PHOTOGRAPH: PHILIP LEE HARVEYWe asked the experts at specialist
travel-book store Daunt Books for
their tips on this summer’s best
travel fiction (dauntbooks.co.uk).
Do Not Say We
Have Nothing
Madeleine Thien
In this sweeping novel
of 20th-century
China, 10-year-old
Marie and her mother
take in Ai-ming, who
is fleeing from the
protests in Beijing’s
Tiananmen Square.Lillian Boxfish Takes
a Walk
Kathleen Rooney
In a witty and heartfelt
ode to New York,
Lillian Boxfish walks
across Manhattan on
New Year’s Eve 1984,
recalling her arrival to
the city in the 1930s
as she goes.NEW TOURS
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