Take 3kg Off Your Luggage Allowance With Kobo’s Top 10 Summer eReads
Want a summer holiday filled with fantasy, adventure and gripping thrillers?
To make sure thousands of Brits have a vacation to remember, Kobo, the digital eReading company, has hand-picked this summer’s top 10 must-eReads – to enlighten your holiday and take pounds off your luggage allowance!
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Relax and take a journey of unrequited love; Greek tragedy, game playing, secrecy; and even murder! With these top ten summer eReads:
Top 10 Summer Reads 2012:
The Thread, by Victoria Hislop, RRP £4.99
Thessaloniki, 2007. A young Anglo-Greek hears the life story of his grandparents for the first time and realises he has a decision to make. For many decades, they have looked after the memories and treasures of people who have been forcibly driven from their beloved city. Should he become their new custodian?
Jubilee, by Shelley Harris, RRP £4.99
It is 1977, the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, and a photographer captures a moment forever: a street party with bunting and Union Jacks fluttering in the breeze. Right in the centre of the frame, a small Asian boy stares intently into the camera. The photograph becomes iconic, a symbol of everything that is great about Britain. But the harmonious image conceals a very different reality.
The Fear Index, by Robert Harris, RRP £3.49
Meet Alex Hoffman: among the secretive inner circle of the ultra-rich, he is something of a legend. Based in Geneva, he has destroyed a revolutionary system that has the power to manipulate financial markets. Generating billions of dollars, it is the system that thrives on panic – and feeds on fear. And then, in the early hours of one morning, while he lies asleep, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside home. So begins a waking nightmare…
The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern, RRP £3.49
The circus arrives without warning. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents, Le Cirque des Rêves is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazement. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing.
The Secrets Between Us, by Louise Douglas, RRP £3.99
Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark. Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident. Her decision then turns into a deception that takes on a life of its own and threatens the special bond between mother and daughter.
The Hypnotist, by Lars Kepler, RRP £3.99
The No 1 Scandinavian crime bestseller. Detective Inspector Joona Linna is faced with a boy who witnessed the gruesome murder of his family. He’s suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and is comatose with shock. Linna’s running out of time. The killer’s on the run and, seemingly, there are no clues. Desperate for information, Linna enlists disgraced hypnotist Dr Erik Maria Bark. As the hypnosis begins, a long and terrifying chain of events unfurls.
Tideline, by Penny Hancock, RRP £4.99
One winter’s afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home to fifteen-year-old Jez, the nephew of a family friend. He’s come to borrow some music. Sonia invites him in and soon decides that she isn’t going to let him leave.
The Book of Summers, by Emylia Hall, RRP 4.99
Inside is a letter informing her that her long-estranged mother has died, and a scrapbook Beth has never seen before. Entitled The Book of Summers, it’s stuffed with photographs and mementos complied by her mother to record the seven glorious childhood summers Beth spent in rural Hungary. And it was a time that came to the most brutal of ends the year Beth turned sixteen.
A Perfectly Good Man, by Patrick Gale, RRP £4.99
When 20-year-old Lenny Barnes, paralysed in a rugby accident, commits suicide in the presence of Barnaby Johnson, the much-loved priest of a West Cornwall parish, the tragedy’s reverberations open up the fault-lines between Barnaby and his nearest and dearest. The personal stories of his wife, children and lover illuminate Barnaby’s ostensibly happy life, and the gulfs of unspoken sadness that separate them all. Across this web of relations scuttles Barnaby’s repellent nemesis – a man as wicked as his prey is virtuous.
Alice Bliss, by Laura Harrington, RRP £3.70
Alice Bliss is a profoundly moving coming-of-age novel about love and its many variations–the support of a small town looking after its own; love between an absent father and his daughter; the complicated love between an adolescent girl and her mother; and an exploration of new love with the boy-next-door.
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