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The Christmas Story: Inspiring Gifts For Bookish Types
Delight avid readers with these terrific tomes to devour this Christmas.
Books make the most wonderful gifts, and yet choosing the right volume can be tricky. Get it wrong and you may well elicit that slightly glazed smile from your unenthused recipient that says your thoughtfully chosen tome is going straight onto the shelf never to be read. But get it right, and books can be the very best present you can give, transporting readers to other worlds in which to get lost, firing imaginations and inspiring ideas.
Whether your beloveds are in the market for the latest literary fiction – think Evie Wyld’s devastatingly good The Bass Rock, or Jessie Burton’s The Confession, a triumphant follow-up to The Muse and The Miniaturist – or some cancel-all-other-plans type page-turning fiction (Nicola Rayner’s unsettling and excellent You And Me, or Harriet Tryce’s The Lies You Told), there is something in this list to provoke both thought and afternoons on the sofa with nothing but said book and endless cups of tea for company.
Our guide spans young children (a more beautiful picture book than Sophie Blackall’s Hello Lighthouse you will not find, nor a more inspiring one than the legendary Captain Tom Moore’s One Hundred Steps); to older kids, few of whom will not thank you for Hana Tooke’s marvellous The Unadoptables, or Robin Stevens’ Murder Most Unladylike swansong, Death Sets Sail; right through to the best in cookery, coffee table and design books. And then, of course, there is non-fiction, in the imperative form of both David Attenborough and Barack Obama’s latest releases, amongst others.
Why not grab a coffee, have a peruse and line up your literary Christmas purchases, whether for your friends and family – or just for you.
By Nancy Alsop
November 2020
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Whether your beloveds are in the market for the latest literary fiction – think Evie Wyld’s devastatingly good The Bass Rock, or Jessie Burton’s The Confession, a triumphant follow-up to The Muse and The Miniaturist – or some cancel-all-other-plans type page-turning fiction (Nicola Rayner’s unsettling and excellent You And Me, or Harriet Tryce’s The Lies You Told), there is something in this list to provoke both thought and afternoons on the sofa with nothing but said book and endless cups of tea for company.
Our guide spans young children (a more beautiful picture book than Sophie Blackall’s Hello Lighthouse you will not find, nor a more inspiring one than the legendary Captain Tom Moore’s One Hundred Steps); to older kids, few of whom will not thank you for Hana Tooke’s marvellous The Unadoptables, or Robin Stevens’ Murder Most Unladylike swansong, Death Sets Sail; right through to the best in cookery, coffee table and design books. And then, of course, there is non-fiction, in the imperative form of both David Attenborough and Barack Obama’s latest releases, amongst others.
Why not grab a coffee, have a peruse and line up your literary Christmas purchases, whether for your friends and family – or just for you.
By Nancy Alsop
November 2020
READ MORE
GWG Book Club: The Bass Rock By Evie Wyld
Book Club: The Crown In Crisis: Countdown To The Abdication
7 New Folio Society Editions We’re Seriously Excited For
8 Spellbinding Storytelling Podcasts To Get Lost In
Children
Pop Fiction
Literary Fiction
Non Fiction
Coffee Table Books
Cookery Books
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering The Elements of Good Cooking
Samin Nosrat and Wendy Macnaughton, £30
