Summer without books is a nightmare. Prepare yourself for a blissful season of reading. Whether you’re hitting the road, relaxing by the beach, waiting for your flight or maybe just spending quiet time at home. What is your best summer read? If you’re looking for a hot new book to put in your bag, we’ve picked some of our favourite best summer reads that 2018 has to offer.

1. The Angelheart Saga Book 1: First Came Forever, by Annie Woods

First love. A promise of forever. A lie that changes everything.

Backpacking with her high school friends, Erica Lindell's life takes a thrilling new turn. Meeting the fascinating Sasha Ailes, she can't help but fall completely and irrevocably in love with him. When he feels the same way about her, Erica finds herself drawn into a fairytale love story that will set her life on a new direction. But Sasha has kept his true identity a secret. Finding out who he really is, Erica must overcome the betrayal and make the hardest choice of her life. Can she give up her own dreams to live in his world, or leave and lose him forever?

First Came Forever is an enchanting, heart-wrenching story about finding true love and the devastating consequences it can lead to. What price is too high to pay, even for love?

2. Age is Just a Number - New Beginnings, by L.I. Beer

Elspeth Michaels has been a widow for five years with two young adults; Rupert is a bachelor and they both meet at a dinner party given by mutual friends. As with all relationships, nothing ever goes smoothly, especially among the family dynamics as the relationship intensifies.

Will Elspeth's ideas for Rupert's factory products be successful and will this cause him to admire her, or cause problems around Elspeth's perceptions of why he continues the relationship?

Will the young adults accept Rupert as their mum's partner or will they rebel, causing uneasiness and unhappiness? Does the young adults' reaction to the relationship bring the couple together?

When Elspeth's daughter begins to find romance she can understand her mum's feelings for Rupert, but will she be more understanding of their relationship?

3. The Rents, by Simon Butterworth

School is out, summer has officially started and the next thing on the list is the family summer holiday. At the age of sixteen, Jim is sure that this year's holiday is going to be the last one he goes on with his parents (The Rents). In his mind there was nothing they could do to stop him making this holiday one to remember - what were they going to do? Send him home?

Two weeks, summer sun, what's the worst that could happen?

Follow Jim on a summer holiday he is never going to forget.

4. The Rhythm Of Rhyme, by Steve Almy

TRAVEL THROUGH LAND, SEA, SPACE AND TIME WITH THIS COLLECTION OF RHYMES. BE A CAPTAIN OF A TALLSHIP OR A SPACESHIP FOR A DAY AND MEET SOME GREAT PEOPLE ALONG THE WAY.

5. Surf School, by Karan Vickers-Hulse

After his parents' divorce, Pip is forced to move out of his beloved London and down to the seaside town of Perren Cove with his mum. On his first day he makes friends with Harrie and Dylan, who he happily finds out go to his new school. However, he soon learns that not everybody wants to be his friend, as one particular boy takes pleasure in making Pip's life hard for him. Pip has plenty to keep him busy, though, and his new surfing hobby sees him spending more time with his friends... and his enemies.

As the summer drifts on, Pip settles in. But there's still one person that doesn't want him around.

Honourable Mention also goes to:

Samphire Coast, by Robert Greenfield

The Sea Cottage, by Joanna Challis

Christian and Layla, by Claire Merchant

A Year in Flip Flops, by Angela Elwood

Thinking of Santorini - Poems 1974-2015, by Andy Godfrey

Paradise, by Carol Ann Cole

St Barth Commuter, by Suzanne Morrell