffey

£9.99

£9.49

Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout

£8.99

£8.54

The Native Trees of Canada

Leanne Shapton

£14.99

£14.24

The Perfect Golden Circle: Selected for BBC 2 Between the...

Benjamin Myers

£16.99

£16.14

Pharmacopoeia: A Dungeness Notebook

Derek Jarman

£12.99

£12.34

A Poem for Every Summer Day

Allie Esiri

£15.99

£15.19

Rainbow Milk: an Observer 2020 Top 10 Debut

Paul Mendez

£9.99

£9.49

The Salt Path: The 85-Week Sunday Times Bestseller from the...

Raynor Winn

£10.99

£10.44

The Secret Lives of Colour

Kassia St Clair

£14.99

£14.24

This One Sky Day: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022

Leone Ross

£8.99

£8.54

Sorrow and Bliss: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for...

Meg Mason

£9.99

£9.49

Summer: Winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021

Ali Smith

£8.99

£8.54

The Summer Book: A Novel

Tove Jansson

£9.99

£9.49

The Summer I Turned Pretty: Now a major TV series on Amazon...

Jenny Han

£8.99

£8.54

Ten Poems for Summer

Various Authors

£5.95

£5.65

Three Summers

Margarita Liberaki

£8.99

£8.54

Where the Wildflowers Grow: Shortlisted for the Richard...

Leif Bersweden

£25.00

Why I am Not a Painter and Other Poems

Frank O'Hara

£9.95

£9.45

Windswept: why women walk

Annabel Abbs

£16.99

£16.14