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

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Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie Bloomsbury, 2017, 260 pages, $24.99 […]

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