July Book Reviews

From a long-awaited follow-up to an irresistible slice of history, July is a literary month to be reckoned with 

AFTER WE BURNED 

by Marieke Nijkamp 

She deserved more. They all did. A gripping and emotional new suspense novel from the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of This is Where it Ends takes the form of a terrible accident, a horrible loss and a regrettable tragedy. 

It’s all anyone in Fenix can talk about when a fire consumes the local high school, taking the life of a student. The town mourns, except who really knew – let alone cared about – Eden when she was alive? And why was she in the building that night?

Published July 1st by Sourcebooks Fire 

LION HEARTS – THE ESSEX DOGS TRILOGY 

by Dan Jones

Three years after the Essex Dogs battled through the Siege of Calais, the Black Death has torn through Europe and life is as tough as it ever was. 

Lion Hearts is the thrilling, unmissable follow-up to Wolves of Winter by Sunday Times bestselling historian Dan Jones, which follows the fortunes of ordinary soldiers in the early years of the Hundred Years’ War.

Published July 31st by Head of Zeuss 

JESS AND NORMA: A LIFETIME OF LAUGHTER AND OUR UNBREAKABLE BOND 

by Jessica Asquith 

The hilarious and heartwarming autobiography from social media’s favourite grandma and granddaughter, in which the pair open up about the personal events that have shaped their unbreakable bond – from the adventures they’ve been on to the great loves and losses experienced. 

Written for anyone who has found comfort in the hit duo’s videos, this is a book that brings a smile to faces and warms the heart. 

Published July 17th by Ebury Press 

MEN IN LOVE 

by Irvine Welsh 

Choose life. Choose love? No.1 bestselling author and cultural icon Irvine Welsh returns with a new novel that has several echoes of old. 

Opening in the late 1980s as rave culture is born and moving into the 1990s, Men In Love reunites the Trainspotting crew for a riotous new journey. Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie leave heroin behind and seek joy, and the hope of redemption, on the dance floor. 

Each wants to feel alive in the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain, and they fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead. Taking in Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam and Paris, the group charges towards an unexpected event: Sick Boy’s wedding day. But is fallingin love the answer, or just another doomed quest? 

Published July 24thby Vintage Publishing