Every year our staff compile a list of their personal recommended reads for the Christmas holidays. Here are the titles which made the 2012 list.
Mark Haddon; The Red House
Frank Tallis; The Leibermann Papers
Jeanette Winterson; Why be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Andrew Martin; London – Overground, Underground
Mohsin Hamid; The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Yann Martel; Life of Pi
Ian Rankin series
Dorothy L Sayers; Lord Peter Wimsey
Kevin Powers; The Yellow Birds
Deborah Levy; Swimming Home
John Le Carre; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Elizabeth Bowen
Charles Dickens; A Life
Hilary Mantel; Giving up the Ghost
Peter Thurgood; History Behind the Streets of London
Anthony Kiedis; Scar Tissue
Philip Kerr; Berlin Noir Trilogy
Rupert Everett; Vanished Years
David Mitchell; A Thousand Autumns
Alice Munro; Runaway
Kathryn Stockett; The Help
Kathleen Jamie
Guy Delisle; Jerusalem
John Lancaster; Capital
Wade Davies; Into the Silence
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