There are two weeks left to order up those long unread classics before the summer holidays begin. We find out what the great and the good – from Margaret Drabble and Michael Holroyd to the Miliband brothers – will be taking with them and we throw in some suggestions from our readers too.
We also ask Scott Turow, inventor of the legal thriller, why it took him 23 years to write the sequel to Presumed Innocent. And in a frank and unflinching interview with Tim Parks, we learn how difficult it is to sit still in the modern world, and how important it is for our health and sanity that we learn to do so.
Reading list
Innocent, by Scott Turow (Mantle)
Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing, by Tim Parks (Harvill Secker)
