The Bookends Beach Party is Back!

That’s right – by popular demand, the Bookends beach party is back!

Over July and August we’ll be bringing you a whole host of exclusive content and summer reading round ups featuring pieces from your favourite authors.

Kicking things off we’ve got three wonderful authors talking us through their beach bag must-haves for 2018…

Annabelle Thorpe, author of What Lies Within

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng – I’ve just read Little Fires Everywhere and thought it was absolutely brilliant, so I’m reading her books in reverse order. I’ll also throw in The Pool and An Ocean of Minutes.  Pens and paper for scribbling down writing thoughts, headphones for summery playlists and spare sunglasses – I’m endlessly sitting on them/losing them/leaving them in a bar.

Joanna Bolouri, author of Relight My Fire

The first things in my beach bag will be sunscreen. As the daughter of a redhead, I’ve inherited the power of burning spectacularly within six minutes of being in the sunshine. I use factor fifty but it doesn’t work.  I’ll also have my phone, at least two paperbacks and some chewing gum so I can be minty fresh while I get sunstroke.

Rosanna Ley, author of Her Mother’s Secret

I plan to be catching up on reading as usual. In my TBR pile and very likely to be in the beach bag are What Lies Within by Annabelle Thorpe and Believe Me by JP Delaney. Apart from the usual suspects of suncream, beach towel and a bottle of something cold and zingy, I will also (always) have my notebook and pen.

If you enjoyed this sneak peek, follow the summer fun, keep an eye out for some amazing competitions, and don’t miss our big finale at the Rooftop Book Club in August, featuring Kathryn Hughes, Rosanna Ley, Katie Marsh and Andy Jones (snap up your tickets now: http://bit.ly/2LZNJb7)