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H: Lis Speight, host

A: Jonathan Ruppin, Foyles

H: How many times have you left buying your holiday books until the very last minute? 3 for the price of 2 at the airport sounding familiar? Well keep watching because today we’re going to be reviewing this summer’s hottest titles

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H: Hello I’m Lis Speight and welcome to the Travel Talk brought to you today by Foster Grant Reading glasses. Now then everyone knows that reading a good book isn’t just about what lies between the pages. It’s the way you allow your imagination to visualise the characters and the places, so how can you seek out this summer’s hottest titles and avoid a last minute scramble at the airport? Well joining me today to review this summer’s must-have reads from some of the greatest writers of our time is Jonathan Ruppin from Foyle’s bookshop, welcome Jonathan, really nice to see you today. Now we are live today so if you have any questions for Jonathan use the box on your screen and if you’re following us on Twitter you can comment by using # tag studio talk. Coming up on today’s show – preparing your holiday reading collection. This summer’s hottest titles and all of your questions answered live. So we’ve all been there at the airport haven’t we, without enough books for our holiday. Why do we always leave it to the last minute Jonathan? We’re all a little bit guilty of that aren’t we?

A: I think that going on holiday is such a complicated business that it’s probably the last thing that we think about. You need to make sure that you’ve got everything for every eventuality, especially if you’re taking children with you

H: Yes

A: You need to make sure you’ve got everything in your suitcase, and actually picking the right book for your holiday is something you do need to take a little bit of time about, because you don’t want to be stuck with something that you can’t stand for two weeks

H: But the airport book shops, they’ve got quite a good range haven’t they, but maybe it’s a good idea to think about it a couple of weeks before when you’ve got better choice when you go into your local book shop

A: If you’ve got the time, I mean a good local bookshop will give you a really wide range of choices. You’ll have a bookseller there who can make some recommendations and you can spend a bit of time browsing rather than nervously looking over your shoulder waiting out for that announcement for when your flight’s going

H: And how do we find out what the latest releases are that might suit us? Where should we sort of start looking?

A: Well as a book seller my first answer to that is come into a bookshop and ask a bookseller.

H: I would be a bit embarrassed about doing that. I’ve always been a bit shy about asking one of the staff because they don’t really know you, and how do you sort of judge what some tastes might be?

A: Best way as a bookseller, when I train new booksellers, I say just ask them something that they’ve read recently

H: Right

A: And that gives a perfect idea of somebody’s taste. But don’t be embarrassed when you go into a bookshop and ask because we’re booksellers, we love reading books and we love telling people about books and we will very gladly tell you what we think you should be reading. But if you don’t fancy chatting to a bookseller of course there are loads of online resources these days. Most book retailers have recommendations and reviews, obviously magazines and newspapers will be full of what the latest titles are, but probably actually the best other way to find out about books that you like is ask your friends. They’re likely to have similar taste

H: Yes, yes

A: And they will give you an honest answer about whether the book they spent £7.99 on was actually worth it

H: And the top tens, we get a lot of those don’t we in the weekend section – should you be going and buying those or should you sort of go off and find your own?

A: I think if you go by the top tens you’ll certainly find something there that’s going to be pretty entertaining. If you’re looking for something a little bit more quirky and off-beat admittedly it’s not the place to go, but books don’t make the top ten unless there’s something decent about them

H: Yes. And the displays in the bookshops as well are often helpful, aren’t they? You can see which new titles are out?

A: They are, be a little bit wary of that because books make it to the front of bookshops because publishers have paid for them to be there

H: Ooh controversial

A: So it’s not necessarily the best books and the books that everybody loves most. So do – by all means have a look round and see what’s new and out there, but do have a look round the rest of the bookshop as well, because you never know what you’ll find hidden away on a shelf

H: Ok. Now a lot of books I expect are sold around Christmas, but summer I guess is your next biggest selling -

A: It’s certainly a very busy time of year. I mean everybody, whether they’re going away or not gets a bit of time off over summer usually, and you know, it’s a wonderful way to relax, so a lot of people take the time to read that they might not have the rest of the year

H: That’s right, I always tend to read on summer holiday but not necessarily as much as I would like to, because there’s always something else to do I find. Now as far as books for certain destinations go, I would – personally – not choose a thriller or something like that if I was going on holiday, I would choose something that was a little bit more gentle, but do you think that people tend to choose a certain book depending on which destination they’re going to?

