Books!

[AD3000]

Please tell me about the books you're buying as gifts for adults. Am looking for gift inspiration for adult sons with various interests (but not sport)

I've bought the Private Eye 60 Yearbook for my nephew and the Miriam Margolyes autobiography for my mum.

I bought a lovely book from tk maxx about food culture in Tokyo. It's kind of a travel/photography book for my adult ds.
Can't remember the title though sorry!

Hello AD3000, I've bought Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell and The Lost Spells by Robert McFarlane and Jackie Morris. Both beautiful books

I'm planning to buy my dad Kings of Shanghai, by Jonathan Kaufman (history of two rival wealthy dynasties in Shanghai / Hong Kong from 30s onwards) and Woodston: The Biography of an English Farm by John Lewis Stempel

I've bought my 19 y/o dd Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell, and Galactic Hellcats by Marie Vibbert.

Buying my dh the new Gino D’Campo book - he’s been watching the TV series. Buying my sister the new Mary Berry one.

Fiction or non fiction?
Non fiction I've got Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall which was recommended kn another thread
Animal, Mineral, Vegetable by Barbara Kingsolver
And Morville Hours about landscaping a house in Shrewsbury

Considered Animals In Translation by Temple Grandin which I have read and is good

Got a good range of fiction for people too.

Non fiction please @Scout2016, sadly they hardly ever read fiction

Some great suggestions so far, thanks. And some I fancy for myself too!

What are the 'various interests', OP?

Dave Grohl and Bob Mortimer autobiographies for DH. All other books I've bought (or received) have been fiction.

Freakonomics is fantastic if not read?

Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin (Francis Spufford)
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Michael Chabon)
Cracking Anatomy (The Incredible Biology of You)
The Secrets of Wishtide (a mystery) (Kate Saunders)
Prime Minister Priti: And other things that never happened (alternate history)
Beautiful Botanical Embroidery: 30 exquisite nature-inspired designs for stitching onto bags, buttons, cushions and more
Who, or Why, or Which, or What...?: A Global Gazetteer of the Instructive and Strange (John Oldale)
... ooh, Galactic Hellcats looks good!

Oh the new Shackleton biography - looks amazing.

And another vote for freakonomics, that was great

I've just bought "there is nothing for you here" by Fiona Hill as a gift for someone. I haven't read it myself but they really want to.

Interests include history, philosophy, films, politics, popular type science, music, religion and some biographies. No interest in sport, fiction, poetry, celebrity stuff.
Thanks for sharing ideas will definitely be buying some

A male relative asked me for:

Jeremy Clarkson, Diddly squat – a year on the farm
Matt Baker, A year on our farm – how the countryside made me
Guy Martin, Dead men don’t tell tales

Clive Thomas, I think I got away with it

Ned Palmer, A Cheesemonger's History of the British Isles, went down well in a previous year.

Henry Marsh - Do No Harm
Caroline Criado-Perez- Invisible Women
Helena Kennedy- Misjustice
Katherine Marcel- Mother of Invention

@AllTheOtherCats

Hello AD3000, I've bought Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell and The Lost Spells by Robert McFarlane and Jackie Morris. Both beautiful books

Ooo just got the snow book. Thank you

Paul Lewis and Rob Evans- undercover about secret police
David Nott - War Doctor
Julia Shaw - The Memory Illusion

The man who mistook his wife for a hat or others by Oliver Sacks

Less we written but I found worth reading
Paul Britton- Jigsaw Man

Doing in bits as typed loads then lost it!

Politics wise I have enjoyed Chris Mullins and Jess Phillips. Got Shirley Williams but not read yet.

Akala- Natives
Nova Reid - Good Ally

The Armchair General for my brother (DH wants it for his birthday too)

Sinead O'Connor autobiography - I've heard great things about it

The devil you know - Gwen Adshead, Eileen Horne

Bill Brewster- last night a dj saved my life
Helen Lewis- difficult women

Guessing they have read Jon Ronson? His is less serious.
Have enjoyed autobiographies of Skin, Nina Simone, Patti Smith and Benjamin Zephaniah

John Harris - Britpop
Lee Lawrence - The Louder I Will Sing

Something by Mark Kermode

Dave Grohl The Storyteller
John Carreyou Bad Blood (it’s about Theranos)
Anything by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Your Mother’s Tongue

Not sure re Jon Ronson @Scout2016, good call if not, will check bookcases.

Thanks again for for all the ideas, lots to go at that I wouldn't have thought of on my own.