What book presents did you receive?

[LadyWithLapdog]

I haven’t received any books this Christmas. What have you received? My DC might need some hints for my birthday.

Me too! I can't wait to read them. I waited to read Fourth Wing when the hype started as I knew I'd want to read the second straight away.

Tess Gerritsen - The Spy Coast
Robert Galbraith - first 3 Comoran Strike books
Freida McFadden - The Housemaid

So excited to read them!

This is my/our Christmas haul for this year. I gave DH a shortlist of three Persephone books to choose one from, and he bought two of them 😀And the rest are sort of joint presents which we will share. Very pleased this year.

Middle waters- Ron Telford, about trawling in Grimsby in the 70s.
Jo Bartlet- Cornish Country Hospital. Just finished her Cornish midwife series.
Kevin sinfields autobiography
Tracey baines- women of fishers wharf, local book set in Grimsby in the 1920s. Read her first one expecting to hate it as its not my sort of book. Loved it.

Mine feels very low brow after the above lists! But I love this series... so bought myself the latest and gave it to DH to wrap.

Then my mother surprised me with a book voucher... she was going to buy me flowers but thought I might enjoy books more!

None. I think this is the first Christmas in my entire life that I've had none. Over forty years. It's very weird.

Oh bought me Earth, from the TVseries with Chris Packham. Lovely loads of photos and lots of fascinating geo history.

The Golem and the Djinni by Helen Wecker. Can't wait to read it over the next few weeks.

@MrsDanversGlidesAgain Winters in the World - A Journey Through the Anglo Saxon Year by Eleanor Parker.
I got this for my birthday and loved it. Have you got Marc Morris, The Anglo-Saxons? That’s a great read too.

They're so big that I'm waiting for the paperbacks.

The only book I've recieved as a present is Murdle, which scarcely counts, but I did pick up a freebie copy of Babel a couple of weeks ago, which I'm looking forward to trying.

Oh that sounded so good when he summarised it as a guest on The Rest Is History.

Lovely hauls!

Got British Railway Disasters from dp, but I also got Dadland by K Carew from a highly directed Secret Santa which I'm about to start.

Received none myself. Got my mum The Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Cespedes and my sister Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi's Purple Hibiscus. And a children's book for youngest niece who greeted it with "eeeeew - a book!"

I got one about the writing of 69 Lovesongs, which is niche but I like it

Got my mum books by Claire Kilroy and Rose Tremain, and mil the new Philippa Gregory listed above

Dp I got the Matthew Perry biography

I got some nice blank note books too

Ds got Where is Jessie by Sing and Sign and a Herve Tullet book called Let's Play

XX by Rian Hughes
Embassytown by China Mieville
The Wizard if Oz Mina Lima edition
Shaun Tan's book - name escapes me.

I also got a book spa voucher to Mr Bs Reading Emporium in Bath. Beyond excited. 😄😄😄

The 2nd and 3rd Slow Horses books.
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Bringing Back the Beaver - non fiction
A memoir by Graham Coxon

The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell, I'm going to read it before I watch the adaptation.

Lost Lanes cycling routes book.

Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami
Wayward by Emilia Hart

Our Garden Birds - Matt Sewell which I love, ds bought that for me :)

That Hampton Court book sounds great - will also look at that

Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen which I've already started and am enjoying

Ken Follett's Kingsbridge series. I've read it before when it was a trilogy but now got a set including the prequel book, and just need to order the last one.

I got my DS1 who is a 13 year old bookworm the penguin clothbound classic 1984 by George Orwell. He got me a book of daily inspirational quotes 'Here comes the Sun' because he knows I sometimes have depression and really love an enjoyable and inspirational quote.

Love this so much!!

A facsimile copy of Shakespeare's First Folio (an original would cost about £10 million!).
I'm absolutely delighted.... I almost bought one for myself a couple of months ago, but couldn't justify it.

@ShakeItChilli they are so good! I loved them both and they blew me away!

Some great suggestions on here. I like the sound of the Hampton Court book. I’ve been many times over the years, and I probably read the story in the various guide books, but this sounds like an interesting take on it. Also the fantasy books. I see one is 600+ pages long. A leap of faith to go for it, “sight unseen”, but what a payoff if it’s enjoyable. I’ll go back through the thread see what else sounds really good.