Give somebody a book this Christmas!
Posted on 2012/12/06 , tagged as
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‘A book is a gift you can open again and again’ – Garrison Keillor . We completely agree, which is why we’ve compiled a selection of our best Christmas gift suggestions below. After all, what better gift than a book?
Great Operas by Michael Steen, £25
A Guide to Twenty Five of the World’s Finest Musical Experiences
From The Lives and Times of the Great Composers author Michael Steen, Great Operas is an accessible and entertaining user’s manual to making the best of an opera – whether at home or at a live performance – interspersing the key facts with erudite commentary from a man for whom opera is a lifetime’s passion.
The Science Magpie by Simon Flynn, £12.99
A hoard of fascinating facts, stories, poems, diagrams and jokes, plucked from science and its history
From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities.
Pandaemonium 1660-1886 by Humphrey Jennings, £16.99
The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers
An extraordinary history of how the human imagination experienced the Industrial Revolution.
Mark Forsyth’s Gemel Edition, £25
Brings together The Horologicon and The Etymologicon in a beautiful, stylish box set.
Roberto Mancini by Luca Caioli, £16.99
A Footballing Life: The Full Story
From the author of the bestselling Messi and Ronaldo, a revealing and very readable biography of the Manchester City manager.
Introducing Graphic Guide Box Sets, £14.99
Three box sets each containing three of our brilliant comic book-style Graphic Guides.
Britain and Ireland’s Top 100 Racehorses by Robin Oakley, £16.99
Robin Oakley, former FT racing correspondent and spectator Turf columnist, presents his top 100 racehorses.
The Dickens Dictionary by John Sutherland, £9.99
An A-Z of England’s Greatest Novelist
For fans old and new, a fascinating tour through Charles Dickens’ novels in the hands of a master critic.
The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth, £12.99
A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
An occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language, taking in monks and monkeys, film buffs and buffaloes, and explaining precisely what the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening.
Stalin’s General by Geoffrey Roberts, £25
The Life Of Georgy Zhukov
Drawing on rich new sources from the recently-opened Soviet archives, Geoffrey Roberts has fashioned the definitive, first full-scale biography of a seminal 20th century figure – Georgy Zhukov.
The Horologicon by Mark Forsyth, £12.99
A Day’s Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them.
Third Man in Havana by Tom Rodwell, £14.99
Finding the Heart of Cricket in the World’s Most Unlikely Places
When Tom Rodwell embarked on a cricketing tour of India, he had only ever thought of the game as great fun, but the simple joy of the local street kids when his team donated their kit to them made him realise that it could be more than that.
