Books you're hoping to receive this Christmas

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I think I might have done this thread last year

What books are you hoping to receive for Christmas 2019?

I love to get books for Christmas! What I'm always hoping for is someone giving me a book if not thought of and really get immersed in . Or indeed several!

Second to that I'd like to receive some book tokens.

Despite the fact I have a ginormous pile of books on my to read pile(s).

I think receiving/buying books is getting to be a fetish with me

I'm hoping for jenny Thompson's autobiography.

Hoping for Tombland and Big Sky ~ fairly confident that I will get both as DH asked for specific titles. Love getting a fat book for Christmas and indulgently reading it over the week between Christmas and New Year!

The Starless Sea
The Body - Bill Bryson

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

@Didiusfalco Thanks for mentioning John Crace's new book - I'll be buying it for myself this Christmas. He's fantastic!

I don’t have anybody to buy me presents… So I just had a look on I books… Some of the books mentioned here sound really interesting, I think I would like Disney twisted tales and the five. Sorry, I’m visually impaired and using dictation.

I've got The Five on Kindle, but haven't started it yet.

Hoping for Underland by Robert Macfarlane and Bill Bryson's The Body. I also asked for the Dishoom cookbook, but cheated and bought it for myself!

@ritzbiscuits oh brilliant! I hope it’s good. I might have to pick it up after Christmas if no one has bought it for me.

Olive Again & The Body please Santa (or you could always go with hand cream again)

David Mitchell's Sweet Sorrow

I got Olive Again, the Carer by Deborah Moggach and Bone China by Sarah Purcell

I didn’t get either of the books I asked for but did get The Testaments so pleased with that. I have my eye on my amazon wish list to see if any of the Kindle books on my massive wish list go on sale in the next few days!

Ha! DS does listen to me after all! He bought me book tokens.

Well I got my Skyrim cookery book and illustrated HP Goblet of Fire!

Also got the 2nd collected volume of the books within Skyrim and and Elder Scrolls novel and some Mrs Hudson Mysteries.

Very happy, I got The Salt Path, The City of Girlf, Tidal Zone - all ones I’d been dying to read and a lovely one by Cerys Matthews called Where the Wild Cooks Go with lovely recipes, poems & music playlists, just gorgeous

Rory - I have relatively recent copies of two SPSS books that are just gathering dust now my doctorate is done with. Would be very glad to off-load them if useful. Pm me for details if interested (just postage!!)

I bought myself The Country Girls Triology by Edna O’Brien. It was on Radio 4 recently, but I only caught snippets. I think I read the first volume years ago. It’s a long read, but worth it.

I usually buy from Charity Shops, world books( via eBay) or if it’s unavailable or newly published I go to my lovely, local, independent book shop.