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 Harris
Mother 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.
