What the world is reading
DANIELLE STEEL, John Grisham, Helen Fielding and Colin Dexter: wonderful, brain-dead summer reading lingers like sand in your shoes long after the holidays. As August slides into September, though, you can begin to see small signs of a cerebral revival on both sides of the Atlantic.
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