Summertime and the readin' is easy

Stuck for which books to pack in your suitcase? We asked the great and the good for their holiday must haves Mark McGhee Motherwell FC manager I always like to read two books at once and this summer I've got Will Self's PsychoGeography and Donna Tartt's The Secret History on the go. I find Tartt's novel an antidote to the Will Self, parts of which I don't really understand. I don't know if he does either, to be honest. Jonathan Mills Director, Edinburgh International Festival This summer I'll be re-reading Hanna Krall's The Woman from Hamburg And Other True Stories. Short stories are the perfect option for my hectic summer schedule, as is poetry, so I'll probably read Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, a collection by the Palestinian writer Mahmoud Darwish. Wendy Alexander MSP I'm starting with Between Each Breath by Adam... [read full story]