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THE HAPPY RETURN BY CS FORESTER (1937)

- Recommende­d by WILLIAM FOTHERINGH­AM

The best of the Horatio Hornblower series: escapist in a gung-ho Napoleonic War way, elegantly written with a slow burning central love affair between a feisty woman and an emotionall­y retarded naval officer.

It’s based in the Caribbean which would make up for whatever the British weather could throw at me. For a Greek beach, I’d cool down with Nicholas Monsarrat’s WWII Battle of the Atlantic epic The Cruel Sea (1951).

William Fotheringh­am’s new book, A Sunday In

Hell (Yellow Jersey Press) is out now

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