Our marketing manager, Rhiannon’s, perfect pool reads.
What better way to celebrate the beginning of Spring than with a recommendation of some of our favourite books that are just made to be ready by the pool. We have created a capsule list with something for everyone, whether you’re a romance, drama or action reader. Rhiannon, our Marketing Manager’s top picks are below….
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For the romance lovers:
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune - Recently made into a TV adaptation, this follows Percy and Sam over the course of 5 summers as their friendship flourishes into more before falling apart. Set in a lakeside town in Canada, think warm summer nights and falling in love. This is a story about second chances and young summer love.
Happy Place by Emily Henry - The perfect couple on the perfect holiday with their friends - except their no longer a couple… and no one knows. The cottage they holiday at is for sale and they can’t bear to break their friends hearts even more so they only have to fake it for one more week.
Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez - Dr. Briana Ortiz cannot stand the new man-doctor Dr. Jacob Maddox, her divorce is almost finalized and her brother is still waiting for his much needed kidney donor. But when Jacob sends her a letter everything changes, maybe he is not as bad as she made him out to be…
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Some books filled with drama:
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton - An Australian novel set in Brisbane 1985, Eli Bell has a lost father, a mute brother, a junkie mum, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious criminal for a babysitter. This is story of brotherhood, true love and the most unlikely of friendships. The book will both break your heart and mend it back together again.
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus - Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman but in early 1960s her all male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view on equality. But after finding just how unpredicatble life is she finds her self a single mother and the star of the most popular cooking show. Except - she’s not teaching women how to cook she’s daring them to change the status quo.
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid - This is a documentary style book following Daisy Jones and the band The Six through the ups and downs of the rock and roll world in the seventies. Think sneaking into clubs, sleeping with rockstars and big dreams of making it big.
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Now for just a little bit of action:
Every time I Go On Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack - A hilarious action packed mystery following bestselling crime author Eleanor as she is on her book tour in Italy but finds herself in the middle of an attempted murder of her past fling - and he’s enlisted her to help solve the case.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - The ultimate classic revenge and adventure thriller. The story centres on a sailor, Edmond, who was falsely imprisoned for fourteen years, escaping jail and uncovering hidden treasure, he then invents him self as a mysterious Count to seek revenge on those who betrayed him.
Killing Floor by Lee Childs - The first book in the Jack Reacher series. Jack jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Georgia, he is the only stranger in town on the day they have their first homicide is thirty years. As he is arrested and the body count mounts and secrets are leaked - they definitely chose the wrong guy to take the fall.