OES a normal summer see a spike in bookshop sales because of holiday reading? If so, it would largely affect the paperback trade, although perhaps not those oversized tomes that were the publishing fashion a little while back. Will a holiday spike have been apparent at all this year, when the state of British beaches made them less than appealing and, if one could get to a foreign one, any books would probably have been lost with the bags? Nevertheless, the summer has seen an increased volume of book and manuscript auctions around the country. Not, perhaps, sources of holiday reading, but
