7 Books On Our Reading List For July

We’re in the middle of summer which means beach reads galore.

And there are so many incredible books coming out this July that you’ll want to read.

Here are seven books we’re obsessed with…

One Yellow Eye – Leigh Radford

Want to get your 28 Days Later fill before the next film? This book is for you.

Kesta’s husband Tim was the last person to be bitten in a zombie pandemic. The country is now in a period of respite, the government seemingly having rounded up and disposed of all the infected.

While Tim may have been bitten, but he’s not quite dead yet. In fact, he’s tied to a bed in her spare room. And she’s made him a promise: find a cure, bring him back.

A scientist by day, Kesta juggles intensive work under the microscope alongside Tim’s care, slipping him stolen drugs to keep him docile, knowing she is hiding the only zombie left….

Out July 17th

The Compound – Aisling Rawle

Are you just as obsessed with Love Island as we are? Well this book is for you!

In a dystopian reality TV show set in a desert compound, Lily and nine other women must navigate survival, relationships, and competition as they await the arrival of 10 men, facing challenges and moral dilemmas for the chance to win life-changing prizes.

Think Love Island meets Lord of the Flies.

You’ll be on the edge of your seat reading this!

Out Now

A Neighbour’s Guide to Murder – Louise Candlish

It’s rare for a room in beautiful, iconic Columbia Mansions to be up for grabs and Gwen is thrilled when its new occupant Pixie turns out to be the most delightful neighbour she could have wished for…

Before long the two women have formed an unlikely age-gap friendship and Gwen is making herself useful to Pixie in all kinds of ways.

But when a crime comes to light Gwen’s protective instincts go into overdrive, igniting an appetite for revenge that none of the residents are prepared for…

Out July 17th

Selfish Girls – Abigail Bergstrom

Ines is reluctantly moving home on the edge of a breakdown, her childhood sweetheart in tow. He’s only ever wanted what was best for her.

Gwen is elated that her prodigal daughter has returned. Dylan is still licking her wounds from a rejection she can’t forget. And Emma is quietly suffocating in the perfect marriage she wanted so badly.

They were inseparable once. But that was a long time ago. Now, they’re back in the Welsh town where they grew up, peeling back the layers of a once forgotten, haunting past.

What they find may be the end of them…

Out July 10th

Bitter Sweet – Hattie Williams

Charlie is twenty-three, single and the new publicity assistant at the independent London publishing house Winden & Shane. Richard Aveling is fifty-six, married and the author that has defined his generation.

Charlie has long idolised the charming, illustrious writer, who also represents a link to her late mother, who loved his work. But as they embark on an illicit and all-consuming affair, Charlie is forced to hide the relationship from everyone she cares about.

And when the success of Richard’s latest book launches him to a new level of fame where all anonymity is lost, she realises she might just be in too deep…

Out Now

My Sister and Other Lovers – Esther Freud

For as long as Lucy can remember, she’s been caught between loyalty to her rootless, idealistic mother and devotion to her fierce and exacting sister, Bea. From her unsettled childhood to her turbulent teenage years, she’s been forced to make a choice.

But as the sisters come of age and embark on their own experiments – in love, drugs, work, motherhood – they find their lives, and their relationships, increasingly in turmoil.

Can the love they have for each other transcend the damage of the past? Or is the past too dangerous to examine?

Out Now

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping – Sangu Mandanna

Set in a cosy, enchanted inn in the heart of Lancashire, A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping is a gorgeously warm, magical romcom about second chances, found family, and the quiet courage to start again.

Once one of Britain’ s most powerful witches, Sera Swan is now exiled from her Guild, running a magical guesthouse with her reanimated aunt, a semi-villainous talking fox, and an ever-growing cast of quirky guests.

But when a broodingly handsome magical historian named Luke arrives with knowledge of the spell that might restore her power, Sera finds herself drawn into something even more dangerous than spellwork: hope.

Out July 17th