The sun is out and that can only mean one thing: summer reading season is here. From the long-awaited return of Candice Carty-Williams’s Queenie to funny new essays from America’s best humourist David Sedaris and another gripping non-fiction instalment from Annie Jacobsen, here are the best 14 books to delve into while on the sunlounger or in the local park…
Queenie is Working on It by Candice Carty-Williams; The First House by Avni Doshi; Family Friends by Chloë Ashby
Queenie is Working on It by Candice Carty-Williams
Carty-Williams’s debut novel Queenie was a smash hit back in 2019, introducing readers to the eponymous, chaotic south Londoner. In this long-awaited follow up, Queenie is now 33 and facing fertility questions, housing anxiety, career frustrations and a situationship that keeps disappearing.
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