Best summer reads 2015 - win £500 of books!

long light days giving me lots of opportunities to enjoy being outside, regardless of the weather

Long golden days and twilit evenings, filled with the scent of my climbing roses and honeysuckle.

Long sunlit days and twilit evenings, filled with the scent of my rambling roses and honeysuckle.

I love long, summer evenings where we can walk on the beach or bbq in the garden. So lovely to be able to spend quality time with family and friends.

The Buzz of the Bees is the sound of summer for me. What a brilliant prize

The buzz of the bees is the sound of summer for me
Great prize good luck all x

Cool seas, blue skies and spitting the pits out of watermelon..........Summertime

sitting in my garden reading in the sunshine

I love the long days and summer evenings x

We live next door to a school, the best thing about summer is the children are not there! I know this sounds grumpy but, a bit of peace and quiet is lovely!

My fave thing is the weather I love going for good long walks

Light mornings and evenings, birds and butterflies, a good book sat in the garden with a glass of fizz while the barbeque grills a selection of fish and meat, family gatherings not having to huddle up inside, GC playing outside inside of being glued to their iPhones/iPads or television, and of course glorious sunshine which radiates happy smiling faces all round!

I love to sit in the garden reading a book while listening to my grandchildrens laughter

I love picking the fruit and veg I've grown from the garden - the strawberries have been lovely this year!

My favourite thing about summer is that smudge of suntan lotion on the pages of my paperback!

My favourite thing about summer is that my 3 grandsons from America come to stay for 6 weeks - my house is turned upside down and chores go out of the window but we have great fun and read all the books I buy during the year for them... I buy all the great summer reads so as soon as they go home I can immerse myself in a good read and my collection of books often lasts me until Christmas!
We try not to leave England in the summer as this country has so much to offer from May to October and I hate to miss the beautiful stages of the garden through that time.

My favourite thing about summer is waking up to nice, light mornings.

Spending time with my daughters cat whilst she and my grandson jet to the other side of the world.Then hopefully a little time with them themselves when they get back and disappear back into their normal lives

A chance to swim in the sea with the grandchildren

The grey skies and the constant, incessant, persistent drizzle which makes a British summer unique in all of the world (universe?).

Summer - feeling the sun on my (well protected) skin, eating alfresco, taking a gift of a bouquet of roses from my garden to a friend, feeling smug after a session weeding and dead heading, enjoying a chilled glass if Sauvignon blanc while I enjoy the fruits of our labours in the garden. Saying " Life is good" every day.

Whoever compiled this list of summer reads is a genius…!! I have had my eyes on nearly all of the books.

I know summer has truly arrived when it’s warm enough to sit in the garden on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, hubby has disappeared to the village green to watch his local club play a bit of cricket, I’m sitting in the garden with a glass of Pimm’s in one hand reading a wonderful book - usually one recommended by Gransnet. Absolute bliss…!!

The long days,doors and windows open,ice-cream,strawberries with honey yoghurt,skirts instead of jeans,floaty summer tops.The best thing of all though is walking my lovely dog through the fields and stopping to watch butterflies and look at the trees and flowers.Its the simple things that make life so wonderful.

Long hours of daylight, summer fruits; peaches, nectarines, strawberries, raspberries, the list is almost endless......and of course the excuse to sit in the garden with a G&T, and/or glass of wine, or Pimm's. The procession of garden flowers with the bees collecting nectar.......and Wimbledon!!!

Chilling in the garden catching the sun