Normally you come to the Speccie Books blog, brainy bunch that you are, for high-minded literary comment. But this is August. Holiday month. A time when you simply can’t be fagged with the latest trends in Proustian scholarship. The only French words you want to hear at the moment are ‘Ambre Solaire’. What you really want from the blog right now is an utterly mind-blowing book-based trick which will amaze the friends you’re sharing that Dorset holiday cottage with. A genuinely astonishing piece of mentalism that’ll have them scratching their heads like Horrid Henry in front of the nit nurse. Well, here it comes.
Get your friend to choose any two of the books in the cottage (or house, or flat, or wherever you happen to be at the time. The effect is particularly stunning if you perform it in a bookshop).
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