Ellie Levenson: Don't feel intimidated by the highbrow summer reading lists proferred by the great and good. Guidebooks give you the facts about a place, but fiction goes to the soul. Keiran Falconer ...

I walked into my first day in a new job once with a copy of a celebrity gossip magazine in my bag. I'm sure I also had at least one broadsheet newspaper and possibly a news weekly too, but one of my ...