A: I’m not sure they do, I mean a few people will try and pick a book that’s set in the place where they’re going

H: Right, that’s a good idea

A: But not that many people actually do that. I think – I think the best thing to do is to pick something that you know you’re going to enjoy. If you like crime and thrillers and that sort of thing then that’s what you should take on holiday

H: Right

A: Because you’re getting the chance to do something you like which is read the sort of book that you like, so you don’t necessarily want to try something completely new on holiday because you might find actually it’s not something that you enjoy that much after all

H: And if you’re not enjoying a book should you feel guilty about just stopping it and starting another one?

A: No, absolutely not. Life’s too short to read bad books. If you sit down and work out how many books you’re likely to read in your lifetime, which I did once, it’s a terrifyingly small number, so give it 50 pages, give it 100 pages, but if at that point you’re really not enjoying it, stop doing it. You wouldn’t carry on doing anything else on holiday you were having a miserable time doing, so why do it with a book?

H: That’s a really good tip, ok. Well up next the essential summer book guide bought to you by Foster Grant reading glasses. Stay with us

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H: Now if you’ve just joined us welcome to Travel Talk, I’m Lis Speight and joining me today is Jonathan Ruppin from Foyles bookshop. So let’s find out a little bit more about what titles are going to be hot this summer. Let’s start off by talking a little bit about chick lit. I hate that phrase actually because it’s so demeaning, but it does kind of sum it up, we know really what that means. What sort of books are chick lit books?

A: Chick lit books, I mean they tend to have – they tend to have younger characters in them, they’re aimed at women who perhaps haven’t settled down yet or you know they’re still looking for a boyfriend or looking for the right job. People who are still sort of having a lot more fun than settling down in life, not that I’m suggesting that everybody has to settle down in life

H: Or that when you’re settled down you can’t have fun

A: Exactly

H: But anyway we know where you’re coming from!

A: When you’re young you should take the opportunity to have some fun

H: Yes

A: And I think that’s what chick lit’s all about

H: Yes. And what sort of chick lit books are out there this summer?

A: Well I mean one of the big names is likely to be Loulou Taylor, her book Midnight Girls, it’s her second book. She’s a bit of an heir to people like Jilly Cooper and Jackie Collins

H: Right

A: Except she’s aimed at possibly a slightly younger audience

H: Oh ok

A: And she, you know she talks about women who are – who are doing that, who are trying to make a success of their lives in terms of finding a job, finding a boyfriend. It’s just full of slightly hapless adventures I think

H: Right. Based in London I think isn’t it?

A: She is yes, basically the sort of heroine I think who needs to go through a bit of grief, bit of disappointment, a bit of misery but usually turns out alright in the end and finds a dream job, a dream boyfriend, a happy time in the end

H: Yes well that sounds a good one. And we’ve also got Confessions of a Jane Austin Addict – that sounds interesting

A: Now that’s really fun. It’s got a sort of slightly fantasy element because it involves a bit of time travel. It involves a girl from Manhattan who works – who wakes up in the body of a Jane Austin heroine in the Regency era, and of course it’s completely different from the life that she’s known. But she starts to wonder if perhaps it might be a life that she likes after all. She’s not so keen on the corsets; she’s very keen on the Mr Darcey types hanging around!

H: And wouldn’t we all be, let’s face it. Ok another author to look out for, Paige Toon

A: Paige Toon, really knows what her readers like because she’s the editor – she’s the books editor for Heat magazine

H: Oh ok

A: So she knows just the sorts of things her readers like and so she writes things very much along those lines. Her latest one is about a girl who had a fling with a wonderful boy when she was 16 but they were too young so she moved on, she went to live in Sydney, and she’s settled down with a lovely man, and then the old guy gets back in touch and who does she choose?

H: Oh you’d have to read it to find out! And these are great sort of books to read on holiday aren’t they because they’re easily put downable and they’re happy and cheerful and what have you

A: They are. But women should be a little bit careful about putting them down because actually their boyfriends might well pick them up. More men read chick lit than they let on

H: Who are you? We should find out. Moving onto older women’s fiction, which again is a not particularly nice phrase but we know the sort of thing that those people might like. Bit historical maybe, bit of romance?

