Summer reading season is upon us and, if you’re lucky enough to be going away over the next few months, you are almost certainly looking for a great book to take with you. And for those of us who would rather not pack a suitcase full of weighty hardbacks – most of us, then – the good news is that plenty of excellent reads are now out in their cheaper, lighter paperback editions.
From Virginia Evans’ Women’s Prize-shortlisted The Correspondent to cyclist Geraint Thomas’s memoir and Val McDermid’s latest crime thriller, here’s our pick of the best…
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy; The Correspondent by Virginia Evans; Amity by Nathan HarrisMother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
The author of Booker-winning The God of Small Things turns inward in this raw, intimate memoir about her formidable mother. A book about grief, defiance and inheritance, it is also the story of the forces that made Roy a writer.
Penguin, £12.99
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Sybil Van Antwerp is 73, losing her sight and still writing letters – to family, authors, neighbours, suitors. But there’s one letter she still can’t bring herself to send. Warm, witty and a little bit devastating, this gorgeous epistolary novel is rightly shortlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize.
Penguin, £9.99
Amity by Nathan Harris
Set in the American South after the Civil War, Harris’s deeply moving novel follows two siblings on parallel journeys towards reunion and reckoning. A powerful story of loss, loyalty and the fragile promise of freedom.
Tinder, £12.99
Injury Time by David Goldblatt; The Eights by Joanna Miller; The Break-In by Katherine FaulknerInjury Time by David Goldblatt
Goldblatt uses football as a way into the state of Britain, tracing how the game reflects shifts in class, politics and national mood. Entertaining, sharp and persuasive, it suits sports fans and social historians alike.
Mudlark, £10.99
The Eights by Joanna Miller
In 1920, women were admitted to Oxford University for the first time. Miller’s enjoyable debut imagines four of them, entirely different from one another but thrown together in lodgings, where they go on to forge a life-changing bond.
Penguin, £9.99
The Break-In by Katherine Faulkner
In this psychological thriller, a stranger appears inside the house during a children’s play date – forcing a mother to kill him. It is ruled self-defence, but her guilt only grows as she starts uncovering who he really was.
Raven Books, £9.99
According to G by Geraint Thomas; Silent Bones by Val McDermid; Men in Love by Irvine WelshAccording to G by Geraint Thomas
Welsh Olympic champion and Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas looks back on two decades in the saddle, from career-defining victories to the brutal demands of the sport. Remarkably capturing his voice, it is one to please the cycling fans.
Quercus, £12.99
Silent Bones by Val McDermid
When a landslide exposes a corpse hidden in tarmac for 11 years, DCI Karen Pirie is drawn into another cold case. McDermid again combines procedural tension with the eerie atmosphere and plenty of buried secrets.
Sphere, £10.99
Men in Love by Irvine Welsh
For anyone wondering what became of Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie after Trainspotting, Welsh picks up their story in characteristically dark, wild fashion, following them through the late Eighties and beyond.
Vintage, £9.99
How Not to be a Political Wife by Sarah Vine; The Traitor’s Circle by Jonathan Freedland; Lush! by Joanna PageHow Not to be a Political Wife by Sarah Vine
When Sarah Vine fell in love with Michael Gove, then a journalist, she never expected to one day be pulled into Westminster life. Now divorced but happily co-parenting, she reflects on marriage, power and life as a political wife.
HarperElement, £10.99
The Traitor’s Circle by Jonathan Freedland
Berlin, 1943: a secret network of aristocrats, diplomats and educators is resisting Hitler – until one of them betrays the others to the Gestapo. Freedland turns this forgotten history into true-life espionage that is as gripping as a thriller.
John Murray, £12.99
Lush! by Joanna Page
From growing up near Swansea to RADA, Love Actually and Gavin & Stacey, Joanna Page looks back on her life and career with warmth and comic candour. It is brimming with backstage stories, honest reflections on motherhood, relatable mishaps and plenty of heart.
Sphere, £12.99
Universality by Natasha Brown
A man is bludgeoned with a solid gold bar, and a young journalist’s long-read about the attack goes viral. Brown’s Booker-longlisted follow-up to Assembly is a smart, state-of-the-nation novel about wealth, truth and power.
Faber, £9.99
The Fathers by John Niven
Through Dan and Jada, two very different Glasgow fathers bound by catastrophe, Niven dissects masculinity, grief and parental terror. The result is heart-stoppingly uncomfortable, sharply observed and compulsively readable.
Canongate, £9.99
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