What books did you get for Christmas ?

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Me -

Can Any Mother help me ? Not started yet.

Shopoholic and baby ? () Obviously read in an afternoon after our christmas guests left yesterday. Twas rubbish as expected but a bit of light relief

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Started today, am enjoying so far but is a bit sad.

I got Taste - a history of English food (or something like that)
The Verneys by Adrian Tinniswood
And in my stocking - The Putney Debates.

Expat Tenderness of Wolves is a damn fine read!

Didn't get any but just bought Chesil Beach,(half price in waterstones) havn't finished it . Really good but think it might end up depressing?? (don't tell me Nympadora!)

Oh my, you get medicine ads on TV??? Brilliant - I want to move to the US! We have advert deprivation in Nigeria as there aren't any, except for Qatar Airways and Air France (Was v disappointed on my first AF flight recently to discover they don't actually have a swimming pool on board...)

I have 'Tenderness..' on my shelf in Lagos. I can't bring myself to read it in case it's so good that I'll be left with a gaping maw in my reading matter, what with books being a rare commodity there.

I got the Anne Enright book, a guide to shopping online and the Moro East cookbook.

A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon - am reading it now and really enjoying it loads
Salmon Fishing in Yemen
Two Caravans

I love it when my dh chooses books for me, because they are never ones I would choose for myself but they are great and take me away from my safety net. He has been very successful 3 years in a row, things I would never have discovered without him.

On Chesil Beach
Shopaholic and Baby
Housewife, 49
Onion Dumb World atlas
Mrs Mills Answers All Your Questions
Heston Blumenthal cookbook

I got -
Over - Margaret Forster
Becoming Jane Austen - Jon Spence
Michael Tolliver Lives - Armistead Maupin (can't wait to read this!) and 44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith which I have just finished reading (very episodic and a bit like an Edinburgh "Tales of the City"!)

KMI - will you report back on the Armistead Maupin,please !

Austerity Britain for me (by request, but deliberately requested from my parents who "remember it very well, pre consumer society" - as their Amazon giftslip said).

People in extended family all merrily exchanging Posy Simmonds's recentest, plus cookbooks about epitomes of 70s food.

Also received Posy Simmond's latest: Tamara Drewe (modern day Far From the Madding Crowd) - lovely to read an illustrated novel!

The Gathering X 2 - good choice, obviously .

I thoroughly enjoyed The Other Side of the Bridge, - it was a Christmas present, last year.

Hello MaryAnneSingleton - thought you might be interested in the Armistead Maupin with a name like yours!! I'll let you know what I think when I've read it.

DH got two copies of the Andrew Marr book - one from my Mum, one from his Dad. What to do with the extra copy?

i got none

but bought myself martina cole - faces
for £4 in the sale at wh smiths!!

thanks KM1 - I should get it myself really !

Always get loads of books thank goodness!
This year-
Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson,about the 'surplus' generation of women after the First World War
Nella Last's War
Agent Zigzag
Trinny and Susannah's latest
The American Boy.
Wallowing in the first at the moment!

Also bought DP The Damned United which I am really looking forward to pinching.