Over here in the UK, we are well and truly into summer: some of us have World Cup fever, and others... have not. To celebrate the continuing balm, we are rerunning one of our classic summer reading episodes from 2023, where John, Andy and Nicky choose six books, old and new: O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker; Sheep’s Clothing by Celia Dale; The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time by Catherine Taylor; Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry; A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀; and The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs.

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