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Festive reading chosen by our librarians

Festive Reads For You!

If you’re looking for some guaranteed good reads this festive season, do we have a treat for you! Our LiveWire librarians have got their heads together to design a list of perfect books for everyone in the family this year.

So, if you want to escape to another world while the busyness of the winter season carries on around you, then check out our recommendations for your To-Be-Read (TBR) list.

Twelve Days of Christmas by Tricia Astley12 star

A Christmas Feast: and other stories by Katie Fforde

A Perfect Cornish Christmas by Phillipa Ashley

Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Mitford Secret: Deborah Mitford and the Chatsworth Mystery by Jessica Fellowes

After the Party by Georgina Lees

The Twelve Long, Hard, Topsy Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas by James Patterson and Tad Safran

The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves

Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas demon by James Lovegrove

Or something a little bit darker…12 days

The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas by Syd Moore

Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights

The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season

Mistletoe by Alison Littlewood

And something for the kids…

The night before Christmas by Clement Clarke MooreChrsiu

The Snowman by Raymond Briggs

The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher

Quentin Blake’s A Christmas Carol

With Lots of Love at Christmas: a Collection of Christmas Stories

We’ve got all these and hundreds more, ask in any Livewire Library for help choosing your Christmas reads!

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