Summer reading

OK: judging by the comments on my last post, you don't like Sky as much as I do. Fair enough. Anyway there'll be no blogs and no telly for the next two weeks while I'm away on holiday. I'll be on a books-only diet.

I'm packing C, Tom McCarthy's follow up to his excellent novel Remainder and Emma Donoghue's Room - both of which are on this year's Man Booker Prize long-list. Plus Dave Eggers' Zeitoun. And a couple of books I missed last year: Legend of a Suicide by David Vann and then to counter that, Gregor Muir's raucous memoir Lucky Kunst about his time hanging out with, and sponging from, those inhabiting the 1990s world of the Young British Artists.

After which I will be fit and ready for the all the festivals that erupt in Edinburgh throughout August.