A Summer in Pages
Zimmermann’s Must-Reads
Sophie’s Mykonos Picks
Consider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley
Jessica Stanley’s Consider Yourself Kissed is warm, clever and downright miraculous. Step aside Emma and Dexter, 2025’s summer belongs to Coralie and Adam.
Coralie is an Australian writer who, running from chaos at home, flees to London in search of new beginnings. Yet despite falling in love with charming Englishman, Adam, a political journalist and father of a lively four-year-old girl, and excelling in her work as copywriter at a prestigious London agency, Coralie detects something essential is missing.
Utterly absorbing, achingly poignant and tenderly romantic this frequently hilarious novel explores the challenges of moving to a new city and trying to fit in, making a home far from home and navigating the mad tapestry of modern family life.
I loved this book with all my heart and I never wanted it to end.
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
‘Being one of four sisters always felt like being part of something magic.’
This story of the deep bonds of sisters is an uber-modern Little Women. Avery the perfectionist lawyer, Bonnie the boxer-turned-bouncer and Lucky, the jet-setting model are brought together on the anniversary of their beloved sister’s death. As their absent, dysfunctional parents threaten to sell the New York apartment in which they were raised, the sisters are forced to put aside their differences. An emotional tale of love and loss and the healing powers of family.
Circe by Madeline Miller
Be transported by Greek mythology’s most kickass woman. A breath-taking adventure that will set your pulse racing and move you to tears.
Circe, daughter of Helios the god of the sun, is not as beautiful as her sisters, and her family think she’s a freak. She’s sensitive and curious; a loner in possession of strange powers. Deemed too dangerous, her father banishes her to the remote island of Aiaia for eternity. Here Circe discovers her ability to tame wild beasts, cast spells, practice witchcraft and endure in solitude.
When an extraordinary mortal arrives on her shores her life is altered forever.
A beautiful retelling of The Odyssey for modern times.
‘But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.’
Wellness by Nathan Hill
A modern love story that captures the spirit of the age. This novel is a beautifully written and brilliantly observed portrait of a modern-day marriage.
Jack and Elizabeth meet at college in Chicago in 1993 in the era of pre-internet optimism, kindred spirits from wildly different backgrounds who fall deeply for each other. Twenty years later, their idealistic hopes are crushed and their artistic ambitions are yet to be realised. Their marriage begins to unravel under the force of financial strain, internet algorithms, gentrification and the baffling rules of modern parenting. In a race for wellness they’ve lost intimacy and may lose each other. Jack and Elizabeth must ultimately confront the painful secrets of their dysfunctional pasts in order to navigate their future.
Funny, romantic, satirical and wise, this New York Times bestseller is a novel for our times.
A Theatre For Dreamers by Polly Samson
Set on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, young Erica, a London runaway, discovers a theatre for dreamers on the idyllic island of Hydra. In the sun-drenched bohemia of crystalline waters and Mediterranean sun, Erica dreams of finding her own voice among the writers, poets, painters and musicians who populate her new, colourful existence.