Pick up a Coffee and a Book

A good book can only be accompanied with a good coffee in a comfy chair, placed in a hidden corner. Coffee chain Costa brings us their shortlist of books perfect for reading with your favourite drink. With four very different books to discover the selection is a good start if you are looking for something different to read. From the colourful characters of Seabrook College in Skippy Dies (also long-listed in this years Booker Price), to consequences of  losing a child in Whatever You Love. Blasphemer, switches between eras portraying the difficulties of war in the last century. Similary, The Hand That First Held Mine, is a tale of two women, living 50 years apart in London linked together in a way they wouldn’t expect. Only one will win the award for Best Novel so who will it be?

Whatever You Love      by Louise Doughty	The Blasphemer         by Nigel Farndale	The Hand That First Held Mine      by Maggie O’Farrell	Skippy Dies by Paul Murray