Sunday Best (travels through the day of rest)

Sunday Best is a delightful charming and restful read (which you could enjoy on a Sunday!), asking whether we have as a society forgotten how to ‘do Sunday’. Years ago, it was the day when you went to the church, didn’t go to work, enjoy a Sunday roast and had a bath, followed by rest.

This book has the unique idea of following people around the world, looking at how they enjoy the day of rest. From closed shops and bulky newspapers to strolls to nowhere in particular (and visiting snoozing grandparents), has anything interesting ever happened on a Sunday?

And if it does, should we now try to recapture that unhurried Sunday feel, and learn once again to do nothing much at all. Through a mix of travelogue and history, the stories are told from people in the Hebrides to Hyde Parks, via Sunderland, Scarborough and the Peak District.

As light-hearted social history, it slips down as easily as the first pint of a Sunday lunchtime. And packed with pub-quiz winning nuggets of information. Times Literary Supplement

Gray writes like Lowry paints. Superb. BBC Lancashire