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Summer's here and while everyone is busy picking beach reads and choosing summer reading lists, The Overlook Press has been shipping our brand new summer titles to bookstores all over the country. To celebrate the first weekend of the summer, we are pleased to introduce The Weekend Book: A Sociable Anthology, from the Editors of The Nonesuch Press. The follow-up to last year's popular The Week-End Book, this classic guide to indoor and outdoor week-ending offers valuable advice and instruction on everything from hosting a party and mixing cocktails to planting a garden and picking produce. Oscar-winning screenwriter and novelist Julian Fellowes explains how to be the perfect guest. Legendary adventurer and writer Rory Stewart tells us how to prepare for a long walk. All this, plus the rules for human polo, recipes for a perfect Sunday brunch, and a complete illustrated guide to that most daunting sartorial task – how to tie a bow tie. Have a great week-end!

Great notice by the book buddhas of THE WEEK-END BOOK:

Written as both advice for guests and travelers, and as a collection to entertain same, Meynell included information on star-gazing, architecture, a complex formula for finding the date of Easter Sunday in any year, periods of animal gestation and incubation, campsite equipment, a birding guide, songs and poems, and a chapter titled "The Law and How You Break It." In the Etiquette section, a piece on saying grace from Leigh Hunt exemplifies the book's eclecticism: "It is not creditable to a 'thinking people' that the two things they most thank God for should be eating and fighting . . . This is odd. Strange that we should keep our most pious transports for the lowest of our appetites and the most melancholy of our necessities!"