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Great Reads - June 2024

by BTM

Mon, 03 June 2024

Great Reads - June 2024

What can be better than relaxing with a good book?
Bahrain This Month brings you the latest releases to satisfy your fiction fix.

One Perfect Couple
Ruth Ware

Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she’s pretty sure they won’t extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren’t going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, she decides to try out with him. A whirlwind audition process later, Lyla find herself whisked off to a tropical paradise, boating through the Indian Ocean towards Ever After Island, where the two of them will compete against four other couples in order to win a cash prize.

But not long after they arrive on the deserted island, things start to go wrong. After the first challenge leaves everyone rattled and angry, an overnight storm takes matters from bad to worse. Cut off from the mainland by miles of ocean, deprived of their phones, and unable to contact the crew that brought them there, the group must band together for survival. As tensions run high and fresh water runs low, Lyla finds that this game show is all too real – and the stakes are life or death.

The Situation Room
George Stephanopoulos

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor of This Week and co-anchor of Good Morning America, recounts the crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their highest-pressure decisions; the White House Situation Room. No room better defines American power and its role in the world. And yet, none is more shrouded in secrecy and mystery. Created under President Kennedy, the Sit Room has been the epicentre of crisis management for presidents for more than six decades. Detailing close calls made and disasters narrowly averted, this book will take readers through dramatic turning points in a dozen presidential administrations.

Five Broken Blades
Mai Corland

The king of Yusan must die. The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single objective: to kill the God King Joon. He has it coming. Under his merciless immortal hand, the nobles flourish, while the poor and innocent are imprisoned, ruined … or sold.
And now each of the five blades will come for him. Each has tasted bitterness – from the hired hitman seeking atonement, a lovely assassin who seeks freedom, or even the prince banished for his cruel crimes. None can resist the sweet, icy lure of vengeance.

They can agree on murder. They can agree on treachery. But for these five killers – each versed in deception, lies and betrayal – it’s not enough to forge an alliance. To survive, they’ll have to find a way to trust each other … but only one can take the crown. Let the best liar win.

Lies and Weddings
Kevin Kwan

Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel, has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted by decades of profligate spending, and behind all the magazine covers, Instagram stories, manors and yachts lies nothing more than a gargantuan mountain of debt. The only solution, put forth by Rufus’s scheming mother, is for Rufus to attend his sister’s wedding at a luxury eco-resort, a veritable who’s-who of sultans, barons and oligarchs, and seduce a woman with money.

#BOOKS #MUST READ #BTM JUNE 2024