The 50 Best Summer Reads
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This week's panel:
Alice O’Keeffe, the books editor of The Bookseller
Mishal Husain, BBC Broadcaster and Chair of the 2009 Orange Award for New Writers
Sarah Dunant, the author of Sacred Hearts, the final installment in her bestselling trilogy, out next week, Virago, £14.99
Kate Gunning, the head of buying at Foyles
Toby Bourne, the head of fiction and children’s buying at Waterstone’s
- 1 Ninety gaffes in ninety years
- 2 Spotify: 1 million plays, £108 return
- 3 Apple admits it has a human rights problem
- 4 Rangers future could be bright says administrator
- 5 Rothschild loses libel case, and reveals secret world of money and politics
- 6 MP faces charges over Nazi stag night
- 7 Six Grammys, five years off: Adele puts love before career
- 8 No secularism please, we're British
- 9 Mark Steel: If religion is 'marginal', I'm the Pope
- 10 Lightning kills an entire football team
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