If you're in the mood for a bit of Christmas and winter reading, we've got lots of ideas for you, from Dickens and The Grinch to cosy Christmas crimes! Here are some suggestions.
 How the Grinch Stole Christmas Dr. Seuss |
 Box of Delights John Masefield, Quentin Blake (ill.) |
 Night Before Christmas Clement C. Moore, Eric Puybaret (Ill.) |
 The Best Christmas Present in the World Michael Morpurgo |
 Christmas in Camelot (Magic Tree House #29) Mary Pope Osborne |
 Another Night Before Christmas Carol Ann Duffy |
 Doing Christmas Sarah Garland |
 The Christmas Eve Ghost Shirley Hughes |
 Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas Read-Along Storybook and CD |
 Carol for a Corpse (A Hemlock Falls Mystery) Claudia Bishop |
 Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth (A Louie Knight Mystery #4) Malcolm Pryce |
 Finding Noel (Unabridged CD) Evans, Richard Paul (also reader) |
 Ringing in Murder (A Pennyfot Hotel Mystery) Kate Kingsbury |
 Santa Clawed (A Mrs. Murphy Mystery #17) Rita Mae Brown |
 A Week in December Sebastian Faulks |
 Body in the Sleigh (Faith Fairchild #18) Katherine Hall Page |
 Twelve Days of Christmas (Correspondance) John Julius Norwich |
 War of Gifts, A (An Ender Christmas Story) Orson Scott Card |
Christmas, Present by Jaquelyn Mitchard
Carol for Another Christmas by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
I Am Scrooge : A Zombie Story for Christmas by Adam Roberts
Coming Home ... for Christmas by Patricia Scanlan
Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories (Christmas Edition) by Tim Burton
A Christmas Journey by Brian Wildsmith
The Christmas Books by Charles Dickens
Walking Back to Happiness by Lucy Dillon
Murder Imperfect (Libby Sarjeant #7) by Lesley Cookman
The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
Hogfather (Discworld #20) by Terry Pratchett
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In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They’re too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle – an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic Ellwood – not having a clue that his best friend is in love with him, always has been. ”It was only because Gaunt knew he might die, that he could be so reckless as to kiss him.” An epic tale of the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip. // Discuss in the Modern Fiction reading group //
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It’s a classic setting: big city detective moves to a small country village for some peace and quiet, not getting much of either as he has barely unpacked when the bones of a young woman are discovered. The quiet country life that Jake Jackson envisioned is no more. Sometimes the quietest villages hide the darkest secrets… // Discuss in the Crime reading group //
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