The Radio 2 Book Club - A Summer Reads Special (with Simon Savidge)

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Sara welcomes former librarian turned book vlogger extraordinaire - Simon Savidge - to share his top five Summer Reads!

As well as recommending a range of great books - he picks out a few former Radio 2 Book Club choices which would go down well on the sun lounger - and tells us all about his recent induction to the Royal Society Of Literature.

Simon's Summer Reads

Passiontide by Monique Roffey
The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden
Dusk by Robbie Arnott
Harriet Tubman Live In Concert by Bob The Drag Queen
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Passiontide by Monique Roffey (a political literary thriller, like reading a bingeable Netflix series)

Published on Monday, 4th August 2025.

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