La Plage, from 1900, by artist Alfred-Victor Fournier - Credit: Getty Images CHARLIE CONNELLY offers his selection of perfect holiday reading, from the latest new European paperbacks I’m ready for the holidays. I’ve a clean vest ironed, a selection of handkerchiefs knotted in each corner to protect me from the sun’s harmful rays and I’ve been practising rolling up my trouser legs to mid-calf level for a couple of weeks now. This guy is, let me tell you, beach body ready. In this state of demob happiness my thoughts have travelled via brown ale, whelks and sticks of rock to beach readi...