Enjoy reading in the garden this summer. Picture: Getty HOLIDAYS will feel slightly different this year with foreign jaunts looking unlikely (at least at present). Whether you are heading off to explore Scotland at large – or relaxing in your own back garden – our round-up of recent fiction and non-fiction releases is designed to help you while away a lazy afternoon (or two).
THRILLERS
Hostage by Clare Mackintosh (Sphere, £14.99) Fasten your seatbelts. Hostage is a white-knuckle ride that takes the classic locked-room thriller airborne. This gripping read by police officer-turned-author Clare Mackintosh is set on board the inaugural non-stop flight from London to Sydney. If all goes to plan, the 20-hour service will make history. But when a flight attendant receives a note with a chilling ultimatum from an anonymous passenger, the intent is clear: the plane will never reach its destination.
By Emily Lee
Photo: Penguin Random House
Beach season is here. If you like to sit out by the ocean with a good book to keep you company, you re in luck there are plenty of new page-turners out this summer. From swoon-worthy romances to chilling thrillers, there are all different kinds of beach reads on this list. All you have to do now is grab one of these books and head to the beach.
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Official Synopsis: Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.
By Emily Lee
Photo: Penguin Random House
Beach season is here. If you like to sit out by the ocean with a good book to keep you company, you re in luck there are plenty of new page-turners out this summer. From swoon-worthy romances to chilling thrillers, there are all different kinds of beach reads on this list. All you have to do now is grab one of these books and head to the beach.
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Official Synopsis: Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.