New good books to read

A dark academia thriller? We’re sold. When We Were Silent follows Lou who joins Dublin’s most prestigious private school, Highfield, in her final year. The school is hiding a dark secret and Lou is determined to reveal it, however when she befriends Shauna, her plans are in danger. If she speaks out about the school it threatens Shauna, and Lou soon learns just what Highfield will do to protect its own. So 30 years later when Lou is called to testify against the school, can she confront her past?

Published on 2nd May

Daisy thinks she has it all, a dream job, a beautiful home, and a loving boyfriend. Except it all comes tumbling down when she catches her boyfriend having sex with someone else at her 40th birthday. Now, she’s back in her childhood bedroom and wondering if her dreams of having a child will ever happen. This is a hilariously warm novel you will not be able to put down.

Published on 9th May

TikTok’s favourite nutritionist Emily English is finally here with her first recipe book. So Good is filled with over 80 delicious recipes that are nutritionally balanced including fluffy ricotta lemon pancakes and chicken and spicy guacamole lunch time tacos. We’re hungry just thinking about this book.

Published on 9th May

Lottie Mills was the winner of the BBC’s Young Writer’s Award in 2020 and is now releasing her first short story collection, Monstrum. Monstrum tells a number of stories about people who are excluded from society who can’t accept their differences. There’s the father and daughter who build a life for themselves on a deserted beach, a disabled woman who opts to receive a ‘perfect pain free body’ but soon discovers the consequences of her actions, and a circus master who discovers a ‘grotesque’ woman he plans to make the star of his show, but she has other plans.

Published on 16 May

Miranda July’s second novel All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. A relatively famous artist announces she’s taking a roadtrip from LA to New York, leaving her husband and child at home. But 30 minutes into her cross country journey she exits the freeway and stays in a motel where she begins a temporary reinvention.

Published on 16th May

After a long anticipated wait, Coco Mellors, the author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein is back with her second novel Blue Sisters. The new novel tells the story of the three blue sisters, Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky who are mourning the loss of their fourth sister Nicky on the one year anniversary of her death. The story takes place across Paris, London, Los Angeles and New York, and shows us how each sister is coping (or failing to cope) with both their grief and other problems in their lives they need to tackle as well as the complicated relationship siblings have with each other. It will make you laugh, cry deeply, and immediately make you want to call your siblings.

Published on 23rd May

If you loved Brooklyn, you’ll be pleased to know Colm Tóibín has finally published to the novel. Long Island catches us up with Ellis and Tony, who are married 20 years and have two children. So when a man with an Irish accent turns up on her door, it makes Ellis questions everything and wonder did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony?

Published on 23rd May

Hera is a retelling of one of Greek mythologies, most powerful and often most misunderstood Greek goddesses. When Hera helped her brother Zeus overthrow their tyrannical father she presumed she would rule at his side, but as they reign from Mount Olympus the apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree where Zeus is concerned. Can Hera forge a better world?

Published on 23rd May

Calling all Bridgerton fans, as the TV series returns this month, so too does a Regency romcom series that you need to add to your TBR. The second in The Marleigh Sisters stories, you don’t have to have read the first novel to enjoy this scintillating and scandalous story. Court singer for Queen Charlotte, Anya Marleigh’s life is turned upside down when she is left a large amount of money. The only catch is she must marry in a month, or Lord Ashton, the trustee of the will and the man she detests, will inherit Anya’s fortune.

Published on 23rd May

What would we do without a new Harlan Coben mystery in our lives? Coben is back with another instalment in the Myron Bolitar series, and this time Bolitar is looking for his former client and rival Greg Downing. Downing’s DNA was found at the scene of a high profile murder and he’s now the main suspect for the FBI. The only problem? Bolitar went to Downing’s funeral three years ago. Could he really be alive?

Published on 23rd May