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Liar's Beach
Dec 2, 2025 1:18 AM

Author:Katie Cotugno

Liar's Beach

'Fast-paced and will have you hooked. You’re in for a killer summer.' Metro

WE WERE LIARS meets GOSSIP GIRL - this YA thriller with a splash of dark academia is full of secrets, lies, privileged teens and beach parties. The perfect summer read.

A body in the pool. A friend who might be an enemy. A vacation they'll never forget . . .

Linden has always felt like an outsider and spending the summer at his best friend's vacation house, surrounded by money and privilege is doing nothing to lessen his imposter syndrome. But he soon has bigger concerns than fitting in - there's a body in the pool and everyone's a suspect - including him.

Readers LOVE Liar's Beach:

An addictive addition to the thriller genre

If you're looking for a quick, engrossing YA thriller, look no further than Liar's Beach. Fingers crossed for more!

A wonderful and beautifully written YA book, in the modern One of Us Is Lying vein. I really loved this book

An entertaining read throughout and a fun one to fly through in one sitting

Reviews

Wildly and fantastically funny . . . A remarkable and brilliantly imagined novel, vital and inventive

—— TLS

Praise for Conn Iggulden

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Iggulden tells an absolutely cracking story...the pace is nail-biting and the set dressing magnificent

—— The Times

One of our finest historical novelists

—— Daily Express

Iggulden is in a class of his own when it comes to epic, historical fiction

—— Daily Mirror

Pacy...and packed with action

—— Sunday Times

Breathes new life into the darkest and most dramatic of times

—— Star

Compelling reading

—— Woman and Home

Brilliant... A book alive with understated yearning

—— Literary Review

[An] enigmatic novel . . . Deborah Levy's writing is rather like Philip Glass's music . . . mesmerising . . . enigmatic . . . refreshingly original

—— Amber Medland , Daily Telegraph

[A] wistful, fabular new novel . . . Since the 1990s, Deborah Levy's novels have combined a gauzy, episodic quality with pinpoint sensual detail drawn from peripatetic lives, crossing fluently between languages and national borders. Her style is full of gaps and sharp edges, circling around questions of gender and power, inheritance, autonomy and lack . . . The narrative here has a fittingly musical quality, running forward in spurts, pausing, repeating key phrases

—— Olivia Laing , Observer

Beautifully atmospheric . . . a dazzling portrait of melancholy and renewal . . . Levy is a master novelist and in August Blue, a beguiling story of how identities collide and crack, she shows us what it feels like to be a divided self

—— Independent ‘Best Books of 2023’

Deborah Levy delves into the deepest patterns of family connection and self-invention in August Blue, the riddling, elegant tale of a globe-trotting concert pianist whose subconscious is catching up with her

—— Guardian, 'Best Books of 2023'

Deborah Levy's hazy, dreamlike novels, often set in sun-drenched Mediterranean backdrops, are an essential accompaniment to any summer holiday . . . a lyrical, surreal trip of self discovery - one that is full of Levy's wit and curious images

—— Leila Slimani , i

A meditation on artistic creativity that is sensual, enigmatic and strangely addictive

—— Financial Times 'What to Read this Summer'

Levy is no stranger to the uncanny. Her novels teem with oddness, with dreamlike, vertiginous scenes

—— Lara Pawson , Times Literary Supplement

Levy's elegantly ludic investigation into selfhood, mother love and meaning

—— Guardian, '2023 Summer Reads'

Levy fans will delight in August Blue’s heady exploration of female creativity

—— Financial Times, 'Best Books of 2023'
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