A: Definitely

H: What’s out there for that age group?

A: Well Audrey Niffenegger is an author that a lot of people may well have already have heard of because of a book called The TimeTravellers Wife

H: Right yes

A: Which was a big hit a few years ago, there was a film recently. But her latest one which is called Her Fearful Symmetry is set in and around Highgate cemetery. It involves two American twins who inherit a house from their aunt which is in Highgate cemetery, on the condition that they go and live there. So they do

H: Sounds spooky already

A: It is. And they find that it’s still haunted by the ghost of their aunt whose left it to them

H: That sounds a lovely one. Another one, an author – Sarah Rayner

A: Sarah Rayner. This was a lovely discovery when I came across it earlier this year. This is a first novel

H: Oh right, that’s a good recommendation

A: And you wouldn’t know it from the quality of the writing. It starts off with a really quite shocking scene where a woman is just having a quiet conversation with her husband on a train when he suddenly has a heart attack and dies. Obviously extremely distressing for her. Through the support of a friend and another woman who was also on the same train, three of them end up becoming close friends

H: Right

A: And they go through some difficult times, because obviously losing your husband, especially as this woman has young children, it’s quite a tough thing, but they end up – end up with some very strong friendships and new lives for all of them

H: Ok. Susan Wooldridge as well, I’ve got her on my list – the Hidden Dance there at the front

A: Yes, yes

H: That sounds a lovely one because for some – actually based on a ship might be the sort of thing you might read on a cruise do you think?

A: Perfect for a cruise

H: Yes

A: People might – people might have heard of Susan Wooldridge, she actually played Daphne Manners in the Jewel in the Crown

H: Oh right

A: Back in the ‘80s

H: Yes

A: So she may well be remembered for that, and this again is her first novel and it’s fantastic fun

H: Oh lovely

A: Set in the 1930s, it’s about a woman called Lily Sutton whose running away from an abusive husband, going to start a new life in New York. She’s on this cruise, she’s travelling third class because she hasn’t got the money to trade up to first class, and there is this wonderful. Vision between the classes

H: Right

A: The class system very much exists on the ship. But we find out that perhaps the first class passengers are not the wonderful people that we think they are

H: Right

A: And there’s some intrigue with a missing necklace, and some romance between unlikely people. And of course a cruise is a wonderful little microcosm of society

H: Absolutely yes. That would be a nice tie-up then wouldn’t it, to read on a –

A: It would and I would recommend it to almost anybody actually, young or old, man or woman, that’s a good, fun read

H: Ok lovely, the Hidden Dance by Susan Wooldridge, look out for that one. Taking some of your questions now, we’ve had one in from Sandra. She says “I’m looking for a light-hearted read for my summer holiday to the Med. Any suggestions?”

A: Well the one I would really like to recommend, again it’s a first novel, I seem to be recommending a lot of those, but there are lots of new writers out there

H: Well there’s nothing wrong with your best book is your first book, I mean they do say that don’t they?

A: Absolutely. Mr Rosenblum’s List – it’s probably one of the funniest books I’ve read in years

H: Right

A: It starts off a Jewish immigrant comes over to live in London, and he and his wife, they want to be English. Mr Rosenblum’s list is a list of what you have to do to be English, and he decides he wants to become an English gentleman, and to do that he decides he’s going to go and build his own golf course

H: Oh dear

A: Goes off to Dorset to try and do this. The locals – the locals aren’t very happy about this, this strange interloper at first and keep warning him about the Dorsetshire Woolly pig, but eventually – eventually he gets them on side, and it’s just a wonderful comedy of English manners. I think the English like to laugh at themselves and it’s tremendously – tremendous fun and Mr Rosenblum is an adorable character and you’re rooting for him all the way

H: Yes. Well that’s a really good recommendation then. Comedy is not something that I would necessarily go to, but there’s a couple more on your list aren’t there? The Gropes by Tom Sharp, that sounds an interesting one, a crazy aristocratic old family

A: Yes. Tom Sharp did those wonderful Wilt books which again were made into a TV series with Griff Rhys Jones

H: That’s a while back now isn’t it?

