What books are you taking on holiday?

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Choosing holiday reading is the best part of going away. So go on, humour me.

I’ve packed:

Red Sauce, Brown Sauce ( British breakfast oddessy)- Felicity Cloake
You Be Mother- Meg Mason
Brother of the More Famous Jack- Barbara Trapido
Lonely Planet Guide: Languedoc and Rousillon

And that’s just to read in the Eurotunnel queue 😆

I could do with another couple of books, so any recommendations appreciated. I like modern fiction, funny books, anything about food and am an ardent Francophile.

Three Milly Johnson books......she is my current favourite. 10 nights in ibiza, probably won't need all 3 tbf but just in case.

Daisy May Coopers autobiography and Graham Nortons. And This is your mind on plants by Michael Pollen.

All I have decided on so far is To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini. That's probably enough as it's over 800 pages long. DP said it might sink the ferry😂

If you like food writing I'd recommend Jay Rayner. The Man who ate the world' is a great book and "Last Supper' is also very good. Both well written and funny.

Grace Dent's autobiography 'Hungry' is also good.

Driving over lemons - not France, Spain - but it's light and funny.

Ah, I’ve read The Grace Dent one but baby read that Jay Rayner book ( although I love his restaurant reviews).
I read Driving Over Lemons years ago but that recommendation has inspired me to download the audio book.

I've got Lessons in Chemistry and the new Lisa Jewell book.

If you like crime//thriller novels, please let me recommend Joel Dicker (all three published in English to date are good but The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair has sold best); and Chris Hammer who has a trilogy about an Australian journalist. These are all long solid meaty reads, so should get you through the queues at Dover.

I've just come back from Greece and apart from the Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel which I've had on my Kindle for ages I also read Out of Her Depth by Lizzy Barber and The Beloved Girls by Harriet Evans, both of which I picked up at the airport and which were easy holiday reads.

Think it’s a choice between The Mad Women’s Ball and The Reader on the 6.27 (originally a French novel)

Brother of the More Famous Jack is wonderful. I’ve read it lots of times, you’re in for a real treat. I’m just coming to the end of my holiday and slightly regretting my bleak choices: Remains of the Day, The Nickel Boys, Snuggie Bain and Passing. All v good but grim.

If you like Barbara Trapido then I recommend Clare Chambers - not the most recent one though. Also The Cazalet Chronicles are very readable.

Currently in Greece and have:

The Herd Emily Edwards (about vaccines/anti vaccine) fiction, easy read

The Maidens Alex Michaelides (Cambridge uni murder) fiction

Was going to bring Ariandne Jennifer Saint and Three daughters of Eve Elif Shafak too but left them behind !

I’m on holiday and reading the society for soulless girls by Laura Steven, great so far.

Anthony Horowitz Moonflower Murders, the follow up to Magpie Murders which I enjoyed watching on tv. David Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count, Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey, and Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes, a reassessment of what we know about Neanderthals.

I read a couple of brilliant books on hols - The anatomy of wings, Karen Foxlee, at first you think , what is this? But it just gets better (and sadder) as it goes, a teenage girl raped by her much older boyfriend and her downward spiral until she commits suicide as told by her sister who has lost her ability to sing. After the Fire by Will Hill, about a girl in a religious cult, Wako type scenario. Last hols I read The Handmaids tale and the second book (can't remember the title) so these had a lot to live up to!

I've just read Seven Sisters by by Lucinda Riley and How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie...oh and The Club by Ellery Lloyd.

A bit more low brow that some suggestions here but good holiday reads.

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Just back from holiday but for next free time am going to read The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley