With three long weeks before MPs have to return to Westminster, what better time to relax with a good book?
As is the tradition at this time of year, the Tory MP Keith Simpson has already published his Christmas reading list.
The Liberal Democrats have followed suit with a round-up of what key party figures will be dipping into over the holidays – but it's not exhaustive. Vince Cable told me he would also be trying to finish A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth, which he started last year but never got round to finishing. It's beautifully written, he tells me.
Phil Woolas is reading John Galbraith's The Great Crash, 1929.
As you would expect, my esteemed colleague Michael White, although not elected, is juggling several tomes at once. One is The Ascent of Money, by Professor Niall Ferguson, and the other is The Rivalry, by Bill Russell, on the relationship between China, India and Japan – not dissimilar to that between Britain, France and Germany, he says.
What will you be reading this Christmas?
