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Beach books at the ready: authors pick their essential summer reads
Andrew O’Hagan Booker prize-nominated author of Caledonian Road and Mayflies I always hope summer might break the rhythm of the news, replenishing the imagination with new elements. So I want to sit against a tree reading poetry, and I’m already deep into …