Harper Collins Summer Reads

‘Readers, you will shed tears and talk long into the night about this book’ ANDREW SEAN GREER 'A heartbreaking novel' MEG WOLITZER 'A triumph' RUFI THORPE 'Unforgettable' J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN 'Exquisite' TANIA JAMES An extraordinarily beautiful and life-affirming new novel from one of America's greatest chroniclers of the human heart, Ann Packer. Eliot and his wife Claire have been happily...

A homecoming will shake this small town to its very foundations. The taut new mystery from the bestselling author of The Inheritance, perfect for readers of Sally Hepworth and Liane Moriarty. Desperate people do desperate things... Sixteen years ago, teenage Maddie Marshall's body was found on a desolate beach near her hometown, Carrinya. Vibrant, feisty Maddie was the only daughter...

For fans of Kate Quinn and The Nightingale, a gripping story of a young Jewish girl who joins an elite Russian sniper unit and embarks on a mission targeting the highest prize of World War II: Adolph Hitler. With the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Elena Bruskina’s world collapses. The ambitious university student and her Jewish family are quickly...

Katherine Center meets Really Good, Actually in this clever and poignant novel about an English professor who grieves the sudden loss of her husband the Victorian way, by wearing widow's weeds and escaping to London, where she unexpectedly discovers there's still love, life, snark, and burlesque to be had. Dr. Lizzie Wells, a professor of British literature and bestselling author,...

A funny, moving and wise mumcom about reinvention with a vengeance and the power of friendship, for fans of Maggie Alderson, Marian Keyes and Jilly Cooper. When two enterprising women hit the financial skids, they cook up a business to make money from the wife-work they've been doing for decades. But will their labour of love be too hot to...

‘Moore writes in lush, enveloping prose. She turns what could have been just another second-chance romance tale into something more enticing, touching on the pull of memory and the importance of what is passed on’ The Times ‘SUCH a treat! Glorious, glamorous and transporting: the British answer to Taylor Jenkins Reid’ Lucy Foley ‘Totally enchanting…romantic and aspirational. You’ll be captivated’...

The witty and gripping new thriller introducing your new favourite murderous heroine: Lalla Rook. 'The most wildly entertaining novel you'll read this year: suspenseful but funny, shocking yet stylish' – A. J. Finn ‘A wickedly dark and hilarious debut … witty, wise and wildly entertaining’ – Alice Feeney There’s a dead body in my living room. I’ve not called the...