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WILLIAM BOYD AUTHORWhat will you be reading this summer? Updike

by Adam Begley. I’m a John Updike fan and this is the first biography. Also The Wooden Horse by Eric Williams as I’m writing a film script about PoWs.Favourite ever holiday read? Tim Butcher’s The Trigger and I read Catch-22 on holiday in West Africa when I was 18. I thought it the best book ever written. I can still recall my excitement.

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mETROnOmyWhat will you be reading this summer? KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs. I was a little kid when KLF were releasing music.

VIVIenne WeSTWOOD FAsHIOn dEsIGnER Favourite ever holiday read?

The most important books in English of the 20th century are Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. But for me it’s The Story of the Stone – the chinese 18th-century classic by cao Xueqin. This story gives great insight into human nature and also the importance of chinese civilisation.

YOkO OnO ARTIsT What will you be reading this summer? I pick up a few

books at a time and read them almost simultaneously. Right now it’s Mindfulness by mark Williams and danny Penman and The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes. If it’s poetry or fiction, I always examine the fonts and the paper used in the book. I like to enjoy the whole experience of reading including, if I’m outdoors, the season and the colour of the sky.

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I always wondered why the term mu mu kept cropping up in their chart hits. For a child from nigeria, it sounded a lot like a word we used to call people stupid. Then a few years later, I heard they burned a million pounds on an island somewhere and was even more confused. I hope John Higgs helps me get to the bottom of this whole thing.

The choice of reading can make or break your summer holiday. Here, novelists, fashion designers, musicians (and nick clegg) reveal what they’re planning to pack

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BeAR gRYLLS EXPLORERWhat will you be reading this summer?

I am going to a little island in Wales and I’ll be taking Questions of Life by nicky Gumbel. It’s a humble but very revealing, mind-whirring book that guides you through issues such as why we are here

and the afterlife in a simple but profound way. Favourite ever holiday read? Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. It is the astonishing true story of Louis Zamparini, a WWII pilot. It blew my mind. He was set adrift in a life-raft and survived, only to be cruelly tortured at the hands of the Japanese on a remote island in the south Pacific where he was washed ashore. 

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FAY WeLDOn AUTHORWhat will you be reading this summer?

An Officer and a Spy. Robert Harris is on top form in this half-thriller, half-documentary – the tale of colonel Picquart who dares to blow the whistle on the conspirators. When a man does the right thing, all

does not necessarily go well… Favourite ever holiday read? Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding, published in 1996 but as fresh as ever. ‘can officially confirm,’ Bridget writes, ‘that the way to a man’s heart is not through beauty, food, sex or character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.’ And she still gets the guy! Fay Weldon’s The new countess (£7.99, Head of Zeus) is out now.

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TIM keY cOmEdIAnWhat will you be reading this summer? I’m going to

read some Philip K dick, finally. I was drunk in Bulgaria and my friend made it very clear that that was the right thing to do. He went online and ordered a book there and then. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (later to become the classic film Bladerunner) was awaiting me on my return.

JOSIe ROuRke ARTIsTIc dIREcTOR, dOnmAR WAREHOUsE

What will you be reading this summer? I like to tackle nonfiction on holiday. This year Andrew solomon’s Far From the Tree is on the list. He has interviewed 300 families in which parents are raising children who are ‘different’ to them. I’m also rereading david niven’s witty autobiographies, such as The Moon’s a Balloon, about 1930s/40s Hollywood.

RICHARD CuRTIS FILm dIREcTORWhat are you reading this

summer? Capital by Thomas Piketty and the first A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard. And my daughter says I have to read The Art of Fielding by chad Harbach. Favourite ever holiday read? Alex Garland’s The Beach, The Ghost by Robert Harris and A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.

MARCO PIeRRe WHITe cHEF And REsTAURATEURFavourite ever holiday read?

A Man of Honor by Joseph Bonanno. He was a sicilian-born American mafioso who became the head of the Bonanno crime family. His memoirs start in the early 20th century and finish in the 1970s. I liked it because it gives you a snapshot into his life and into his world in new york.

BILL WYMAn BAssIsT, THE ROLLInG sTOnEsWhat will you be reading this

summer? The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids. I feel fortunate to have travelled the world and tales of lost and ancient civilisations hold a lasting appeal for me. I’ll also be taking away with me Leonardo’s Notebooks (edited by H Anna suh). A genius. Enough said.

Iconic bookshop Foyles has just opened a new flagship store making a bold, architect-designed statement at 107 charing cross Road. michael

Palin opened its travel department. shambolic shelves fill Barter Books,

housed in the old railway station of Alnwick in northumberland. A model

railway adds to the sense of a journey of discovery. Selexyz Dominicanen

in maastrict is literally a cathedral to books – a 13th-century dominican

church that has been filled with

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nICk CLegg dEPUTy PmWhat will you be reading this summer? Ghostwritten by

Isabel Wolff. my mother, who was in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp as a child, says it’s one of the most authentic accounts of life in the camps she’s ever read. And The Cruel Victory by Paddy Ashdown,

which may look like an unashamed plug for Paddy’s book but having met so many veterans in normandy recently on d-day I’m keen to learn more about that period. Favourite holiday read ever? I recently read This Is How You Lose Her by Junot diaz in one go. It’s a collection of short stories steeped in the Latino slang of new Jersey. Fast, raw, funny and moving.

ISY SuTTIe cOmEdIAnWhat will you be reading this summer? I love Iris murdoch, so

probably one of hers, although they can be a bit heavy to carry to the beach. I’m trying to read ‘classics’ right now alongside modern books so I’ll take Gulliver’s Travels too.

ALeXA CHung mOdEL, TV PREsEnTERWhat will you be reading

this summer? I want to read I Love Dick by chris Kraus because Tavi Gevinson recommended it and I’d read anything she tells me to. I also have Crime and Punishment

to get through, which currently feels like both a crime (for not finishing it) and a punishment.Favourite holiday read ever? Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and The Unbearable Lightness of Being. I love a classic. And I want to read everything nabokov has written as I’m such a huge Lolita fan. Alexa Chung’s IT (£8.99, Penguin) is out in paperback.

Explorations Summer readsmodernist shelves where the written word is worshipped. The ghosts of Hemingway and James Joyce still stalk Shakespeare

and Company in Paris: its shoebox rooms remain the quintessential Left Bank

gathering place for literary intellectuals. The Libreria Acqua Alta in Venice is so close to a canal that water laps over the

doorstep and there is even a gondola in the shop. Trinity College Library in

cambridge was designed by christopher Wren and centuries of study ooze from its stones. The New York Public Library is a reminder of civic grandeur and idealism at their finest – it is a temple for Everyman

and the Reading Room a stage set. The Livraria Lello in Porto is less a bookshop

than a deranged palace furnished with intricate panelling and painted ceilings.

Books remain the stars at the El Ateneo Grand Splendid in Buenos Aires. It is

a gilt-encrusted 19th-century theatre where books now occupy the best seats.

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