Holiday reading
Most of us love reading lists. Lists compiled by people we respect that we can take to the bookshop or library and tick off titles as we work our way through them.
Earlier this week we commented on Newsweek’s choice of Jenna Bush to suggest suitable titles for readers in the northern summer.
The UK Telegraph has gone 22 better, with no fewer than three Children’s Laureates and many other distinguished authors and illustrators creating a terrific reading list for holidays, or any time. And yes, some of ours make the cut. Here’s Meg Rosoff on Margo Lanagan’s Tender Morsels:
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan is a genre-smashing novel. Set in the dark, dark fairy tale world of the Brothers Grimm, it raises questions about the price of living without risk, and how unspeakable trauma can be passed on to children. The sexual content, though not exactly explicit, made me gasp with shock, and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone under 15. But everyone else? Definitely.
This is a list ideal for a lazy (northern) summer day that can just as easily be enjoyed in front of a cosy fire in (southern) winter.
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