The great escape: 50 brilliant books to transport you this summer
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A vampire in Shanghai, artists on Hydra, and identical twins run away to New Orleans... dazzling novels plus the best politics, history,and memoir to take you away from lockdown
The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel
The long-awaited conclusion to Mantel's trilogy about the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell is a 912-page rollercoaster of relentlessly absorbing political machination and human frailty, as Mantel tracks the inner life of her subject with extraordinary acuity. Unmissable.