Books thread - what are you giving/hoping for this year?

[SatsukiKusakabe]

I thought I’d start a thread for bookworms, so we can get some suggestions!

Dh - Munich and Dictator by Robert Harris, The Dry by Jane Harper, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Ds 6 - Usborne How to Draw Comics Book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Tom Gates 7, Beano annual, Where’s Wally Set (nearly twitching on a Star Wars Encyclopedia. We use the library a lot during the year so rarely buy books except at Christmas)

Dd 4 - Disney Princess Early Readers, Winnie the Pooh Storybook Collection, Disney Annual, 10 Little Princesses, Sticker Dolly dressing Fairies and The Ugly Five/Alfie Outdoors if I twitch

Pre-teen Nieces - Philip Pullman Trilogy, Women in Science, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls

For myself I would like Hadley Freeman’s Life Moves Pretty Fast, Sylvia Plath’s Collected Letters, ...and any ideas I can steal from this thread

Logoplanter I guess it's now or never for the Enid Blyton. The Train your Dragon books will be good for years to come.

Quite a few Marjorie Blackman books this year going to nieces, nephews and assorted children aged 10-11 years.

DN is getting Billy Vunipola's book - he is a huge rugby fan.

DBIL has asked for Rick Stein's 'Mexico' cookbook.

Have also bought 'Tiny Islands' and 'Tiny Stations' for DFiL.

My 'gamble' is 'One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli and the Great Stink of 1858' for DMIL. She likes history and I suspect she will either love or hate this one!

Thanks Satsuki that's really helpful. I think I might swap them over and keep the dragon ones until his birthday. He's getting the Secret Seven set from grandparents. I've also wondered about getting him Famous Five; I always preferred them to the Secret Seven! Think I'd enjoy reading them again

That Disney Princess annual was one of the ones I was looking at. What's it like? I order pretty much everything online so it's even harder to pick!

Thanks Traviata. Will definitely change them.

I confess I didn’t have a detailed look at it in the shop - I went home and ordered it on Amazon for 3 quid. It had all the main princesses from Snow White to Rapunzel on it and came with a tiara with a picture of Belle on. It had stories and colouring etc inside I think. My dd doesn’t actually watch a lot of the films except Moana, she has a book with stories though and she loves those.