A: It was a while back. But Tom Sharp, I mean he’s still on top form. It’s very difficult to write a farce in book form

H: Yes

A: Because you’ve got to keep pace going, and he does it fantastically well. This is an aristocratic old family, the men are all drunken old soaks so it’s the women who take charge and they decide that they want some heirs but they want them to be female, so there’s co-opting of all sorts of individuals into this strange scheme to get female heirs for all these country seats. It’ll keep you laughing the whole way through, the Gropes, great fun

H: And Terry Pratchett’s got a new one out as well I understand

A: Yes. Terry Pratchett is just a -30 something books in –

H: Incredible isn’t it?

A: His Discworld series

H: And he’s not very well as well at the moment is he, I mean his health is going and he’s still churning them out. It’s amazing

A: Yes and Unseen Academicals which is his latest one is as good as anything he’s written. As fans of the series will know the Unseen university which is the Wizard’s university is very much a central part of the Discworld, and in this one they have to get a football team together which of course wizards aren’t necessarily particularly good at. Fortunately they have the long armed orang-utan who is the librarian in goal which presumably helps a little bit. But as usual he’s a wonderful satirist, full of funny lines

H: Yes. On top form. Now we talked quite a lot about chick lit, and books for older ladies, but what about the chaps then, what about the blokes? What do they read on holiday? Some recommendations for them

A: Men are tricky when it comes to recommending books

H: Yes I know. They’re tricky. Tricky tricky

A: They’re far less willing to try new things. I mean it’s very difficult to get men to read books by women writers, let alone books with female characters in them

H: Yes. That’s interesting.

A: so hopefully some men will be prepared to try something new, but if you want something more reliable a good thriller is always a good place to start

H: Yes

A: Noah Boyd is one of the big new names on the scene. He’s very much like Lee Child whose Jack Reacher series is hugely popular

H: If you like those you may well like this

A: Yes, absolutely. William Boyd, he’s a little bit more towards the literary end but it’s wonderfully intriguing, his latest. A man gets inadvertently involved in a scan involving a dodgy medical product. Basically a body turns up that – a murder is pinned on him that he had absolutely nothing to do with. He ends up on the run, sleeping in a park

H: That sounds –

A: But he still wants to do the decent thing and make sure that this scam is uncovered

H: Right, well that sounds really gripping, that’s something I might go for actually. And then you could share it with your husband which is always a good thing actually because if you can cut down on the amount of luggage you’ve got, we all know how much stuff you take on holiday. If you can have a book that you would like and maybe your husband or your boyfriend or whatever would like

A: Absolutely

H: Anything you can recommend on that front?

A: Well I mean William Boyd’s obviously an excellent example and the Susan Wooldridge as well.

H: Hector and his search for happiness

A: Oh Hector and his search for happiness, that’s such a fun book

H: I’ve got that on my list here and that looks really funny actually

A: It is, it’s been a huge hit in France for a couple of years

H: Oh right

A: And all over Europe, and now finally the British readers have picked up on it

H: We’ve caught on

A: It’s about a young psychiatrist who you know, as a job as a psychiatrist it’s his job to try and help people make themselves happier, work out what’s wrong with their lives, and pretty soon he realises that he doesn’t know what makes a happy life, so he goes off on tour round France and round Europe, all over the place, meeting people who are happy for all sorts of different reasons, and it’s all about the search for happiness, what really makes us happy

H: Yes. Going on holiday might make you happy, so read this book you’re all laughing. Another one Let the Great world spin, that’s on the list for sort of recommending to both sexes

A: Definitely and Let the Great World Spin I think would be one of my – one of my recommendations for the summer for just about anybody given half the chance. I would recommend this book to them. It won a major book award in the States but don’t let a major literary award put you off, because it’s –

H: No, but it’s a pointer in the right direction maybe isn’t it?

A: It’s hugely accessible, it’s two Irish brothers, one of them goes off to America to help down and outs, street walkers – his brother follows him wondering what on earth he’s doing out there, and finds that he’s created a rather lovely community amongst these people and finds that there is life and happiness and hope on the streets of New York. It’s got a marvellous array of characters and when something goes wrong for one of those it – I must admit it was a book that moved me to tears once or twice

H: Yes, ah – in a way that’s quite nice as well when you’re on holiday, to get really into a book like that

A: Absolutely

H: And get so involved with the characters that when it ends you feel really disappointed don’t you?

A: Definitely

H: Got to start a new one. So taking another one of your questions now, one from Rachel – “what’s the formula for an ultimate summer read?” That’s quite a bit question really isn’t it?

