What are you reading this festive season?

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I've Agatha Christie's Midwinter Murder on the go and Enid Blyton's Christmas book for the weekend.

I'm listening to the audiobook of The Dark us Rising after seeing so many people bang on about it year on year. It's brilliant!. Thank you all so much for banging on :-D

I'm reading this, which I picked up in the charity shop. It's the literary equivalent of a Hallmark Christmas movie and just the light and froth I need before bedtime.

I've been saving Antonia Forest's Run Away Home as a reread from long ago.

But I promised someone a fan fic as a Christmas present and I haven't written it yet!

I've just started reading Claude Choules's autobiography, The Last of the Last.

Claude was the last survivor who had served in both WW1 and WW2. The book was has been fascinating so far (I've got to where he's just finished training and has joined the Royal Navy at the age of 16). It's recent history (he was the same age as my grandparents), yet lifestyles then were so very far removed from our own.

I've got Josephine Tey's Inspector Grant stories as my audio book.

I'm currently reading 'The woman in me' - Britney Spears. Loving it so far 😁🫶

Love Katie Fford 🫶

Not Christmas based, but just because I have the time set aside to read…

On Kindle, I am reading DG Valdron's “Lexx Unauthorised” 4 volume series. A fabulous read for Lexx fans. I am really enjoying it.

I also have Konstantin Kisin's “An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West” and Vivianne Crowley's “Wild Once” on the go.

I'm also dipping in and out of the Gutenberg Project's science fiction short story section, because the night before Christmas Eve, a group of us had a story telling and reading session around the fire, and this is a treasure trove!

So far:
Francis Spufford, Cahokia Jazz (present to myself)
Somerset Maugham, Christmas Holiday (contender for least Christmassy read with 'Christmas' in the title ever 😁)
Nancy Spain, Death Goes in Skis and Nicholas Blake, Thou Shell of Death (mysteries)
Tom&Dom, The Rest is History book

Reread: Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm, The Box of Delights, Hogfather

Currently: Little Dorrit (after which I will only have 2 Dickens novels left to read for the first time)
Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

To come (gifts):
Janice Halett, The Christmas Appeal
Eva Ibbotson, A Glove Shop in Vienna
Bee Wilson, The Secret of Cooking
Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

Thank you so much for this, have just hopped onto Amazon and downloaded The Town House.

I'm reading A Terrible Kindness, and I feel like I have been reading it forever because of all the Christmas distractions.

Not Christmassy but just finished D.L.Sayers Gaudy Night and am now well into Busman's Honeymoon (same author).
Read so many times but just love them (the whole series of Lord Peter Wimsey) and they are regular favourites.