Holidays are the best time to indulge in the relaxing pastime of reading a great novel. Here’s our pick of the best poolside and beach reads this summer holidays:
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
A contemporary thriller, it has so many twists and turns it will have you guessing right up until the nail biting finish.
Bridget Jones Mad about the Bay by Helen Fielding
If you like your summertime reading, light, breezy and unchallenging then you’ll enjoy this novel. It follows on from the previous Bridget Jones adventures, with Bridget now 51 and looking for love again.
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season. A great, breezy read!
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Our book clubs favourite book of the year this funny, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love.
Inferno by Dan Brown
If you liked Da Vinci Code, you’ll love Inferno. In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante’s Inferno.
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