Sentence examples for a holiday reading from inspiring English sources

A holiday reading list should include at least one hot, new book that you haven't yet had time for: I've already read Solar by Ian McEwan, so I'm taking Christos Tsiolkas's The Slap, which tells the story of what happens after a man hits a naughty three-year-old at a suburban barbecue.

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Rachel Hore's second novel is pitched perfectly for a holiday read near, say, Lamorna Cove, in south-west Cornwall, with perhaps a trip to Penlee House in Penzance to gen up on the area's Edwardian artists.

A few summers back, stuck for a holiday read, I picked up a copy of Monsieur in an English language shop in Florence, intrigued by the references to the beautiful French city I'd once passed through too quickly while consumed with the mad idea that I was going to hitch all the way to India (abandoned once I'd got as far as Naples, mainly on public transport).

Just before the snow started falling in Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave the foreign policy community "a little holiday reading": the long-awaited report of the first ever Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review -- the QDDR.

Q&As (and a photo of him carrying a pile of hefty holiday reading) indicate a strong bias towards political non-fiction, including biographies of Robert Kennedy and Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century, Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson's The Spirit Level, Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation and the essay collection Varieties of Capitalism.

A selection of holiday reading to compete with Ed Miliband's.

But these are quibbles in a book that manages to be that rarest of things - a good literary novel and a cracking holiday read.

This is a great historical read, and makes a good holiday read, as its long enough to keep you busy reading for at least a week.

Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor was an ideal holiday read and a valuable reminder of the horrors of the Irish potato famine.

"But there's a demand, whether it's experimental, dissident stuff or just a good holiday read.