A: It is. It’s got to be a page turner. It’s a bit of a cliché but it’s got to keep you reading. If you’re battling away, you don’t want to be doing that on your holiday, you don’t want to be hating a book. So it’s got to be a page turner, it’s got to be a plot where you want to know what happens next and it’s got to be characters that you care about. If you don’t care about the character then why on earth – what does the plot matter? You don’t really care whether they find happiness, whether they find romance, whether their problems are solved. It needs to be somebody that – somebody that you want to route for a little bit

H: Ok. Maybe a recommendation from a friend or your book store person, that’s the best way to go

A: Absolutely

H: Ok. Moving on swiftly to historical novels, it’s a big genre this isn’t it, and they just keep churning them out don’t they? What are the good ones this summer?

A: Well there’s all sorts now, it used to be that we were just interested in the eras that we were taught about in school

H: Yes

A: Which was basically World War II, the Elizabethan era and for some of us the Napoleonic era, but now there’s a lot more out there. One of my favourites this year was the first in a series called Raven by Giles Christian. Blood Eye is the first in this series and it’s set in a Viking era so there’s lots of –

H: Oh Vikings, we love those

A: So there’s lots of marauding, lots of pillaging, but inevitably in a warrior society, where might is right, there’s an awful lot of conflict as well, so just because you’re off in a small army doesn’t mean there aren’t defeating the Norseman and the Anglo Saxons and it doesn’t mean there isn’t a fair amount of conflict

H: Ok

A: So that’s terrific fun

H: And Mistress of Rome, that’s all about gladiators that sound equally fabulous

A: Now Mistress of Rome, by Kate Quinn is one of my absolute guilty pleasures

H: And why not?

A: It’s a little bit over the top, a little bit like – if anybody’s seen the series that’s on at the moment “Spartacus, blood and sand”

H: Yes, yes, my husband’s watching that, I can’t say it’s really my cup of tea but yes he watches it up on the computer

A: Yes there’s lots of well oiled gladiators and hand maidens, but this one as well as all the sex and violence has also got a wonderful, wonderfully intriguing plot involving an assassination attempt against the emperor. That is a real page turner and it’s a Roman romp I would have to say

H: Yes so if you’re going to Rome, you’re going to Italy, it might be the sort of thing that would really bring it all to life, because it’s still all there, isn’t it, all that architecture, so –

A: Absolutely

H: That might be a really good one to look out for

A: Definitely. Grant Sutherland’s Cobras of Calcutta is another first in a series that I’ve really, really enjoyed

H: Right

A: That’s set in the Napoleonic era and it’s going to be the first in a series that has – it’s got a British agent and of course in the Napoleonic era there was all sorts of dastardly stuff going on between the French and the English who were always trying to get one over on each other. This one’s set in India, you know it’s James Bond from 200 years ago I’d say

H: That sounds fantastic, I might actually have to dabble with this genre, because I don’t really read much historical stuff, my husband does but I don’t. Maybe I’ll have to get some of his books off the shelf and read some of those. Now moving on to short stories, not the automatic thing I would imagine you would take on holiday but actually you can dip in and out really quickly can’t you, or if you’re sitting in the airport waiting you can finish one off

A: Absolutely. British readers tend not to read a lot of short stories for some reason we don’t like them very much

H: It’s weird isn’t it?

A: Americans do, Europeans do, Britons seem to want something chunky that’ll keep them reading. But yes short stories can be great fun and of course if you’re not enjoying one there’s another one coming along in 20 pages, so you don’t need to feel guilty about not finishing one.

H: Pretty monsters

A: Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link. Fantastic collection of magical stories. I mean this is something that will appeal to readers of fantasy; it will appeal to people who like Harry Potter. It will appeal to people who like James Herbert and Steven King

H: Right

A: It’s full of – full of witches and monsters and all sorts of scares that you know the sort of ghost stories that you might tell round the campfire

H: Yes, oh lovely

A: So there’s plenty of chills in there

H: And the Moomin’s author

A: Yes now

H: Travelling Light –

A: Tove Jansson, extraordinary writer, I mean the Moomin’s themselves are hugely popular, it’s Moomin mania in bookshops at the moment

H: Isn’t that weird how that’s come back into fashion, because I read that when I was a child, isn’t that funny?

