As the summer holidays approach, it’s the perfect time to think about what you fancy reading from your sun lounger. Fortunately, the Socially Shared Online Bookshop is bursting at the seams with fictional titles!
The Socially Shared team have chosen the books they’ll be adding to their packing list this summer. Here are their recommendations.
The Pear Tree (Book 2) by Celia Tandy
What if you meet the right person at the wrong time?
Adam and Mordros spend one idyllic summer together in Cornwall. But at the end of the summer, Adam leaves and breaks his promise to stay in touch.
Fifteen years later, Mordros still doesn’t know why she lost the love of her life.
But life goes on, and now she’s in Broadsham organising her aunt’s 70th birthday party. The last thing she expects is to bump into Adam again.
He’s a lawyer now and involved in the village campaign to save the 250-year-old Broadsham pear tree from developers. When Mordros joins the protest, the pear tree’s future suddenly becomes just as important as their own.
But can they face up to their past and the reason Adam left?
Because maybe now is the right time to fall in love.
Set in Cornwall and Broadsham, a fictional village in the beautiful Cotswolds.
Read as a standalone or as book 2 of the Broadsham Romance series. Catch up with Matt, Rosie, Mrs B and some of the other loved characters in the first book, The Broken Pieces of Us.
Buy your copy HERE.
Floating Solo by Shelley Wilson
Budding entrepreneur Kat Sinclair wants to grow her quirky solo narrowboat holiday enterprise but faces rejection at every turn. Until a Hollywood film crew gets in touch with the potential to change her business, dreams, and love life forever.
Finalist in the Debut Romantic Novel Award 2025 with the Romance Novelists’ Association.
“Funny, sweet and deliciously romantic. An absolute gem of a book. Romance tied up in a narrowboat package.” Susan Buchanan
Buy your copy HERE.
Be Less Dragonfly (Book 4) by Suzanne Lissaman
The latest novel from Romance Novelists’ Association Award-Winning Author, Suzanne Lissaman
After 30-year-old Freya’s husband dies unexpectedly, she heads to the North Devon Coast to start a new life running a bookshop. But when jilted teacher Matt turns up on her doorstep looking for a room for the summer, their lives become much more complicated. Can Freya and Matt learn to trust again?
Meanwhile, Lucy, her fiancé Mark and his mother, 70-something thrill-seeker Nancy, face some challenges when a mysterious map turns up, and a stranger arrives in town.
Be Less Dragonfly is the fourth book in award-winning author Suzanne Lissaman’s rom com series, the Dashford Comedies.
Buy your copy HERE.
Daughter of the Drowned (Book 1 of The Darkness Duet) by Kerry Williams
A broken young woman will stop at nothing to discover why she’s being haunted, even if that means storming the Underworld to face off with Death himself.
Twenty-one-year-old Lovely Timms hasn’t always been afflicted with otherworldly visions; in fact, it’s only these last four years that have been a haze of addiction and denial since she drowned.
Only when she’s visited by an apparition of her father does she finally begin to believe her hauntings are real. Desperate to discover why she is plagued by the dead, she travels to the occult-filled city of New Orleans with childhood best friend, Tino, by her side. Though, as her abilities grow, so does the icy herald of Death.
Death with a face, a name, and a delicious voice with which to beckon her.
Death calls to Lovely, will he get to keep her?
Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and V.E Schwab, those who like their romantic fantasy with a side of gore, childhood friends to lovers, Death as a love interest, and their romance with more steam and less spice.
Buy your copy HERE.
Coventry to Hollywood (and back!) by Marie Rowe
When Marie Rowe left her hometown of Coventry, England, known for the legend of Lady Godiva, and Hitler’s destruction of its ancient cathedral, little did she know where her life would lead. She didn’t think for a minute that she would end up in California working with the crème de la crème of Hollywood talent.
It was certainly a circuitous path, as life journeys often are, but with her attitude of openness and trust, Marie fully embraced every experience, leading to an inspirational wealth of knowledge and inner growth, which she shares in this book.
Marie’s story is not only intriguing and captivating, but also uplifting and motivating. She encourages us all to live with faith not fear, and to be proud of who we are and what we’re capable of achieving.
Marie’s motto in life: “Security for me, is not knowing what’s around the corner.”
Buy your copy HERE.
Meet the Author Booksale and Tearoom
Join us for a meeting of local female authors from our business network and the wider region who showcase their books in the Socially Shared Online Bookshop. There will be an array of fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks, and children’s books for people to browse, buy, and get signed by the authors themselves.
Our Meet the Author Booksale and Tearoom brings together authors, readers, and local people for a social shopping extravaganza.
Date: Saturday 18th October 11am – 3pm
Venue: St Francis of Assisi Church Hall, Warwick Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Register for your FREE ticket here: https://sociallyshared.co.uk/events/#!event/2025/10/18/socially-shared-meet-the-author-booksale-and-tearoom
There is free parking and a range of refreshments available for a small charge (all proceeds to charity).
Are you a female author in the Midlands or surrounding areas?
Raise your author profile and meet like-minded creatives in the Socially Shared community. Submit your book for FREE entry on our Online Bookshop, and get in touch if you are interested in booking an exhibition stand at our main event. Contact Shelley at books@sociallyshared.co.uk
