Christmas books

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Hi All

Can anyone recommend some good Christmas books please (for an adult)? From about December I get the urge to read festive books but haven't always been lucky with my choices! Over the last few years I read Call of the Pengiuns/Away with the Penguins which I really didn't like (not sure why I read both tbh) The Snow Child (quite liked) Christmas Carol, A Laurie Lee one and Red Bird Christmas by Fannie Flagg which I enjoyed. I am not a fan of spookiness or the Christmas-at-the -seaside-cafe/will they won't they type books. A Winter Solstice by Roasmund Pilcher is currently 99p on kindle so will buy that but I read a lot so would quite like a few to choose from....

Oh lucky! My copy, also from eBay, is a paperback but it was (and still is) in very good condition.

Yes, I felt so much for poor Josephine thrust among all these strange children and expected to make friends with them at the drop of a hat when she had next to nothing in common with them.

I always thought there was scope for a sequel there. What if Josephine and Simon had met again when they were older somewhere where they couldn’t easily avoid each other (sixth form or university perhaps) and sparked off another haunting.

I put this on the thread about children's classics and repost here for Dark Rising fans:-

I always wanted Cold Christmas to be made into a tv serialisation (like they used to do decades ago) but worried they'd get the casting wrong @CatChant !

Toby Jones! Harriet Walter! Two marks of quality. Thanks @tobee, will save that for December.

Thank you all very much indeed! Some wonderful books there - might read them myself before gift wrapping!!

Every year I re read Nigel Slater’s Christmas Chronicles. His descriptions of winter as a child and the sights, smells and food of Christmas and the season are wonderful. There are also some hilarious bits in there that I don’t think he means to be funny. It’s not the sort of book I’d ever think of getting myself but it was a present a few years ago and it’s ace!

For anyone who was interested in the Christmas Carol readlong, I have started a thread here.

I’ve been wanting to reread Come Back Lucy for a long time. It’s hard to find a copy.

Susan Hill, Lanterns across the snow. And for cat lovers Paw Tracks in the Moonlight.

I’ve been wanting to reread Come Back Lucy for a long time. It’s hard to find a copy.

I hadn't thought of Come Back Lucy as a Christmas book! I'd like to revisit it. I couldn't place it then remembered it as the book about the ghost girl, and Lucy going back in time in the old house.

@Decorhate if you look on Abe Books there are three paperback versions available in the UK for less than a fiver and all described as “very good”.

@tobee, yes! Cold Christmas would have been a marvellous one to televise, much in the style of the Come Back Lucy series. Phyllida Law was a wonderful Aunt Gwen and who can forget the beautiful Victorian house that Uncle Peter was giving a ‘70s style makeover vandalising.

@ArabeI oh yes, Come Back Lucy is very Christmassy. Carol singers, Lucy attending Christmas parties in different times (the Victorian one sounded a lot more fun) and the huge row over decorating the Christmas tree.

@CatChant Thanks, I’d not thought of searching there.

I’m currently reading A Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher. Very cosy, full of very middle class characters with no money worries!
Unchallenging but cosy, I’m loving it!

Morning all!

The read along for Charles Dickens Yeultide classic A Christmas Carol starts today.

Please come and read with us; it's going to be fun to discuss this novella and get in the Christmas mood.