This month’s online issue of the British magazine Easy Living features Culture Editor Beatrice Hodgkin’s round-up of “brilliant summer books.” The list includes The Whole Wide Beauty, by Emily Woof, The Day the Falls Stood Still, by Cathy Marie Buchanan, Tell it to the Bees, by Fiona Shaw, The Vice Society, by James McCreet, Love Verb, by Jeams Green, Ties that Bind, by Catherine Deveney, April and Oliver, by Tess Callahan, and The Year of Fog. Thanks, Ms. Hodgkin!

The Year of Fog, Michelle Richmond (Orion, £6.99) Dive into this novel with trepidation, for its story is deeply harrowing; the protagonist loses the child of her fiancé in the thick fog of a beach in San Francisco and won’t give up the search to find her. A gripping, altogether visceral read.