The 50 best summer reads

From gripping thrillers to landmark biographies, Sophie Morris selects the season’s hottest holiday literature

Saturday, 19 June 2010


This week’s panel:

Rebecca Armstrong, the deputy features editor of ‘The Independent’;
Selina Hastings, biographer and author ‘The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham’ (John Murray) is out soon in paperback; Children’s author Ali Sparkes, ‘Wishful Thinking (OUP);Siôn Hamilton, manager of Foyles Charing Cross Road;
Brett Wolstencroft, manager of Daunt Books in Marylebone

Reader email: 50best@independent.co.uk

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