Do you feel like brushing up on politics? Trying a historical novel or some sci-fi? if you can’t choose from our summer book special, try our shortlist of absolute must reads
The Good Sister by Morgan Jones; Zero by Marc Elsberg; Careless Love by Peter Robinson; In the Dark by Cara Hunter; Day of the Dead by Nicci French; Cold Desert Sky by Rod Reynolds
This Is What Happened by Mick Herron, The Blood Road by Stuart MacBride, The Quaker by Liam McIlvanney, The Poison Bed by EC Fremantle and A Shot in the Dark by Lynne Truss
The Rending and the Nest by Kaethe Schwehn, The Book of M by Peng Shepherd, Pandemic by AG Riddle, The Synapse Sequence by Daniel Godfrey, Awakened by James S Murray and Darren Wearmouth
The President Is Missing is jointly ascribed to both the ex-president and the bestseller – but computer analysis suggests the prose was less than equally divided
A former US president co-writing a thriller about a US president taking on cybergeddon was so promising – but learning that the White House has a bowling alley is about as exciting as it gets