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Christmassy Reading
Happy new year! Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and a pleasant start to 2023.
I have been quiet on here over the past few weeks, as I’ve been cosying up with a few books over the Christmas period. One of the things I love about this time of year is the opportunity to spend time lost in a good book. I also tend to get given books as gifts for Christmas.
Here are some of my picks of what I have been reading:
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. The definitive murder mystery tale, ten strangers are summoned to an island and find out that someone is killing them off one by one.
The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton. The sequel to Burton’s The Miniaturist. Very evocative and makes me want to go back to Amsterdam.
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The Haunting Season – a collection of ghostly short stories by Bridget Collins, Natasha Pulley, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Elizabeth Macneal, Laura Purcell, Andrew Michael Hurley, Jess Kidd, Imogen Hermes Gowar. Loved this one, just the thing for a cosy Christmas Eve!
What have you been reading over the last few weeks?
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