Holiday reading tips: 20 non-fiction books for the summer

If you fancy taking a bag of biographies and other fact-based books on holidays this year, here are some recommendations 

Various book recommendations for the beach and beyond.

1. Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK, Simon Kuper
Simon Kuper’s columns for the Financial Times are a breath of fresh air. He’s written some brilliant books on football. In Chums, he turns his gaze on the small, entitled set of people who run the UK. Many of them studied at Oxford in the 1980s like Kuper and share the boorish tactics of football hooligans no doubt familiar to the author.

Summer Books Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK Simon Kuper Simon Kuper’s columns for the Financial Times are a breath of fresh air. He’s written some brilliant books on football. In Chums, he turns his gaze on the small, entitled set of people who run the UK. Many of them studied at Oxford in the 1980s like Kuper and share the boorish tactics of football hooligans no doubt familiar to the author