Despairing at last of celebrity biographies, for Christmas this year the publishers have turned to… Christmas books
Christmas: A Biography
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Christmas has been all things to all people: a religious festival, a family celebration, a time of...
religion
Christmas Pudding: A Novel
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The formidable fox-hunting obsessed Lady Bobbin has put together a Christmas house party at Compton...
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A Maigret Christmas - And Other Stories
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Three seasonal stories set in Paris at Christmas, from the celebrated creator of Inspector Maigret. ...
mystery thriller
Murder in the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas Mystery
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‘A delight… An amateur sleuth to rival Miss Marple’ Guardian Mrs Bradley, sharp-eyed...
mystery thriller
An Almost Perfect Christmas
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'This book is the seasonal garnish we all need' Observer "My mother is not a foodie. But for as...
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From Monty Don’s best-selling guide to gardening principles to peeking into the plots of the rich and famous, there’s much to enjoy:
The Secret Gardeners: Britain's Creatives Reveal Their Private Sanctuaries
Victoria Summerley and Hugo Rittson-Thomas
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The Secret Gardeners is a captivating photographic portrait of the private gardening passions of 25...
The Thoughtful Gardener: An Intelligent Approach to Garden Design
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'Jinny's genius is to marry a beautiful vision to an extraordinary empathy with the landscape into...
Winter Gardens: Reinventing the Season
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Cedric Pollet is the author / photographer of the acclaimed book Bark: An Intimate Look at the...
Head Gardeners
Ambra Edwards and Charlie Hopkinson
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What is Britain's greatest contribution to world culture? Ambra Edwards suggests it is the garden....
Beth Chatto's Shade Garden: Shade-Loving Plants for Year-Round Interest
Beth Chatto and Steven Wooster
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First published as Beth Chatto's Woodland Garden by Cassell in 2002, this Pimpernel Classic edition...
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What The Economist writers wrote when they weren’t in the office:
Here Comes Trouble
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'1984 crossed with ADRIAN MOLE' Daily Mail 'SCOOP meets BORAT' TLS 'Scarily prophetic about news,...
fiction politics
Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation: The Relentless Invention of Modern India
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Today, India stands on the threshold of global dominance. And as it faces the road ahead, attention...
Politics
Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America
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Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of...
history
The Struggle for Catalonia: Rebel Politics in Spain
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In 2012 on Catalonia's National Day, the Diada, an enormous crowd calling for Catalan independence...
history politics
District VIII
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Life's tough for a Gypsy cop in Budapest. The cops don't trust you because you're a Gypsy. Your...
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From a feminist twist on Sherlock Holmes to Zadie Smith’s new essay collection, our picks for the most anticipated books of 2018 promise entertaining reads for all literary tastes.
A Study in Honor: A Novel
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Paste Magazine’s Most Anticipated 25 books of 2018 Medium’s Books We Can’t Wait to Read in...
The Incendiaries: A Novel
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Phoebe and Will meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl...
That Kind of Mother
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"That Kind of Mother dives deep into big questions about parenthood, adoption, and race: Is...
Only Human (Themis Files #3)
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We always thought the biggest threat to humanity would come from the outside. We were wrong. As...
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Animals: A Stylish Big Picture Book for All Ages
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Over 30 different animals are illustrated in striking graphic style by Ingela P Arrhenius in this...
The Lost Plot: The Invisible Library Book 4
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A covert mission A royal demand And a race against time The fourth title in Genevieve Cogman's...
Great British Bake off: Big Book of Baking
Linda Collister and Love Productions
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Bake your way through the much-loved BBC1 series with this beautiful, fully photographic cookbook of...