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.
Counteract the commodification of ‘bikini bodies’ with this stunningly sane and strikingly raw account of appetite, shame and self-worth.
Bad Feminist author Roxanne Gay gives a brutally honest account of her own relationship with food and body image: 'I take up space. I intimidate. I want to go unnoticed. I want to disappear until I gain control of my body.’
From over-eating to become ‘repulsive’ to men, to handling the exposure, risks and assumptions that come with obesity, Hunger is confessional writing at its wisest and most urgent.
