Soak Up the Sun

Enjoy the summer with this selection of sunny reads! ☀️🏖️

Updated April 29, 2026
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Under the golden sun : a novel
Ashcroft, Jenny 1980-
Paper Book
'A deeply touching, delicious, slow burn of a love affair. A really excellent book and Jenny Ashcroft's best yet.' Dinah Jeffries 'The perfect way to lose myself, escaping from the every day to travel around the world.' Louise Douglas<...
The sun walks down
McFarlane, Fiona 1978-
Paper Book
'A blazing mystery . . . tremendous' Guardian 'Moving and masterful' Daily Mail 'Masterful storytelling' Washington Post 'Brilliant, fresh and compulsively readable. It is marvellous' Ann Patchett ...
Circling the sun : a novel
McLain, Paula.
Paper Book
A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 'Thrilling...sun-soaked, gin-fuelled...A totally absorbing and compelling read.' Richard & Judy The author of The Paris Wife takes us to the heart of another true story: set in 1920s colonial Kenya, Circling the...
Half of a yellow sun
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 1977-
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BEST Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece This novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a...
Klara and the sun
Ishiguro, Kazuo 1954-
Paper Book
Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.
She who became the sun
Parker-Chan, Shelley
Paper Book
The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller An immersive, historical fantasy set in 14th-century China, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan is a queer tale of love, loss, betrayal and triumph. 'Magnificent in every way' - Samantha Shannon, author of...

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