This month we take in fact and fiction, from the Caribbean to Long Island, across Europe and into glorious emotional singularity.

Shiny Happy Singles by Lucy Meggeson

Unmarried, childfree women are statistically the happiest demographic in society. So why does being single still come with such stigma? With one in five adults choosing to be childfree, Lucy Meggeson believes it’s time to level the playing field and ask the very important question: what the hell is going on?

Part investigation, part celebration, Shiny Happy Singles explores what it means to thrive as a single, childfree women in a world that insists happiness only comes in pairs.

It is a book that invites women everywhere to embrace their independence, let go of shame and live fabulously. You are not alone and you already have everything you need to shine.

Published by Bloomsbury on June 19^th

The Accidental Tour-ist by Ned Boulting

Picking up where his bestselling memoir left off 15 years ago, Ned Boulting’s love for the greatest cycling race on earth has deepened, his fascination has been sporadically rewarded, his fitness has slowly declined and his hairline has receded.

Bringing the story up to the present day, Ned reflects on how the sport has somehow shrugged off the ghosts of its tainted past to reinvent itself, in a book that takes us behind the scenes at races across Europe, the Middle East, to China, Malaysia and around Italy six or seven times with a deep dive into life on the road of the Giro d’Italia.

Published by Bloomsbury on June 19^th

Long Island by Colm Tóibín

Long Island is Colm Tóibín’s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever.

A Book of the Year everywhere from The Times to The New Yorker, The Economist to The Daily Telegraph, it is a love story for the ages torn apart by a stranger and a revelation that needs to be embraced or discarded, and quickly.

Published by Pan Macmillan on June 5^th

Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks by James D Charlet

More than 6,000 ships have met their doom in the waters along the North Carolina coast, weaving a rich history of tragedy, drama and heroics along these picturesque beaches.

Men have lost their lives and fortunes, and heroes have been made where the combination of mixing currents, treacherous coastline and shifting underwater sandbars spells disaster for even the most seasoned sailor.

These are the stories of daring rescues, tragic failures, enduring mysteries, buried treasure and fascinating legend.

Published by Rowman & Littlefield on June 7^th