If you’re on the hunt for a good read that you can get stuck into on your next mini break then we’ve got you covered, as Stylist has teamed up with The Zoe Ball Book Club (part of the Sunday edition of her weekend show Zoe Ball on Saturday and Zoe Ball on Sunday) in a bid to track down the best books of summer 2018.

Speaking about the project, Ball says: “I adore reading so I’m beyond thrilled to have the opportunity to bring a book club back to TV. I’m so excited to read all the brilliant titles on our list, and can’t wait to chat about each and every one of them with my wonderful guests and hear what viewers across the country think too – we’ll have a wide range of books that should hopefully encourage everyone to try something new! Thanks to our esteemed panel we can be sure they are splendid reads.”

The reading picks, chosen by Amanda Ross, the guru behind the original Richard & Judy Book Club, and a crack team of book experts, are seriously diverse – and the third one on the list has proven to be a proper page-turner.

Written by Ruth Jones, Never Greener is a thrilling novel about the complexity of life and relationships.

Here’s what Stylist’s resident bookworm, Francesca Brown, had to say about it:

“Since 2012’s Gone Girl, there’s been a spate of thrillers and domestic noirs that have relied on bad things happening to bad people. In all honesty, it’s quite hard-going. While we’re totally down with anti-heroes, reading about them repeatedly can become wearing. Which is why Ruth Jones’ debut novel about love and other disasters is such a breath of fresh air. Her characters are terrible, they hurt people around them, they’re selfish and self-absorbed but they’re also utterly human or to put it another way: fallible.

“In 1985, Callum is a good man. He’s got two sons and another child on the way with a wife he adores when 22-year-old Kate walks into his brother’s pub and all his moral fibre is destroyed in one fail swoop.

Why Never Greener is the perfect read for your next mini break