Get into the good books

Our books editor Zoe West gives us her favourite picks for the month, plus Cathy Bramley shares her writing secrets

Best books… Steph McGovern The journalist and television ...

I don’t remember how I got into reading. Neither of my parents were big readers, and we didn’t have bookshelves at home – but I loved visiting the library. I could spend hours there, completely lost i

by Liz Fenwick (£9.99, PB, HarperCollins) Newlyn, Cornwall. Kerensa is sent by her father’s auction house to catalogue a ramshackle building overlooking the sea. What she discovers inside changes her

Here are our recommendations – and yours – of what to enjoy reading this fortnight

Illustrations by Chris Bentham Out 7 August (Atlantic Books, £16.99) This looks like another smash hit from the reliable Shteyngart, renowned author of Super Sad True Love Story and Our Country Friend