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Summer Reads
Staff at Stanfords share their favourite books for you to enjoy this summer
What We Can Know
by Ian McEwan
Set in: The UK in 2119
2014: A poem is read aloud once then vanishes without a trace. 2119: A century later, the seas have risen and the world is under water.
£10.99
The Silver Book
by Olivia Laing
Set in: Venice and Rome
Queer love story meets true crime thriller in the dream factory of 1970s cinema. An investigation into the difficult relationship between artifice and truth, illusion and reality, love and power
£9.99
Heart the Lover
by Lily King
Set in: USA
Our narrator understands good love stories - their secrets, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules.
£9.99
Imagine Breaking Everything
by Lina Munar Guevara
Set in: Bogotá
It's a rainy weekend in Bogotá, and Melissa is about to graduate from high school.Will she make it to Monday morning without jeopardising her future - or being swallowed up by her past?
£12.99
The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans
Set in: Maryland, USA
Sybil Van Antwerp is seventy-three, slowly losing her sight and always writing letters. But there is one letter that she has never sent. It concerns the darkest period of her life.
£9.99
My Friends
by Fredrik Backman
Set in: Sweden
In the corner of a world-famous painting, three tiny figures sit on the end of a pier, a secret hidden in plain sight. Driven to learn the story behind its creation, Louisa embarks on a journey to the seaside town where it all began.
£9.99






































