As funny and perfectly plotted as all Kinsella's books, but with an out-of-season coastal town setting that adds a bittersweet quality to this tale of young people's anxiety and, eventually, huge love. Kinsella is justly lauded for her comedyâif she was a man, she'd have won the Wodehouse prize by nowâbut she also brings a wistfulness to her characters, and a sharp awareness of contemporary concerns, from consumerism to workplace etiquette to social media.
Iron Flame, the second book in the Empyrean Series set in the centuries-old Basgiath War College, landed in November, and a lot of people are very excited about it. Yarros is the true inheritor of Harry Potter and inspires Hunger Games levels of devotion, with extra dragons and sex. This is the only book in the last few years that has genuinely justified bookshop midnight openings, so you should probably get up to date now.
This controversial but addictive and extremely funny American romance mixes race and, in rather more incendiary terms, politics, and will find you rooting for both its gen Z high-flyers, despite yourself. As is a common occurrence these days, particularly for books by new female authors, a social media storm has erupted, in this case over whether you can use racial inequality as an obstacle to a good romance.
It's Jilly, and it has Rupert in it, and some horses. Jilly Cooper is a fundamental part of what it is to be British: witty,
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