Books you got for Christmas

[Turophilic]

I got Ithaca by Claire North and Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfield, about which I am very chuffed.

Hoping for The Voyage Home by Pat Barker and East by Meera Sodha from extended family over the next few days.

What did you get to increase your book mountain?

I got a set of the Moomin books - never read them!

Also a book of Medieval Cats and last, but by no means least, The Good Slug Guide!

I got quite a few books.

Inside Bridgerton
Miranda Hart biography
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and the companion book
John Boynes The Echo Chamber and the Boy at the top of the mountain
Lucinda Riley The hidden girl
Go as a river by Shelley Read

@Cornishclio I got The Echo Chamber too, hoping it’s good. I also got Poor, by Katriona O’Sullivan and a Syria cook book.

I got 2 copies of Miranda Hart!
Lynda la plant biography
Nigel slater A thousand feasts
Lad baby journey
A history of Britain in 10 enemies
Other rivers a Chinese education
A head girls difficulties
A step sister for Lorna

The last two are by Elinor M Brent Dyer who I collect.

Shadows of The Slain by Matthew Harffy, it's book ten in a series about Beobrand, a 7th century lord and warrior.

Oor Wullie/The Broons Golden Memories.

Still Game, Book 1.

Also got money to add on more books on Apple Books.

I got
Richard Osman's we solve murders.
Butter - based on a real life Japanese serial killer.
Kennedys and the wives that they destroyed.

@BebbanburgIsMine v jealous that you got the oor wuille/the broons books, may have to google it and buy it!

A collectable book of Seabiscuit. Can not wait to start reading it 😊🫶🫶🏇

Very nice Cornishclio. I got The man on a donkey by HFM Prescott because of my love of Wolf Hall. Interested to find out about the companion book.

I’m interested in hearing about the companion to Wolf Hall (other than the sequels). What is it, @Cornishclio ?

I read 'Poor' in a day. It was a very gripping read!

I bought Ds1:

A Hobbit, A Wardrobe and A Great War by Joseph Loconte

To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory from Marx to Marcuse by Carl Trueman

Which I knew he'd love, but I'd like to read them too! He was really pleased with them.

I only bought myself a journalling Bible, which is very restrained!

@lorn195

DD said she got it from Amazon, I haven't seen it in the shops anywhere.

Forgot to mention I also got the Ghosts second book, the making of the series.

Sorry @lorn195

The book is called Doon Memory Lane.

I've just settled down in my bed to read it.

Thank you. I will now go and find a copy 😊

Murder at Holly House by Denzil Meyrick from my mother. And Secret Britain by Mary Ann Ochato from DH. Should keep me going for a few days.

It is called Wolf Hall Companion by Lauren Mackay. It talks about the people, the places and the history. We have been watching the BBC drama of Wolf Hall and the Mirror and the Light and my husband thought I might find it interesting. It looks good.

Thanks! I loved Wolf Hall, I’ve read it 3 times and listened to the unabridged audiobook as well. I got slower and slower reading the final book as I didn’t want Henry to actually do it. I was far too fond of Cromwell.

I enjoy a lot of fiction set in that period but Mantel really was a cut above.

@Turophilic

I haven't read the book but usually I enjoy the books more than the TV series so will be settling down with Hilary Mantal and a glass of wine tomorrow. 😀

Cat Lady by Dawn O'Porter
Book of beginnings Sally Page
And the second and third books in the dark portal series by robin Jarvis (a series I loved as a kid and have recently rediscovered)

I got the Ghosts book too. I also got a book about Queen Mary's dolls house.

Over the Rainbow, Alex James’ book about Blur’s come back last year while also running his family farm and Feastival.

Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
Comfort Eating by Grace Dent
The Trial by Rob Rinder
Book tokens

Very happy with my gifts and the joy of getting to go book shopping for more 😌

@3kidsaremorethanenough the Wolf Hall Companion book:

https://www.batsfordbooks.com/book/wolf-hall-companion/

I got the Miranda Hart biography, Tom Parker Bowles cook book, The Brontés by Juliet Barker, The Brontés in Letters and my bestest pressie, the complete set of Barsetshire novels by Anthony Trollope in Folio Society editions (I already have the Palliser series)

I got If On A Winter's Night, A Traveller by Italo Calvino. Have read a couple of chapters, I like it so far.