Summer is a season filled with adventure, relaxation, and the chance to make lasting memories. Whether you're jetting off to a sunny beach, exploring a bustling city, heading into the countryside, or simply enjoying days out closer to home, every journey offers something new to discover.
Summer is a season filled with adventure, relaxation, and the chance to make lasting memories. Whether you're jetting off to a sunny beach, exploring a bustling city, heading into the countryside, or simply enjoying days out closer to home, every journey offers something new to discover. Travelling gives us the opportunity to experience different cultures, try new foods, meet new people, and see the world from a fresh perspective.
Wherever your summer takes you, reading can be the perfect travel companion. A good book can keep children entertained on long car journeys, flights, or train rides, while also encouraging imagination and creativity. It will also help you relax and forget about the real world waiting for you at home.
With this in mind, we have collected our must-reads for this holiday season.
Whether you're interested in a romantic getaway:
Whispers on the Wind by Carmen Von Nida
In 1960s Australia, Irma's world is forever changed when a chance meeting with Friedrich sets her on a journey of love, hope, and destiny.
Whispers on the Wind weaves a heartfelt tale of courage, resilience, and the power of following your heart against all odds. Inspired by true events, this moving romance tale captures the beauty of first love, the challenges of starting anew, and the timeless belief that love can conquer distance, doubt, and circumstance.
Set against the backdrop of the Blue Mountains and Bondi's golden shores, this unforgettable debut novel invites readers to be swept away by a story that lingers long after the last page.
Paris Wasn't Ready for Her by Brettney Thompson
Elton Lowell has always dreamed of proving herself in the fashion industry, but that does not come without obstacles. With an ex who’s always put her down, a boss who seems to have it out for her, and the fast-paced demands of the City of Lights, Elle is at risk of losing everything.
Interning at Mode Coeur Magazine is her golden opportunity—except there's a catch. Three strikes, and she’s out. As Elle nears her third strike, she must fight to prove her worth, or she’ll be sent home. If she gets fired, she’ll also lose the man she’s falling for, her friends she has made in Paris, as well as the new life she has created.
As Elle navigates the cyclone of expectations, romance, and self-doubt, she’ll have to decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to achieve success—and whether it's worth losing herself along the way.
If you like a side of danger with your holiday:
Murder at Seascape by Thomas Ehrlich
Dive into a gripping tale of intrigue and deception as the Vargas twins face financial disaster in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Watch Antonia and Adriana navigate a world of high stakes, betrayal, and moral dilemmas as they strive to protect their empire, Kennedy Investments. As their lives intertwine with the residents of Seascape, a luxurious retirement community, tensions mount, and secrets unravel. With cunning plans, hidden bribes, and unexpected alliances, the twins must outmaneuver their enemies and confront their own dark pasts. From the boardrooms of Boston to the quiet halls of Seascape, this captivating narrative explores themes of ambition, family, and the lengths people will go to survive.
Murders across the Pond by David Liston
On a night of planned festivity in Cheltenham, a businessman is killed behind a closed door. What appears to be suicide quickly leads to something much deeper and darker.
To the dead man’s wife, Penelope Johnson, the evening of celebration becomes a nightmare.
To her friend, Kylie Griggs, who has faced her own emotional troubles, she has to find the strength and ability to unravel these events.
How do they relate to a contract killing in the USA? What are the wider implications and how are they resolved?
Murders across the Pond unfolds into a terrifying fact – that a single murder can give up a secret that spans oceans.
If you like to read about the history of the locations you're visiting:
The Girls from Cienfuegos by Margarita Lopez
The Rodriguez Family lived a life of wealth and luxury until January 1959 when Fidel's boisterous and celebratory caravan traveled through Cuba declaring the success of his Revolution.
In the years to come life changed significantly, from the reframing of citizen rights to the rule of law. In fear for their daughters' futures, Alejandro and Sarita Rodriguez leave Cienfuegos against their extended family's wishes. In Cuba all who left were called gusanos and labelled betrayers of the Revolution. Once on US soil they are labelled yet again, this time as political refugees.
From their arrival in Miami, Florida to their eventual move to Denver, Colorado, this story weaves themes of displacement, family bonds, and the indominable human spirit. The Girls from Cienfuegos shows the survival of the family in which love and memory sustain them when everything else is stripped away.
