Chick lit

The Beach House by Jane Green (Michael Joseph, £16.99): A free-spirited woman rents out rooms in her beach house for the summer and finds a single mother and recently separated father among her guests, in this story of second chances.

Got You Back by Jane Fallon (Penguin, £16.99. Available August 15): If you can wait until the latter half of the summer holidays, don't miss this second novel from Fallon. It centres on a husband who leads a secret double life with a wife in London and a mistress in the country, until his wife finds out and confronts the mistress – and they both decide to get their own back.

Late Night Shopping by Carmen Reid (Corgi, £6.99): The eagerly awaited follow-up to Carmen Reid's bestselling novel The Personal Shopper sees stylish, savvy Annie Valentine intent on setting up her own shoe and handbag empire.

Drama

The Return by Victoria Hislop (Headline Review, £17.99): The author's eagerly-awaited second novel is set in Granada, Spain, inspired by the themes of flamenco, music and the civil war. A woman arrives in Granada to dance, knowing nothing of the country's shocking civil war past, and is entranced by the music. A chance conversation with the owner of a café leads her to the story of the Ramirez family who made it their home 70 years earlier.

Attachment by Isabel Fonseca (Chatto & Windus, £15.99): This smart and sexy first novel from the wife of Martin Amis centres on a journalist who opens an erotic email intended for her husband and goes undercover in search of answers.

Crime

The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver (Hodder & Stoughton, £16.99. Available July 24): Quadriplegic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme is back with sidekick Amelia Sachs. He's investigating a case in which his cousin has been accused of murder – but the evidence is just too good to be true. The trail leads to a sinister data collection company, the source of information for a killer who frames a series of people for murder.

The Resurrectionist by James Bradley (Faber, £7.99): Set in London in 1826, this atmospheric thriller sees an apprentice anatomist drawn into the dark power of the city's resurrectionists and their trade in stealing bodies from the grave. Here he finds that life – and opium – is cheap and that evil, once done, can never be taken back.



Satire

Rancid Pansies by James Hamilton-Paterson (Faber, £12.99): From the author of the highly acclaimed Cooking With Fernet Branca comes this satirical black farce whose hero is Gerald Samper, a ghostwriter to unbearable sports celebrities and rock stars, whose dream is to write the libretto of an opera.

History

A History of Modern Britain, by Andrew Marr (Macmillan, £8.99): If you missed the hardback the paperback is out now. Written in Marr's
inimitable style, it offers an accessible insight into the key events and personalities that have shaped Britain since 1945.