The 50 best summer reads

Don't pack literary let-downs this year. Kate Watson-Smyth offers the hottest holiday books

Kate Watson-Smyth
Saturday 11 June 2011 00:00 BST

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This week's panel:

Arifa Akbar, deputy literary editor of ‘The Independent’;

Rebecca Armstrong is the paper’s deputy features editor and crime novel aficionado;

David Miller, literary agent, whose debut novel, ‘Today’ (Atlantic Books), is out now;

Greg Eden, online content editor at Waterstone’s

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