The Blagger’s Guide To…Greatest holiday reads ever ”Swallows and Amazons” by Arthur Ransome (Red Fox, £7.99) You’ll want to give this to your children as a window on a time when adventures came from swimming, fishing, camping and exploring rather than in an Xbox, but when you remember what John, Susan, Titty, Roger, Nancy and Peggy [...]
Read More...Great Weekend Reads This week: the story of a Frenchman’s epic journey from Paris to Pakistan by car, the latest from novelist Paul Auster about a neighborhood in Brooklyn, and Gunter Grass’ unusual new memoir/novel. Read more on The Daily Beast via Yahoo! News
Read More...Booksellers’ Picks: 15 Soaring Summer Reads Susan Stamberg gathers recommendations from booksellers Rona Brinlee, Lucia Silva and Daniel Goldin. Their selections for summertime reading include books about small-town America, a polygamist father in over his head, and a postmistress in New England during World War II. Read more on NPR
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