Excellent holiday reading.
Sports biographies are my usual holiday reading.
Whatever your opinion of the European commission you must concede its literature makes consoling holiday reading.
Needless to say, wherever we are on holiday, reading the Guardian is a top priority.
There are stately homes enough for a television series and although the narrative is at times painful, it is ideal holiday reading.
But I cannot help but admire it, even though given a choice, I would probably select Moominsummer Madness for my holiday reading.
For would-be explorers snuggled up in their armchairs or, indeed, stretched out on the beach Dr Ashcroft's book, with its many vicarious thrills, makes for ideal holiday reading.
That may be one reason why the White House let it be known that when Barack Obama spent his Christmas vacation in Hawaii, his holiday reading list included Lou Cannon's "President Reagan: the Role of a Lifetime", a whopping biography of more than 800 pages.
For a teenager whose most involved holiday reading experiences had mainly been with Victorian doorstoppers, with their fabulously elaborate plots and detailed chronologies, the sudden death of the central character, Mrs Ramsay, in parentheses in the novel's highly stylised middle section, was deeply strange.
Some advice: Do yourself a favor and do not make hard work of your holiday reading.
