The best books to read for summer 2021
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The Times
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🗓️ 25 June 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
From Nobel-winning greats and pacey thrillers to memoirs and historical novels, Times Radio's Stig Abell returns to the podcast for our guide to the best reads for the beach.
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Books recommended in this episode:
Non-fiction:
1) The Sleeping Beauties And Other Stories of Mystery Illness by Suzanne O'Sullivan (hardback / audiobook)
2) One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown (hardback / paperback / audiobook)
3) Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West by Catherine Belton (hardback / paperback / audiobook)
Fiction:
1) Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (hardback / audiobook)
2) Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason (hardback / audiobook)
3) The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (hardback)
Guests:
-Robbie Millen, literary editor of The Times.
-Andrew Holgate, literary editor of The Sunday Times.
Host: Stig Abell.
Clips: Baillie Gifford podcast; Suzanne O'Sullivan reading her own book on Audible; Meg Mason reading her own book at a Book People virtual event; Klara and the Sun from Faber on SoundCloud.
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| 1:31.2 | It's summer time and even though many of us no longer have school holidays, |
| 1:34.7 | it still feels like a time to sink into books. It's like an injecting pure entertainment |
| 1:39.8 | chapter after chapter. That's why today we are bringing you the best of the best. |
| 1:43.4 | Our top three fiction and our top three non-fiction books published this year, |
| 1:47.0 | and the Times and Sunday Times 100 long list. Some will sweep you up in the storytelling, |
| 1:52.0 | others will tell you things you never knew you needed to know. |
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