ANYONE FOR TENNIS?
■ If you are feeling inspired by Wimbledon, host your own Grand Slam in the beautiful gardens of Broomhill Manor, one of Cornwall’s most attractive Georgian manor houses, made up of 17 cottages and one apartment.
Featuring an outdoor hard court and plenty of tennis equipment, the property is also just a short walk from a choice of sandy beaches.
Plus, there are heated indoor and outdoor pools, stables and a child’s soft play barn.
A week’s break for six in Broomhill’s Heron Cottage arriving September 4, costs £1,450 and a three-night weekend break in Kittiwake for six arriving September 25, costs £683.
For more details or to book, visit premiercottages.co.uk, or call 01288 352940.
Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington, right, is to play Henry V at London’s newly renovated Donmar Warehouse next year.
Kit says: “Henry V is the part I’ve always dreamed of playing. It is a role that is fascinating for our times in its study of a complex and controversial leader.”
The Shakespeare production, directed by Max Webster, will run from next February.
Booking details available from donmarwarehouse.com
Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/ Black Widow and
WHETHER you’re planning a staycation or holiday abroad (restrictions allowing), long, relaxed summer days require a good book.
Maybe you want a fun beach read, a fast-paced thriller, the latest big name author release or a hotlytipped debut – whatever your style, there are plenty of great reads to pick up this summer.
Yes, this is that Stacey Abrams – the American politician and voting rights activist who was nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.
Her side hustle is high-pace thrillers that you can’t put down, drawing upon Abrams’ background in law and politics.
While Justice Sleeps follows a young and charismatic law clerk called Avery. When the judge she works for falls into a coma, Avery is surprised to receive power of attorney over his life – and soon becomes embroiled in secrets and lies that might go all the way to the top.
If you like your pacy thrillers to have a legal spin, this is the book for you. her new book, you can expect another tense, suspenseful and wholly surprising thriller.
Yes, it’s grisly, but it’s the perfect beach read: you won’t be able to put it down.
Three women are united by a brutal murder. With twists at every turn, it’s a race to find out who was at the wrong place at the wrong time – and who is willing to kill. receives a letter telling her to leave immediately – and what unfolds has echoes of the movie Get Out.
This is a slight but blistering debut from Natasha Brown.
As an unnamed black British woman prepares to go to a fancy garden party at the countryside estate of her boyfriend’s family, she starts thinking about how her life has come together. She’s on the seemingly ‘perfect’ path – but she might not be content with this.
Through sparse prose, Brown explores themes of race, class and freedom in a way that will stay with you long after you finish the book. yourself in a good or 12 – this
Escape the 21st century entirely and experience what happened after the fall of Troy.
The follow up to Pat Barker’s incredible The Silence Of The Girls, The Women Of Troy imagines the Greeks, laden down with the spoils of their victory, yet unable to sail onwards because the gods are displeased; the last god of Troy remains unburied.
Expect nuance, unbelievably absorbing storytelling and a legendary myth retold smartly and sensitively.
For a read that weepiness via laughs as well as tenderness and anguish, Sorrow And Bliss is a must.
Martha is almost 40 and her life appears to be imploding. She just feels so sad.
Even sadder now her husband Patrick has decided to bail on her.
Forced to return home to her madcap family, she’s faced with the need to unravel her mind, her past and work out what comes next.
A witty, darkly entertaining debut you’ll race through, whether you’re stretched out on a deckchair or not. will induce
BESTSELLERS
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Megamonster, David Walliams Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman BOX 88, Charles Cumming Why the Germans Do It Better, John Kampfner The Midnight Library, Matt Haig They Both Die at the End, Adam am Silvera Troubled Blood, Robert Galbraith 9. Hamnet, Maggie O’farrell 10. The Song of Achilles,
Madeline Miller 6. 7. 8.