Tea or Books? #9: buy or borrow and Christmas books: yes or no?

  Welcome to a festive edition of ‘Tea or Books?’ (and another one where I forgot to close my bedroom window when recording) – Rachel (Book Snob) and I discuss buying vs borrowing and whether or not we read specifically

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Welcome to a festive edition of ‘Tea or Books?’ (and another one where I forgot to close my bedroom window when recording) – Rachel (Book Snob) and I discuss buying vs borrowing and whether or not we read specifically Christmas books. The second part was sort of suggested by Samantha or A Musical Feast (in that I intended to do a blog post about Christmas reading, and accidentally did this instead.) We would love to know more of your Christmas book recommendations – please do put them in the comment section.

Rachel and I are very grateful for your support for ‘Tea or Books?’ in 2015, and we’ll be back in 2016 with more – and, as always, would love your suggestions for topics to cover.

Below are the books we chat about (or at least mention) in this episode. Happy Christmas!

Queen Camilla by Sue Townsend

The Queen and I by Sue Townsend

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamund Lehmann

The Weather in the Streets by Rosamund Lehmann

Dusty Answer by Rosamund Lehmann

The Echoing Grove by Rosamund Lehmann

The Ballad and the Source by Rosamund Lehmann

Agatha Christie

The Phantoms on the Bookshelf by Jacques Bonnet

The Making Of by Brecht Evens

Ian and Felicity by Denis Mackail

The Talking Parcel by Gerald Durrell

Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Nutcracker

The Jolly Christmas Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg

Mystery in White by J. Jefferson Farjeon

The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder

A Proper Family Christmas by Jane Gordon-Cumming

Ten Days of Christmas by G.B. Stern

Just William’s Christmas by Richmal Crompton

A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Selected Ghost Stories by M.R. James

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie

The Santa Klaus Mystery by Mavis Doriel Hay

Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay

Murder Underground by Mavis Doriel Hay

Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford

‘The First Miracle’ by Jeffrey Archer