Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

This is a good fun read about a circus. It is currently being made into a film starring Robert Pattinson (the vampire from Twilight) and Reese Witherspoon. I really enjoyed this book although it isn't particularly challenging and the plot isn't hugely exciting. It is just quite fun reading about life on a circus, which is fairly tough. The main character is a likeable vet who, following a bereavement, joins a travelling circus. He learns about circus life and in the process gets entangled in a love triangle. It is not a particularly girly book and is a tiny bit gruesome in places but overall this would be a good beach read.