Are you sitting comfortably? Hidden Books

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It's time 🎵🎶 well nearly, 2 hours and change until it drops. It should be 10.30.
Its my favourite time of year but as usual I will probably be useless and depend heavily on mumsnetters for help to decipher.

I searched and couldn't find another thread if there's one already up and running ill delete this.

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Quite impressed by the mix of years for these. Keeps you on your toes.
I'm irrationally annoyed when one turns out to be a book I didn't enjoy - looking at the season one.
And funny how some, bottom shelf right, despite having next to my bed for two months, aren't actually called what I think they are.

And thanks for all the clues and cheering on, I got to 8 before reading the thread, now stuck at 19 but determined!

Finally, thank you

The tree topper is indeed a one-word title. It could also be used to describe a road that runs round a city, like the M25. It's an adjective rather than a noun.

For the hair it is a non fiction book and uses a homophone.

Got it! I was indeed very close - just had to add 2 letters to my first guess.

I've realised that it will give you "nearly there" if all your letters are right but you are missing a whole word, too - I thought it was only if you were missing one or two letters.

OK, just girl (whole girl), and mug.

Laptop is a dreadful pun.

The laptop is driving me potty! I've got the "S" word I think, but just...stuck now!

I just cannot get the safe, the painting, the season books and the star books at the top of the tree!

It sounds like the S word but with an R in it. The beginning of something is the "s", like a river ...

She's not a girl, for a start, she's an adult, and it's the colour she's wearing that's important.

The mug clue is a word used in a prestigious board game to indicate what the clue says and which is also used in music. The word isn't English. One-word title.

Yes, I remember getting very cross a year or two ago when a novel turned out not to be called, as I thought, 'The Fault IS In Our Stars' but 'The Fault in Our Stars'.

It is a two word title, the S word and then a word used to how you type instructions into a computer program.

I have them all now! I didn't know the mug one was used in that game - I only know it from music.

It does actually tell you the rules for if you are nearly there, and it is different this year:

• We’ll tell you if your guess is nearly correct – including if you enter a key word that appears in the full book title (new for 2025!). But don’t forget to check your spelling!

It will only work if you have an accent from the North or the SE of England, or I think Wales. Scots and West Country, pretend you're from London. Americans, pretend you're from Boston.

The safe, the stars and the season were all from the last two maybe three years.
The season one, I'm too old to enjoy but my daughter liked.
The safe and the stars are probably in the literary fiction section.

Thanks @BookEngine I got the stars and seasons ones.

I now only need the safe and the painting. Any hints @drspouse ?

You have the first part of the safe clue, but the word 'safe' has an extra bit tagged onto it. 2024 novel. Won one big prize, shortlisted for another.

For the painting - its about where the river is

Whose tree is it?

Okay, I have managed to solve many of your clues, for which I am grateful, the only ones I did direct from the image were the tattoo and the birds, and am still stuck on hair, seasons, vegetables, food games.

Please be clunkingly obvious and do not doubt my slow-wittedness.

Thank you! I got the safe one.

Now just the painting but the clues are not helping 😬

Why can't I get the board games one?!

@suki32 what have each of the taglines got in common? They describe something. Each game has a word that means the same thing.