A: It’s just a nostalgia thing I think, but oddly enough the best-selling cookery book in a lot of bookshops at the moment is the Moomin’s Cookbook which is full of traditional Finnish cuisine

H: Ok

A: But Tove Jansson, as well as doing the Moomins wrote this wonderful fiction as well, and the short stories in Travelling Light are perfect for being on holiday because they are all about arrivals and departures

H: Ok

A: People turning up in places unexpectedly, people vanishing from places unexpectedly, it’s all about people coming and going. Perfect for holiday

H: That sounds a lovely one. Yes. Few more of your questions now, got quite a few coming in. Kate from Bromley “I really really enjoy theatre. Are there any books you’d recommend for me? Thanks.” Put you on the spot now. Any theatrical-type books?

A: Well the first one I can think of, there’s an author called Nicola Upson whose a crime writer and she – the 1930s crime writer Josephine Tay is a character in her books. She’s a detective herself and her first one, the name of which eludes me at the moment, although her latest one is called Two for Sorrow was a murder set in a theatre

H: Oh right ok, well you could easily find that out by asking at your bookshop, so

A: So that I’d certainly recommend

H: Lovely. Ok well that’s a good start anyway isn’t it? Another question in from Leanne – “I think this show is wonderful. Any good autobiographies for this summer?”

A: Well it depends who you want to read about really doesn’t it?

H: Yes

A: If you want something heavyweight or something –

H: Lianne so –

A: A bit more celeb-based

H: Yes

A: But there are, there are inevitably some fascinating people out there

H: Yes it depends Lianne who you like, whether you’re a Cheryl Cole kind of person or a sports kind of person, it’s a difficult one isn’t it?

A: Yes. Surprisingly I’d recommend Chris Evans’ book

H: Yes, I might read that actually

A: Yes a lot of people don’t like Chris Evans, they find him a little bit abrasive, a little bit annoying but his autobiography is absolutely fascinating

H: Ok

A: It’s really honest and open and truthful and very thoughtful about the business that he works in

H: Yes

A: So if you want a celeb biography with a little bit more – a little bit more weight to it, then I’d really recommend that

H: And it’s interesting to find out how he got there and how he did it all, because I have read a few excerpts of that actually, I might read that this summer, good tip. Ah now question in from Jess – “if you had to pick just one book to read this summer, what would it be?” What are you taking on holiday?

A: Well the book that I’ve been recommending to a hell of a lot of people this year and I think I could honestly recommend it to all sorts of people again it’s one of those for young and old, men and women, it’s a book called Tiger Hills by Sereta Mandanna. Again it’s a first novel so people might not have heard of her, but she got the record advance in India for a first novel ever

H: Wow

A: And it’s one of those great epics. It’s about a boy and a girl who grow up great friends, and as they grow older the boy thinks that perhaps there’s a little bit of a romance involved but the girl has fallen for Machu the Tiger killer and she only has eyes for him. But he has taken a vow and will not have anything to do with her. It’s a glorious – it’s a three generational epic. It just carries you along, the highs and lows of this extraordinary pair of friends. It’s set in the beautifully lush landscape of southern India which is wonderfully described. I’ve never been to southern India, I now want to go

H: Ah that’s

A: Now that I’ve read this book

H: A recommendation and a half isn’t it? That’s fantastic

A: Yes, it’s – you know it’s quite chunky, it’s nearly 500 pages –

H: You’ve got time on holiday haven’t you?

A: But it really didn’t feel like it. I whipped through it so – it’s an Indian Gone with the Wind I would say

H: Oh lovely, there we go, that sounds fantastic, I’m going to run out and get that one. Well Jonathan we’re out of time I’m afraid, we could talk about this all day couldn’t we? Kate’s sent another question, another answer in – another comment in should I say, saying thank you very much for your recommendation about the theatrical book, I’m sure she’ll be running out to try and find that. Well Jonathan thanks so much for coming in and sharing your top tips with us. And we are out of time so thanks very much for submitting your questions, and this show was brought to you today by Foster Grant reading glasses, and for more information about them you can go to fostergrant.co.uk. Well happy holidays everybody and I hope you go into your bookshop and pick that fabulous book and that you really enjoy it, and I hope it enhances your holiday experience. Thanks very much for watching and we’ll see you next time. Bye bye

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