What books did you get for Christmas ?

she is always good on the tv or radio

Marguerite Patten c. 1971 - I never knew how versatile a tin of mandarins could be. Heavy use of condensed milk too! But the baking is flawless.

the Bansky book sounds great ! love Marguerite Patten too

Wall & Piece - a collection of Banksy works. Brilliant.

Good Granny Recipe Book thing by Jane Fearnley. Full of good, easy cooking, a nice contrast to all the poncey ones. I have a full bookcase of cookery books in the kitchen but it's always an ancient Marguerite Patten that tells me how to make a plain toad-in-the-hole or ginger biscuit.

I got Can any mother help me? It's brilliant, just like a mumsnet of the past like you say wheely.
Also got the view from here by Joan Bakewell, started it today.

I like US magazines, CF, they're like a window onto a different world. And subscriptions are soooo cheap. I arranged a sub to Marie-Claire for my DIL and it cost me the princely sum of $3 for a year!!!!!!!! (Nb, I got her other things as well, in case you were wondering, not that Amazon has delivered them yet. )

I stock up on UK mags to take back to Nigeria as they're either unavailable or v expensive there. I often end up not reading them as I'm always saving them for a rainy day and can never judge whether it's wet enough to break them out yet.

Good grief, courtesy of MN, I've just realised that I've told a blatant LIE!!!! I received the Ladybird Book of Boys & Girls, lol!!!!!

I spent hours wallowing in nostalgia, remembering the happy days when Ladybird books encouraged us to lie on the parcel shelf of the car to make the journey pass more quickly and told us to lick batteries and wield hammers and saws to our heart's content.

But that's not a real book, is it? It's a picture book and they don't count.

I didn't get a single book this year. The last time that happenened was when I was about seven yo, I should think. Still, it's good excuse to go and treat myself in a bookshop!

From Here To Paternity

P.S. I love you

and for my birthday in a couple of days;

Mister God and Anna (all 3 books in one)

O.K
I ought to read it first since it was from little bro' and he might ask but I'll send it on after for p &p if you tell me how.

seriously, i'd love that book. i may hvae to put it on my birthday list.

meeeeeeee

From Petticoat Tails to Arbroath Smokies: Traditional Foods of Scotland

Anyone want it?

Esme Lennox was very, very good. Read that a few months ago.

How sad and pathetic am I - but with no one to buy me presents this year I took some money and raided the local Cancer Research shop. To feel good about my purchases

Have so far read Marley & Me which was fair enough, as a dog owner (till evil-ex took him away) I could relate quite a lot with it!

Am currently reading The Insider by Piers Morgan which is, like the papers he edited, a bit of fluffy nonsense but light entertainment for these dark nights. I also have an Elizabeth Gaskell book and a book on Mary Queen of Scots to get through.

Nymphadora: I enjoyed the Shakespeare one very much - but then I love Bill Bryson and would probably be happy to read his shopping lists.

Donnie: A colleague lent me "The Other Side Of The Bridge" as she loved it so much. I must admit, it didn't really do it for me but then I'm a cynical old so and so who has to "critique" everything - hope you enjoy it as much as my colleague did.

I got:
this
A book about the Suffragettes
A book about the Man In The Ice and a book about the Egyptians.
No novels, unfortunately but hopefully will get some for my birthday instead.

or a Cranford with glossy tv tie in cover !!

Niecie you can probably get Cranford pretty easily at the library, secondhand bookshop or as v cheap classics edition.

i got Jools Hollands autobiog, i love him.

Oh £50 book tokens! Lovely.

I got:-

a book on beading
The Mind - A Users Guide by Raj Persaud
What to do When you Want to do Everything by Barbara Sher (I think)

I was hoping for Cranford to see if the books are as amusing as the tv but the hints seem to have fallen on stony ground.

Got loads [smug grin] and then bf gave me £50voucher for Waterstones so will be out with that next week

Read Chevil beach(brilliant) yesterday , Shakepeare by
Bill Bryson(very interesting especially since I was in Stratford for a theatre weekend), Atonement(loved it), John O'Farrell history book (brilliant too!) and can't remember the rest

I got none.

Yes, count them - NONE!

I bought everyone else at least one book

The trouble with threads like this is that they provoke lists, not discussion.

I got: Driving Miss Smith by Warren Lakin (biog of late Linda Smith)
and The Wagner Clan by Jonathan Carr
and Don'ts for Wives (1913)
and an out of date Oldie magazine.

Have you seen the film of Atonement, Hulababy? If so I wonder which you will prefer.

I got Atonement, which I started reading a couple of nights ago.