As we take time to pause in the summer months we look forward to carefully selecting the books which will join us. From Hannah embarking on Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety at 880 pages to Ruth completing her current Max Porter exploration with The Death of Francis Bacon at a mere 80 pages, the Akoya summer reading is as wide and varied as the books we publish. Here are just some of the books we will be enjoying.

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori  (Granta)

Fire Exit by Morgan Talty (And Other Stories)

On the Greenwich Line by Shady Lewis, translated by Katharine Halls (Peirene)

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (4th Estate)

The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter (Faber)

The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne (Grove Press UK)

And Notre Dame is Burning by Miriam Robinson (Corsair)

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate)

Cooking in the Wrong Century by Teresa Präauer, translated by Eleanor Updegraff (Pushkin Press)