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From love to horror - books for sunny days and stormy nights
Sunderland Echo
|July 18, 2025
Home or away? We're going on a summer holiday. What book to pack with the suntan lotion - that is the question?
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Summer reads do not have to be something that goes with sunshine, sea, sand and romance. They can also be titles suited to dark and stormy nights.
Here is our pick of various genres:
The Passengers on the Hankyu Line by Hiro Arikawa
The bestselling author of The Travelling Cat Chronicles tells the stories of five melancholy train passengers and how their problems get resolved in a gentle and affecting novel.
An Almost Perfect Summer by Jill Mansell
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