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Anyone who has ever doodled a limerick, of any tone or topic, pays homage to his genius. Edward Lear is one of those English one-offs who are treasured because they seem to suggest that there are no more important things to do than paint or write, and who embody a benign, provisional and above all amateur spirit.

Lear himself, slyly complicit, summarised his place in the English cultural landscape with a teasing, encrypted self-description:.

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How pleasant to know Mr Lear! Who has written such volumes of stuff! Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But a few think him pleasant enough.

He was born in London in , the same year as Charles Dickens, one of at least 17, or was it 19 his mother lost count; there were infant deaths? Young Edward was both swept up in, and set apart from, this brood. With good reason, he always felt different. By the age of five, he was not only a boy among many sisters, but also diagnosed as epileptic, a lifelong terror he shared with Lewis Carroll. The Life of a Wanderer.

But Uglow goes much further than Noakes. This, quite rightly, is the half-life of a gay man in a society that had neither language nor tolerance for homosexuality. Uglow, whose focus on Lear and his confused sexuality is unflinching, is too good a biographer to indulge in reckless speculation here. Nonsense verse soon followed. Cusk has a piercing intellect but demonstrates it through perspicacity, not by showing off on the page.

I came to the graphic memoir Persepolis Pantheon by Marjane Satrapi via my year-old daughter. It is set in Iran around the Islamic revolution when the author is We accompany her through her gradual awakening to politics, love, oppression and the complexity of families — and her drawings are enchanting. Ponti Picador by Sharlene Teo is a sultry, hilarious dissection of mother-daughter relationships, and the effect of time and teenagehood on friendships, against the backdrop of Singapore B-movies.

Lyric, Sign, Metre Faber is pure joy for footnote freaks and those who like to get high thinking about thinking. Not so much about how to be a poet as how to be in a poem, or even be a poem, it also works as a great book about music. The book gives you an insight into the intelligent, passionate woman that Angelou undoubtedly is.

I have a really old library copy. As a Jamaican woman, that was really exciting. It follows three women: The older sister is navigating sexuality and being a queer woman, the younger is battling identity, being a darker-skinned girl, bleaching. Both are wonderful in so many ways. I came away laden with books and have already finished three of them. Holidays may be about escapism, but this fly-on-the-wall unravelling of the election is car-crash exhilarating.

Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Oneworld is a great, big, roaring Ugandan epic that follows the trials and tribulations of the Kintu clan from the s to today. My first recommendation is The Wood: It is a glorious evocation of the rhythm and dynamism of an English woodland, connecting us to a much longer timeframe: It is a book of our times, not least because it reminds us that current issues of gender, race and power have been being contested, here in incandescent and penetrating prose and poetry, since the s. I will be spending my summer break being very quiet indeed in the Kent countryside.

It maps a secret world, and made me want to live outdoors, at least for a summer. A new complete collection will be published later this month translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson. What books are you reading this summer? From Pulitzer prize-winners to Penguin classics, poetry anthologies to the latest page-turners, here are the books to take to the beach this summer Illustrations by Leon Edler If you only read one book this summer … make it this one Part one: Illustration by Leon Edler.