An Odyssey in Time of War: Gaza, Donbas, and the Ghost of Thucydides by Ian R. Mitchell
From the ruins of classical Greece to the fault lines of the modern world, this book is a journey through landscapes shaped as much by ideas as by stone.
Moving from Athens and the Peloponnese to Magna Graecia and beyond, it weaves travel writing with history, archaeology, and political reflection. Ancient voices Thucydides, Herodotus, Aristarchus are set against contemporary conflicts, revealing unsettling continuities between past and present. Democracy and empire, power and hypocrisy, physis and nomos recur as enduring tensions.
Vivid descriptions of temples, mountains, and forgotten sites are paired with clear-eyed analysis of war, imperial ambition, and historical causation. Written with wit, skepticism, and moral urgency, this is not nostalgic classicism but engaged history: a reminder that the real causes of events often lie beneath their surface explanations, and that wisdom, too often, arrives only after the event.
Or if you are just looking for travel tips before jetting off:
The Book Of Travel Tips - Travel Safe, Travel Smart by Tessa Ingel
This unique book of creative travel tips will become your indispensable traveling companion. It's the result of years of independent travel to seventy-four countries, connecting with travelers across the globe, and sharing the unexpected challenges that may occur. From tips such as designing your trip to staying healthy while traveling, dealing with lost luggage, driving in foreign countries, finding reliable drivers and guides, coping with jet lag and so much more! Tessa Ingel writes enthusiastically, with firsthand experience, about everything that you may need while traveling abroad.
Baltic Capitals by Norman Handy
Baltic Capitals is the story of a fascinating trip around the shores of the Baltic, visiting both the current capitals that we are familiar with and some of the lesser-known former capitals with their castles, cathedrals and palaces.
It is a trip through various countries' cuisine, culture, architecture, geography and history including numerous invasions, regional conflicts, the part that they all played in their own development and the development of the region up to where it stands today.
Various themes turn up again and again as they interacted with each other and their response to world events and how they got to where they are in the world today.
Wherever it is you're heading this summer, make sure you have enough room in your hand luggage for plenty of books... or maybe invest in an eReader before you go!
From the ruins of classical Greece to the fault lines of the modern world, this book is a journey through landscapes shaped as much by ideas as by stone. Moving from Athens and the Peloponnese to Magna Graecia and beyond, it weaves travel writing with history, archaeology, and political reflection. Ancient voicesThucydides, Herodotus, Aristarchusare set against contemporary conflicts, revealing unsettling continuities between past and present. Democracy and empire, power and hypocrisy, physis and nomos recur as enduring tensions. Vivid descriptions of temples, mountains, and forgotten sites are paired with clear-eyed analysis of war, imperial ambition, and historical causation. Written with wit, skepticism, and moral urgency, this is not nostalgic classicism but engaged history: a reminder that the real causes of events often lie beneath their surface explanations, and that wisdom, too often, arrives only after the event.
In 1960s Australia, Irma's world is forever changed when a chance meeting with Friedrich sets her on a journey of love, hope, and destiny. Whispers on the Wind weaves a heartfelt tale of courage, resilience, and the power of following your heart against all odds. Inspired by true events, this moving romance tale captures the beauty of first love, the challenges of starting anew, and the timeless belief that love can conquer distance, doubt, and circumstance. Set against the backdrop of the Blue Mountains and Bondi's golden shores, this unforgettable debut novel invites readers to be swept away by a story that lingers long after the last page.
Elton Lowell has always dreamed of proving herself in the fashion industry, but that does not come without obstacles. With an ex who’s always put her down, a boss who seems to have it out for her, and the fast-paced demands of the City of Lights, Elle is at risk of losing everything.
On a night of planned festivity in Cheltenham, a businessman is killed behind a closed door. What appears to be suicide quickly leads to something much deeper and darker. To the dead man’s wife, Penelope Johnson, the evening of celebration becomes a nightmare.
From their arrival in Miami, Florida to their eventual move to Denver, Colorado, this story weaves themes of displacement, family bonds, and the indominable human spirit.
Dive into a gripping tale of intrigue and deception as the Vargas twins face financial disaster in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
Baltic Capitals is the story of a fascinating trip around the shores of the Baltic, visiting both the current capitals that we are familiar with and some of the lesser-known former capitals with their castles, cathedrals and palaces.
This unique book of creative travel tips will become your indispensable traveling companion. It's the result of years of independent travel to seventy-four countries, connecting with travelers across the globe, and sharing the unexpected challenges that may occur.
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