THE HAUTE BEACH READS

Candy-coloured covers, high imagination and exquisite writing… oh, and the occasional sex scene: 2022’s beach reads are anything but pulpy. Taylor ‘Malibu Rising’ Jenkins Reid continues her bid for world domination with Carrie Soto is Back, a novel about a former tennis ace determined to show an upstart youngster she’s still the boss (30 August, 16.99; Cornerstone). Voice-of-Gen-Z Florence Given’s first novel, Girlcrush (tagline: ‘A hot, dark story’), is a thrilling, bisexual romcom that doubles as a smart skewering of social media (9 August, £16.99; Octopus). Lastly, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow follows Sadie and Sam, who met in a hospital gaming room as children and reunite by chance as adults — going on to fame, superstardom and (inevitable) tragedy. You’ll be sobbing behind your Celine sunnies.

(14 July, 16.99; Chatto & Windus)