Ideas for Summer Reading

Reading is a fantastic way to spend those warm summer afternoons once you’ve finished tending to the garden, or when you’re reclined by the pool sipping on your favourite cocktail, or perhaps even sat on the plane waiting to land for a week’s holiday. Wherever it is you are, you can bring a book – that’s the magic of it. These are a few suggested summer reads to give you some ideas.

Bella Pollen’s new novel Summer of the Bear has been recommended by Richard and Judy, and it’s easy to see why. Nicky Fleming is a British diplomat who dies suddenly amid confusion and intrigue. The tale, set in the summer of 1979 and taking place in Cold-War Germany and Scotland, is full of mystery from the onset and sets up one of this year’s most fascinating thrillers.

Novels such as The Firm, The Client and A Time To Kill have made John Grisham one of the best-selling authors of all time. Immensely popular, Grisham’s books provide the quintessential summer read – fast-paced, unflinching, and full of suspense. If you’ve arrived at the airport without a book it is likely that WHSmiths will stock one of these, which is a credit to its popularity.

For those interested in romance rather than thrills you could select a book from the Twilight Saga. Start off with Twilight and you’ll be moving onto New Moon before long. The movies have already spawned a string of movie adaptations and a copycat books focusing on vampires and other supernatural creatures. Older readers might prefer spending their summer reading the humorous but emotive What Alice Forgot by Liana Moriarty. Women in their late 30s in particular will sympathise with the title character who, after an accident at the gym, wakes up thinking she is 29 and having forgotten 10 years of her life.

Readers who dismiss the likes of Grisham and Meyers as too populist may want to grapple with Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse. Woolf thought this was her best novel but it might not be to everyone’s taste. Rather than action and dialogue the novel is filled mainly with reflections and observations about everyday life. To some however, the more sedate pace will seem like a summer gift.

Find a good sharm el sheikh all inclusive holiday to read some of these books.

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