Bring on the books: best summer reads 2017
Whether you’re arming yourself for weeks on the beach or planning lazy lunch hours in the park, sunny days call for a reading list overhaul. Forget those titles gathering dust on your bedside table and revive your ‘to read’ list with the best new books summer 2017 has to offer.
We’ve read our way through this year’s releases to compile a list of 12 books not to miss. There’s pacy crime, feel-good romance and enough literary clout to spark the interest of the Booker Prize panel.
Click through our slide show of the best new books to revive your reading list.
Stay With Me is, to cannibalise the title, the kind of book that stays with you long after the final page. Ayòbámi Adébáyò’s debut novel is a heart-wrenching and utterly absorbing portrait of one woman’s struggle to become a mother.
Yejide’s frustration, determination and desperation is achingly real, and the increasingly volatile Nigerian backdrop sings with life. As you inhabit the story, Adébáyò twists and tautens the plot into an increasingly gripping conclusion.
