From a transporting historical saga to a tale of small-town betrayal, the authors of our favourite page-turners reveal the books they take on holiday \u2013 introduced by Jenny Colgan<\/p>\n
It <\/strong>is important to follow a balanced diet on holiday. Too many \u201cMy Wife\u2019s Sister\u2019s Husband\u2019s Psychopath\u201d, and you\u2019ll get confused and grumpy. Too much sugary romance and your teeth will fall out. Something too big and challenging you\u2019ve been meaning to get round to for ages will make you feel guilty and more liable to give in to scrolling, and if you take too many supposedly upmarket \u201cmust reads\u201d of the summer, you will simply prove to yourself just how much overhyped averageness there is out there, when all you want is something satisfying.<\/p>\n You need to be able to chop and change depending on your mood, which means fiction and nonfiction. And finally, you need to be able to throw all of these rules out of the window if you find a sandy old water-stained copy of, for example, James Herbert\u2019s Domain in your holiday cottage and decide to devote yourself to 600 pages of post-nuclear mutant rat-strewn London, or choose to go for a full-on Maeve Binchy sesh.<\/p>\n
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