10 cosy books to get lost in on rainy days

Lift your mood on those cold and miserable days with these 10 cosy books to get lost in on rainy days, from feel good novels to gripping and heart pounding crime thrillers.

1. The she was gone

From the acclaimed author of I Found You and the Richard & Judy bestseller, The Girls, comes a compulsively twisty psychological thriller that will keep you gripped to the very last page.

She was fifteen, her mother’s golden girl.
She had her whole life ahead of her.
And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone.

2. No Longer Last on the List

‘No Longer Last on the List’ is a self growth guide for tired, busy women; helping them eliminate doubt, set boundaries and prioritise their own importance, without guilt!

The book is written in a way that is simple to read and easy to absorb, and includes many different though-provoking activities designed to encourage self development and make small changes that drive huge impact.

3. The Thursday Murder Club

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case.

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it’s too late?

4. Double Booked

Realising she might like girls as well as boys, Georgina – and her schedule – are in chaos. Torn between the safety of her old life, and the freedom of a new one, she does what any rational person would do. She splits herself in two. After all, two lives are twice the fun… right?

5. Felix Unbound

When feisty Tiffany loses her temper with boyfriend Anthony, and accidentally topples a set of inherited Egyptian figurines, ancient forces take their mischievous revenge…and grant her careless wish that men
were more like her tabby cat, Felix.

It’s fun at first, as Tiffany and Felix gleefully launch him into her social circle, but it soon becomes clear that charismatic Felix spells trouble. As he wins lightning fast success as a talented artist, Tiffany and her friends’ relationships begin to flex and recalibrate – not always for the better.

6. East German Spy Mistress

It is 1955. An East German agent – a disillusioned man who hates pretty girls – is sent to spy on a nonexistent missile test in Cyrenaica. It is intended that he be caught. Ulrica, his boss, is busy smuggling stolen paintings and coins to the West in readiness to defect.

A group of British Army and R.A.F. officers, aware of communist traitors in the Civil Service, devise a deception to draw them from their lairs.
Every subterfuge miscarries. Ingenuity counts for nothing. No one foresees the outcome, yet everyone ends up with more or less the slice of cake they deserve.

7. Countdown to a Killing

London, Sicily, Huddersfield 2016–2017: Wen Li is a deeply kind and sensitive twentynine-old British-Chinese woman who suffers from severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which manifests itself in an incessant, overwhelming fear that she might have murderous impulses. Unlucky in love and emotionally scarred, Wen falls for colleague, Lomax Clipper, a tremendously frustrated and delusional Englishman.

He’s in love with a Sicilian young woman he met while working in Italy, but he and Wen do share a mutual loathing of their boss, Julian Ponsonby. Julian’s struggling too – with a toxic relationship and his father’s refusal to accept his sexuality. On his return to Sicily, via a sabbatical, Lomax befriends Fifi de Angelis, a vulnerable Sicilian man with restricted growth who has been ostracised by his family

8. The School of Life: Quotes to Live By

From The School of Life comes a selection of its most enlightening, psychologically acute quotes, artfully curated in its latest hardback release, Quotes to Live By.

Organised around The School of Life’s key themes – relationships, regret, anxiety, work, friends, family, travel and, not least, the meaning of life – Quotes to Live By is beautifully designed, with quirky and witty illustrations by Avi Ofer.

9. Move by Sarah Aspinall

This is the handbook for women in their 30s, 40s and beyond, to give you the tools to succeed in getting the fit, healthy, energised body you’ve always wanted.

You may have tried lots of different things to get the fitter, stronger and more toned body you’ve always wanted, but something has always gotten in the way. And if you’re honest, exercise is just not something you enjoy doing! But you still want to make the changes to get that stronger body you have always dreamed of getting.

You have the power to make the necessary change to create a habit of exercise to future-proof and improve the wonderful body you have, in order to live a long, happy, and healthy life.

10. The Binding Room

In this room, no one can hear you scream…

The Serial Crimes Unit are called in to investigate when a local pastor is found stabbed to death. As DI Henley assesses the crime scene, she discovers a hidden door that conceals a room set up for torture – and bound to the bed in the middle of the room is the body of a man.

When another body is found, also tied down, Henley realises there’s someone out there torturing innocent people and leaving them for dead. But why?

There’s nothing that connects the victims. They didn’t know each other. Their paths never crossed. But someone has targeted them, and it’s up to Henley and the SCU to stop them before they find another binding room…