We're doing something a little different this summer. For the next few weeks Daisy will be curating a selection of the perfect beach reads, designed to delightfully compliment your summer getaway. As well as some tips to help you ease into a reading habit, if you've had some time away, each week there'll be a themed collection of wondrous books. This week's selection involves a collection of thrilling, gripping crime-related greats. Books that will have you on the edge of your seat, or possibly your sun lounger. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic.

BOOKS

Lauren Groff - The Vaster Wilds

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Julia Raeside - Don't Make Me Laugh

Kate Weston - How To Make a Killing

Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train

Elizabeth Bowen - The Heat of the Day

Caroline Corcoran - Tiny Daggers

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

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We're doing something a little different this summer. For the next few weeks Daisy will be curating a selection of the perfect beach reads, designed to delightfully compliment your summer getaway. As well as some tips to help you ease into a reading habit, if you've had some time away, each week there'll be a themed collection of wondrous books. We're kicking off with some saucy, spicy, swooning romantic favourites to slip into your luggage. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic.

BOOKS

Lucy Vine - Book Boyfriend

Freya North - Fen

Lauren Bravo - Probably Nothing

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Jojo Moyes - We All Live Here

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

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You're Booked is on its travels! Here's a very special live episode recorded at Backstory Bookshop in Barcelona with with the wonderful Donna Freitas! Donna resides in Barcelona and is the author of many books including Stefi and the Spanish Prince (set in the city), The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano and Wishful Thinking. She interviewed Daisy to celebrate the release of Read Yourself Happy and they discussed conquering difficult reads, childhood library etiquette and we discover what books the residents of Barcelona can't live without. Thanks to the Grand Hotel Central for hosting us during our stay. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Donna Freitas - Wishful Thinking

Donna Freitas - The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano

Donna Freitas - Stefi and the Spanish Prince

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Ann M Martin - Babysitters Club

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Dick King Smith - The Sheep Pig

Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew Mysteries

Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events

Beverley Cleary - Beezus and Ramona

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Noel Streatfeild - Curtain Up

Samuel Richardson - Pamela

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Laurent de Brunhoff - Babar's World Tour

Nikki May - Wahala

Nikki May - This Motherless Land

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Min Jin Lee - Pachinko

Alexander Chee - Queen of the Night

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini - Kite Runner

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Alberto Moravia - Contempt

Alberto Moravia - Time of Indifference

Ann Morgan - Reading the World

Ann Morgan - Unlearning to Read

David Whitehouse - Saltwater Mansions

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

Joyce Carol Oates - Book of American Martyrs

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

Chris Whitaker - All The Colours of the Dark

Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind

Natasha Lunn - Conversations on Love

Niall Williams - This is Happiness

Olga Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Henri Cole - Orphic Paris

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Atmosphere

Samantha Harvey - Orbital

Alice Winn - In Memoriam

Daisy Buchanan - All Grown Up

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Susan Morrison - Lorne

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Charles Baudelaire - Collected Poems

Rebecca Stead - When You Reach Me

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

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