Fiction Pick If you are after a book to pack on your next holiday , look no further. Here is a novel which will go down as easily as a chilled poolside drink. The book is narrated by a menopausal Rocky on her family’s annual summer trip to Cape Cod.

Sandwiched between her nearly-adult children and ageing parents, all of whom have descended on the coastal apartment for the week, her whole life feels as though it is in flux. Sandwich has such poignant things to say about family, marriage and parenting, while also casting a gorgeous light on those golden holiday days (even if you do spend most of the trip dragging sand around or looking for parking). A hilarious tonic of a book.

(Doubleday, £16.99) Nonfiction pick In the summer of 1947, millions of lives were affected by the Partition of India . Among them were the grandparents of BBC presenter Mishal Husain, who has turned to letters, diaries and tapes in order to piece together fragments of her family history.

On her father’s side were Mumtaz, a Muslim doctor, and Mary, a Catholic from an Anglo-Indian family, who fell in love in Lahore. Her maternal grandparents, Tahirah and Shahid, meanwhile, watched the events leading up to Partition unfold from Delhi. Broken Threads is a triumph of a book: at once a moving family memoir and a clear-eyed interrogation into the legacy of empire.

(4th Estate, £18.99) Best of the rest In the latest experimental novel from the acclaimed, Booker-nominated author of the Outline trilogy, a qu.