If you’re in southern England at the moment or various other places in the world, you might be feeling the heat. It can be hard to escape the sun at the moment, but here’s where fiction can help. If you can’t get to an actual forest or wood, then reading a story set in one is the next best thing. Even better is taking your chosen forest-set novel and reading in the shade of the trees.

Here are eight novels that might help you feel a little cooler, including, ahem, my debut, Our Endless Numbered Days.

Click on any of these books to be taken to Bookshop.org in the UK to buy them.

And don’t forget to let me know which I’ve missed!

Happy reading!

Hunger and Thirst

My book tour for Hunger and Thirst has slowed somewhat, but you can still come and see me in few places over the summer and into the autumn. I’ll next be at The Little Green Bookshop in Herne Bay, Kent on Saturday 25th July. Hope to see you somewhere on my travels!