In what’s becoming something of a yearly tradition, here are the books that some of us at Nosy Crow are giving (and hoping to receive!) this Christmas. It’s a list that seems to get longer every year – if you’ve left your Christmas shopping to the absolute last minute, there’s sure to be something here that will suit you!
Kate Wilson, Managing Director:
I have bought:
Olga Da Polga Treasury
Little Grey Rabbit Treasury
Judith Kerr Treasury
Blown Away
The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff
The Anti-Boredom Book of Brilliant Things To Do
New Feast x 2
Nigel Slater’s Kitchen Diaries 3
Scotland: A History from Earliest Times
SPQR x 2
The Road to Little Dribbling
Complete Plays of Arthur Miller
Hemmingway in Love
How to be Both
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Away by Amy Bloom
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
Jerusalem – Ottolenghi
Cities for People by Jan Gehl
Kill Chain: Drones and the Rise of High-Tech Assassins
And this doesn’t include paperbacks bought for own teenagers as stocking fillers, which I’ve stashed away and forgotten.
And have bought Rob Biddulph print and a We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Tom Bonnick, Business Development Manager and Commissioning Editor:
I’m giving…
MULTIPLE copies of Texts from Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg and the Neapolitan series by Elena Ferrante for various friends and relations
Something secret for my mum (who reads this blog)
Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith for my dad (who doesn’t read this blog)
Bizzy Bear: Christmas Helper by Benji Davies and Can You Say it Too? Jingle! Jingle! by Sebastien Braun for my 18-month-old niece, who also doesn’t read this blog
And I’d like to receive…
A Manual for Cleaning women by Lucia Berlin
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Wilful Disregard by Lena Andersson
Lynsey Walsh, Marketing Executive:
Books I’m giving –
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter to supportive sister
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari to friends facing a newly exciting 2016
Autobiography by Morrissey to Smiths loving housemate
List of the Lost by Morrissey to my enemies
Books I’m hoping to receive –
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
How to be Both by Ali Smith
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
Little Girl Lost by Drew Barrymore
Ola Gotkowska, Rights Manager:
I’m giving:
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (ha!) to my dad, who got The Cuckoo’s Calling last year. Given Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling’s history of writing long series, I think I’ll be set for gifts for my dad for the next few years – score!
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August to my brother – it’s just the right balance of brilliant writing and crazy ideas, and definitely one of the best books that I’ve read this year.
And I’d like to receive:
EVERYTHING, ALL THE BOOKS! But if that’s a bit excessive, I’ll settle for The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood, The Ecliptic by Benjamin Wood and A Modern Way to Eat by Anna Jones.
Catherine Stokes, Head of Sales and Marketing:
I have bought:
2 copies each of Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf and Polly and the Wolf Again
Railhead by Philip Reeve
Broadside: How we Regained the Ashes
An Eagle in the Snow: Morpurgo
The Churchill Factor: Boris Johnson
A Little Life
And I want:
Nigel Slater : Kitchen Diaries III
Ellie Corbett, Publishing Assistant:
I’ll be giving:
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan for my dad
The Curious Map Book by Ashley Baynton-Williams for my little brother
Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith for my granddad
(Mother and boyfriend both read the blog, so books for them must remain a secret…)
I’m hoping to receive:
A Secret History by Donna Tartt (after Tom and Ola were truly shocked and appalled that I hadn’t read it…)
Kirsty Stansfield, Head of Fiction:
Gifting:
An Island of Our Own by Sally Nicholls
The Door that Led to Where by Sally Gardner
The Glass Sentence by S E Grove
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
We are All Made of Molecules by Susan Nielsen
Hacked by Tracy Alexander
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Harry Potter Colouring Book
Lottery Boy by Michael Byrne
Fox Investigates: A Brush with Danger by Adam Frost
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
The Middle of Nowhere by Geraldine McCaughrean
Official Lego Ninjago Annual 2016
New Order by Kevin Cummins
And still the Xbox will win…
Requested:
The Wit and Wisdom of Gogglebox
Ed Bryan, Head of Apps Development: Creative:
We’ve got these for Tom, Matty and other kids in the family…
Attack of the Giant Robot Chickens
Revenge of the Giant Robot Chickens
Drawing Faces (Usborne Art Ideas)
Usborne: Gardening for Beginners
Altair Design Pattern Postcards
The Spooks Apprentice
Bear Grylls Collection
The Usborne Official Astronauts Handbook
Poo! A History of the World from the Bottom Up
Story of Dr Dolittle
Moomins Collection
Plus a few things that I’m not allowed to know about and a few that Gabrielle’s not allowed to know about.
Kitty Kennedy, Sales and Publicity Assistant:
I am giving:
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman to my mum. I read it completely by accident earlier this year and loved it. Ove reminds me quite a lot of my grandpa, so I think Mum will appreciate it too!
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley and Noonday by Pat Barker for my dad. Dad can escape from the bleak and desolate stretch of coastline where we live, to the bleak and desolate stretch of coastline in The Loney – behold the power of fiction!
We’d love to hear the books that you’re giving (and hoping to receive) this Christmas – do let us know in the comments underneath this post!
