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What Spectator writers read on their summer holidays

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The flights are booked, the passports are dusted down and it’s time to pack. But which books deserve space in your suitcase? Here, Spectator writers share their all-time favourite summer holiday reads…

Matthew Parris

My all-time favourite re-read at any time of year is Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey.

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