airport novel

airport novel
   a book written for a person who does not read regularly
   • For the captive traveller market and considered by the literati to be unworthy of their attention:
    I've even redone some of the airport novels which made Mr Follett so rich. (Daily Telegraph, 3 July 2000)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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