What to pack along with the aftersun and flipflops? From novels about gay footballers and updated Greek classics to biographies and poetry, our guest critics offer their holiday must-reads PART ONE: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Julian Barnes and more pick their summer reads COLM TÓIBÍN’s exhilarating _House of Names_ (Viking £14.99) is a retelling of Aeschylus’s drama on the sacrificing by Agamemnon of his daughter Cassandra and its tragic consequences, including the murder of Agamemnon by his wife, Clytemnestra. The book has a controlled, hushed quality, like that of a Morandi still life, which only serves to heighten the terror and pity of the tale. MICHAEL LONGLEY’s latest collection, _Angel Hill_ (Jonathan Cape £10) – what a genius he has for titles – is at once lush and elegiac, delicate and muscular, melancholy and thrilling. I shall not be going anywhere – hate holidays – but will stay happily at home, rereading EVELYN WAUGH’s second world war _Sword of Honour_ trilogy (Penguin £14.99). Pure bliss. Continue reading...
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