Holiday reading: Long form or short stories?

What to read when you are on holiday? If it is a beach get-away, with hours to lounge on a sun bed, then airport shop blockbusters or easy escapist novels come to mind.

As for myself and co-writer Jude Lennon, our holidays are spent touring in a campervan and motorhome. Here is a snippet of a recent chat we had as part of Indie Author Week UK where we discuss why short stories like our forthcoming collection ‘Stories for the Road’, (out on October 10 2026), are perfect for road travel.