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.
Brideshead Revisited meets The Secret History in this elegant thriller.
Entitlement, sycophancy and obsession come to a head at a 40th birthday party. The sudden scrutiny of a police investigation peels back decades of secrets to an incident at Oxford University.
The Party might not be the most original premise but it has all the glamour and tension that makes a crime novel sizzle. And Elizabeth Day drip feeds clues with for maximum intrigue and binge-ability.
