If you have a holiday coming up any time soon, here are 14 books to download now on your ereader. They're all under a pound from bookshop.org, an online bookshop that supports local, independent bookshops.
Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
This book's main character, Elizabeth Zott, is a fantastic and memorable creation. As this feisty chemist turned TV cookery show host teaches the nation's women to cook, she's also empowering them to find their voices - and not everyone's happy about it... I savoured every page!
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Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
Journalist and podcast host Dolly Alderton's debut work of fiction follows Nina, a woman in her early 30s dealing with changing relationships as friends settle down and move to the suburbs, while her father slips further away from her due to dementia.
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The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver's first novel is now widely regarded as a modern classic. It's the engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who wants to get away from where she grew up. But as she heads outy on her own, she ends up acquiring a completely unexpected child and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity for putting down roots.
The Truth Of Us by Sara Cox
Radio DJ Cox's second novel is a moving story of friendship and found family. Abi and Christy grow up together in 1980s Manchester and are as close as sisters - until a secret tears them apart. Years later, they reconnect but has life taken them too far in different directions for them to be friends again?
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
This is a must-read for anyone woman who was brought up to be good, dutiful and to push down her own needs. Through 'ah-ha!' moments from her own life, Doyle shows how she learned that pleasing others is impossible and how by understanding that she becomes free to please herself.
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Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Escape the madness with this otherworldly short novel set aboard a spacecraft. The latest offering from an author I’ve long loved, it’s gorgeously written and offers a intriguing perspective on the human race’s treatment of our planet.
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
This expose of life at Meta is horrifying and gripping in equal measure. Wyn-Williams joined Facebook full of hope but was shocked to discover the truth about the company's modus operandi. A memoir that's as much of a page-turner as any novel.
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Henry is known for her swoonsome romances set in beautiful locations. This one is set on a small island off the coast of Georgia, where a reclusive heiress invites two authors – Alice and Hayden – to compete to write her biography. Will their hatred of each other stand in the way of getting the job done?
The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Dare
This moving, electric novel is the story of 14-tear-old Adunni dreams of getting an education and giving her family a more comfortable home in her small Nigerian village. When her father sells her off to become the third wife of an old man, she must find her voice and make a better life.
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
The Wych Elm by Tana French
Toby has always led a charmed life until a brutal attack leaves him damaged and traumatised. His family's ancestral home, the Ivy House, becomes a refuge until the day a discovery is made: a skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden.
A Slow Burning Fire by Paula Hawkins
I was hooked on this perfectly paced thriller. After a 23-year-old man is found dead on his houseboat in London, it triggers suspicions about three women who knew him: troubled Laura, who was with him on his last night alive; Carla, his estranged aunt; and Miriam, the neighbourhood busybody.
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
The Booker Prize-winner returns with a thoughtful novel about three generations of women living in the shadow of fictional Irish poet Phil McDaragh, an abusive womaniser. It explores how trauma is passed from mother to daughter, with sublime writing and beautiful poetry.
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Strout revisits the world of successful New York writer Lucy Barton as she returns to her home town after 17 years of absence to visit the siblings she left behind. As with everything Strout writes, the writing is beautiful and luminous - one to get lost in.
The Quiet Girls by Dorothy Koomson
Profiler Dr Kez Lanyon finds herself working undercover as a therapist at a prestigious girls' school after several of the girls go missing. No spoilers from us but the ending is the very definition of tense!
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