Booked for Christmas: A Short Story

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Taking over the city centre from early November, the Frankfurt Christmas Market is the largest outside of central Europe, and is an impressive sight, with plenty of decorated stalls selling crafts, toys and other gifts as well as traditional German food and drink, including gingerbread hearts and glühwein. Once you’ve hummed along to a few tunes, hop on a tram or bus north for ten minutes to Piccadilly Gardens and Manchester’s Christmas Market. And if the book isn’t enough, its charming Netflix adaptation is also on hand to tug at your heartstrings. Then Chitra Ramaswamy’s wonderful, insightful Homelands(Canongate), the story of her friendship with Henry Wuga, a former German teenage refugee to Britain – a book that feels very pertinent to the world we now find ourselves in.Brigit’s Bakery runs Christmas Lights tours on its converted Routemaster buses, trundling through central London for 90 minutes and making a special diversion along Regent’s Street to see the lights. Hilarious, fun, and touching as ever, it’s the best book to crack open beside the fireside as a snowstorm (which may or may not also be an attack from mutant aliens, perhaps? Finally, Addie, reeling from a recent breakup, gets a message from her ex, Jeb — delivered by none other than Tobin!

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If you want your love stories to be as much about second… and third… and tenth chances as they are about love at first sight, this is the perfect book to cozy up to this holiday season. I’ve been in a reading drought, and for some reason I feel the solution might be a huge, old-fashioned family epic.In his Booker-winning latest, he has amped up all the characteristics of his debut to produce a truly astonishing piece of fiction. If you never thought a collection of crime stories could be charming, then clearly you haven’t read The Usual Santas! We’ve had to wait these many years for a novel that gives us anything like the brilliant, bawdy, tragic, hilarious voice of Karunatilaka’s debut, Chinaman. Wow your guests with a lavish spread of winter pastries, cheesy bites and our sumptuous selection of salmon nibbles, including smoked salmon éclairs and a shimmering salmon mousse.