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Holidays and travel can be the ideal time to catch up on unread journals and
magazines. But not if you’re plasma physicist Gabriella Saibene. When Saibene
takes time off from her work in Munich on the doughnut-shaped ITER fusion
reactor, she prefers Driving over Lemons, Chris Stewart’s account of
exchanging life as a drummer with Genesis for a farm in southern Spain (Sort of
Books £6.99 ISBN 0953522709). For contrast, she’s also ploughing through
On Liberty and Other Essays by John Stuart Mill (edited by John Gray,
Oxford, £2.99 ISBN 0192833847). Saibene is also among the many brave souls
to admit not having finished A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (Phoenix Press,
£9.99, ISBN 1857990889). “It weighs a ton,” she says, “and it’s made at
least four UK—Italy—UK trips.”