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Teenage Girl Reading at Hay-on-Wye Book Festival
A holiday's ideal for bookworming and, sometimes, reading about your destination really enhances the trip. For those of us who can't afford a holiday or are fresh out of leave, brilliant travel writing can be the next best thing. And what about bookshops? Finding a dusty, secondhand emporium or trendy gallery shop can make your day. We know Been there users are a learned lot so tell us about your favourite travel writing or bookshops, wherever they are. Send a tip about your favourite travel book, or favourite bookshop, to Been there by Monday July 14, and the tip we like best will bag a copy of Time Out's 2008 New York city guide, complete with detailed maps, independent reviews and the inside track on local culture.
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    Written by Pedro Juan Gutierrez, the book’s protagonist, during the euphemistically dubbed “Special Period” of the 1990s (when Cuba was on its knees as subsidies from the former Soviet Union dried up) this book examines the underbelly of Cuban society in unforgiving language. Sex, poverty, racism and dog-eat-dog squalor – this is a side of Havana you won’t get from the guidebooks. A tour de force.

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