So what books did you get for Christmas?

[JollyOldSaintNikkielas]

I got.......

Craig Brown -The Tony years
Peter Kat-The sound of laughter
Ceclia Ahern-A place called here
Roddy Doyle-Paula Spencer
Irvine Welsh-Secrets of the master chefs

Peter Kay - The sound of laughter
Gary Barlow - My Take
Detox Tips Book

I got the Tana Ramsey cookbook and the Smash Hits book. No fiction at all (got lots for my birthday in Nov). But I did get a £25 book token. Can't wait to go treating myself.

I got:
A Wayne in a Manger by Gervase Phinn
Feel : Robbie williams by Chris Heath
Brown Owls guide to life by Kate Harrison
Childhood Interrupted by Kathleen O'Malley

Lovely, Lovely, Lovely

Heat Annual
Carol Shields books - I forget the title

I quite liked Brown Owls guide to life,busybusymum

oooh i got the my guy annual! it's great!

none .

but i did take the precaution of buying myself special topics in calamity physics (marisha pessl) & black swan green (david mitchell) whilst christmas shopping .

Gordon Ramsey's Autobiography

we want real food
what are we really eating?
The Kite Runner
The red tent

last two based on recomendations on here and obtained after giving dh very clear instructions!

Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Bread and Chocolate (short stories) by Phillipa Greagory.

I wanted the David Mitchell too!

The Hundred Yen Singer by Naomi Suenaga
and The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa by Kawabata.

(I deliberately go for the slightly obscure ones the library is unlikely to buy in )

I got

The five people you meet in heaven - Mitch albon

The Boleyn Inheritance - Phillippa Gregory

The London Hanged - Peter Linebaugh

Thanks JollyOldSaintNikkielas, I am looking forward to reading it.

I am currently chuckling over "A Wayne in a Manger"

I got...
PD James - The Lighthouse
Alan Bennet - Untold Stories
From our own Correspondent
The Duff Cooper Diaries
Ethical Living
The Myway Code (pretty rubbish!)
World of Kew
and
Trees that made Britain
I had quite a bookish Christmas and I'm looking forward to reading them all (I did get some Felco secateurs as well though!)

The Devil Wears Prada

The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy

A couple of Agatha Christies - can't get over how different the books are to the David Suchet TV series!
The new Jeffry Deaver, signed by the author no less

1066 & All That - an anniversary edition with extra pics by Steven Appleby, not an enhancement IMHO (although I like his cartoons in the Guardian) but DS2 went out of his way to find one for me because he knew I'd lost my old one, so I love it

Also Alan Bennett's Untold Stories and The Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson.

None. Must be first Christmas ever that no-one's gone for the easy option with me

But I've decided I'm going to reward myself with some funny, stress-free, non-medical reading after my exam on the 10th Jan, so I'll be buying The Michael Palin Diaries and I Think The Nurses Are Stealing My Clothes, the Linda Smith book.

I usually get loads and only got one this year
.. and it was a copy of something I have read (from the library), but wanted a copy to keep!

Anyway we've just been on a special trip to Borders to compensate!

Victoria Beckhams - That extra half an inch
Trinny and Susannah - The Survival Guide
A couple of books on the Da Vinci Code
Banksey - Street Graffitti book

Angela's Ashes

A wayne in a Manger

The Thunderbolt Kid

Peter Kays Sound of Laughter

thunderbolt kid
new adrianna trigianni one.
a cookery one, but forget what it is aclled.

And the Heat annual

The dinnerlady cookbook
Trinny and Susannah book

That is it. But both children got loads - maybe 30 each so that's not bad.

Only got Grumpy Old Women - hysterical but too close to home !