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Books to Gift<br />
Books make great presents, especially when you can borrow them back in January…<br />
Big Panda and Tiny<br />
Dragon<br />
James Norbury<br />
Fans of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox<br />
and The Horse, and other illustrated<br />
books will love this new offering by<br />
James Norbury. Each of the handdrawn<br />
illustrations is accompanied<br />
by a short conversation between a panda and a dragon,<br />
offering words of wisdom we can all learn from. A book<br />
to treasure and to dip into time and time again.<br />
Freckles<br />
Cecilia Ahern<br />
Allegra has made a life for herself in<br />
Dublin, working as a traffic warden<br />
with a sideline as an artist’s model.<br />
She enjoys the routine and the rules,<br />
but she’s in Dublin for a reason and<br />
needs to pluck up the courage to<br />
see her mission through. A chance<br />
encounter with an angry driver makes Allegra re-evaluate<br />
her life and gives her a new purpose. A light-hearted,<br />
humorous tale with some darker undertones, Freckles is<br />
sure to appeal to a range of readers.<br />
The Exiles<br />
Christina Baker Kline<br />
Buying for a fan of historical fiction?<br />
Exiles is a solid choice. Several<br />
characters’ lives become entwined<br />
when pregnant Evangeline is<br />
sentenced to hard labour in Australia<br />
in 1840. On the ship, she meets<br />
teenage Hazel. Meanwhile, Mathinna<br />
is faced with losing her family and indigenous community<br />
when the governor and his wife decide she needs<br />
‘refining’. A rich, multi-layered story with some shocking<br />
plot twists, The Exiles is the perfect book for curling up<br />
with on Boxing Day.<br />
All In<br />
Billy Jean King<br />
Former tennis pro Billy Jean King<br />
famously defeated Bobby Riggs<br />
in what would become known as<br />
the ‘Battle of the Sexes’. Since then,<br />
King has fought many more battles,<br />
from striving to be taken seriously<br />
as a female athlete to campaigning for LGBTQ+ rights.<br />
Her long-awaited autobiography also reveals the more<br />
personal challenges King has overcome, from an eating<br />
disorder to near-bankruptcy. A must for tennis fans and<br />
autobiography lovers.<br />
Ottolenghi Test Kitchen:<br />
Shelf Love<br />
Yotam Ottolenghi and Noor Murad<br />
If you’re buying for someone who<br />
loves poring over recipe books, you<br />
can’t go wrong with Ottolenghi.<br />
For his latest book, Ottolenghi has<br />
partnered with head chef Noor<br />
Murad. The result is a book packed with recipes to help<br />
home cooks to impress with less stress. The recipes are<br />
also adaptable, so the reader can bring their own twist<br />
to a dish or use up leftovers. Just make sure the person<br />
you’re buying for promises to make you the Upside-Down<br />
Lemon, Maple and Vanilla Pudding…<br />
The Replacement<br />
Melanie Golding<br />
A delicious thriller for a reader to sink<br />
their teeth into on a cold winter’s<br />
night, The Replacement centres on<br />
Ruby and her sister, Joanna. The book<br />
starts as Ruby claims a seemingly<br />
abandoned child as her own. Soon<br />
after, police detective Joanna is called to investigate the<br />
attempted murder of Ruby’s neighbour. Elements of folk<br />
lore and mythology are woven into the story, adding a<br />
unique twist to a familiar genre.
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