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Every highbrow hack, as Evelyn Waugh described Cyril Connolly, is apt to experience an embarrassment of riches when it comes to recommending books for the beach and other seasonal retreats from workaday life. Surveying the bookcase and its shelf of recent titles, this year is very much of a kind
Books can be a consolation to people in all sorts of circumstances. The wonder and mystery lie not in how they found those books, but in how those books found them.