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Sally Rooney

Beyond the clothing essentials, books were the top ranked things travellers pack for a UK staycation, beating other things such as magazines, board games and sports equipment

Here are the top 25 books we take on holiday for our summer reads

Alison Oliver and Joe Alwyn in Conversations with Friends (Picture: Enda Bowe/Element Pictures)

Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends – how we’ve become tougher on adultery

Sally Rooney, right, with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal, stars of the television adaptation of her book Normal People (Picture: Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

Sally Rooney's new novel feels like the best written of all – Laura Waddell

Nobody is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood is a novel about how the flippant, comedic language of social media dominates the mind of its protagonist (Picture: Christophe Simon/AFP via Getty Images)

A brilliant insight into meme culture's effects on the brain – Laura Waddell

The internet has been obsessed with the actor's shorts for some time now (Photo: Erik Voake/Getty Images for Hulu)

'They're just football shorts' - Normal People's Paul Mescal has reacted to the ...

Vogue called the necklace the “most erotically charged prop” on TV. (Credit: Getty Images)

Normal People star Paul Mescal is auctioning off one of his famous chains to rai...

Marianne, played by Daisy Edgar-Jones and Connell, played by Paul Mescal, in Normal People, a TV show that moved Laura Waddell to tears (Picture: Enda Bowe/BBC/Element Pictures/Hulu

Normal People gave me a moment of real lockdown catharsis – Laura Waddell

Normal People - Marianne (DAISY EDGAR JONES), Connell (PAUL MESCAL)

Normal People review: A rites of passage show that is far from normal

Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel Normal People, which sold more than 500,000 copies in the UK, was a popular hit when it was first published in 2018, and continues to gather fans today (Photo: BBC/Element Pictures/Hulu)

Here’s when Normal People by Sally Rooney is on TV - and who appears in it

Scottish poet J.O. Morgan in the running for Costa prize

The Scotsman Top Stories

Deadly cladding was identified in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Picture: PA

Minister must outline details of cladding deal with housebuilders in Holyrood

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is expected to announce the party's net zero energy strategy during a visit to Scotland's oil and gas heartland in Aberdeen next month. Picture: Robert Perry/PA

Labour plan to ban new North Sea oil and gas branded ‘pie in the sky’

Dunoon Grammar School has been hailed as a model for other schools (Picture: Dunoon Grammar School/PA Wire)

Why one secondary school is being hailed as a model for others