{"id":7505,"date":"2025-01-08T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/8-festive-books-to-take-you-back-to-christmas-pretty-books\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:10:00","slug":"8-festive-books-to-take-you-back-to-christmas-pretty-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7505","title":{"rendered":"8 festive books to take you back to Christmas \u2013 Pretty Books"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Since May, I\u2019ve been in a bit of reading slump, so I didn\u2019t get to pick up any<\/em> Christmassy books before the 25th. It\u2019s a shame because they\u2019re one of my favourite <\/em>types of books, and I look forward to reading them every year. Today, I woke up to snow in Edinburgh, so I\u2019ve decided that it\u2019s not too late<\/em>! If you\u2019re looking for some festive reads yourself, here are some that I hope I get to read whilst it\u2019s still snowing. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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All I Want for Christmas<\/em> by Beth Garrod<\/h4>\n

Elle\u00a0is a social media influencer. But sometimes online attention isn\u2019t all it seems, so she decides to swap places with one of her followers for the holidays.<\/p>\n

Holly LOVES Christmas more than anything else. Nothing is going to get in the way of this year being the BEST Christmas ever\u2026 Nothing! <\/p>\n

Fat from home, will they both find all they want for Christmas?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This Time Next Year <\/em>by Sophie Cousens<\/h4>\n

Quinn and Minnie are born on New Year\u2019s Eve, in the same hospital, one minute apart.<\/p>\n

Their lives may begin together, but their worlds couldn\u2019t be more different.<\/p>\n

Thirty years later they find themselves together again in the same place, at the same time.<\/p>\n

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One Day in December <\/em>by Josie Silver<\/h4>\n

Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn\u2019t exist. But then, through a misted-up bus window one freezing day, she sees a man she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there\u2019s a moment of pure magic\u2026and then her bus drives away.<\/p>\n

Laurie thinks she\u2019ll never see the boy from the bus again. But at a party later that year, her best friend Sarah introduces her to the new love of her life. Who is, of course, the boy from the bus.<\/p>\n

Determined to let him go, Laurie gets on with her life. But what if fate has other plans?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Someday at Christmas <\/em>by Lizzie Byron<\/h4>\n

Shell Smith is a popular, larger than life make-up artist working in the beauty department at Duke & Sons, a beautiful but old-fashioned family-owned department store in her home city. While business is booming on Shell\u2019s counter, the rest of the store is threatened with closure unless their Christmas sales take a dramatic upswing.<\/p>\n

With Christmas Eve just around the corner, Shell will find herself in a race against time to save her job, save the department store and save herself from heartbreak.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Six Tales of Christmas <\/em>by Anne Marie Ryan<\/h4>\n

It\u2019s almost Christmas and snow is falling in the Cotswolds. Simon and Nora are gearing up for the festive season \u2013 but their bookshop is in trouble.<\/p>\n

Fuelled by mulled wine and mince pies, Nora and Simon hatch a plan to rouse community spirit, sending out six books to lonely villagers. The books change the recipients\u2019 lives, but is it too late to change the bookshop\u2019s fate?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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All About Us <\/em>by Tom Ellen<\/h4>\n

Ben\u2019s always loved the holidays but with his marriage to Daphne on the rocks, this year they\u2019re missing their usual magic. So when his old flame Alice gets back in touch, Ben can\u2019t help wonder: did he make the right choice all those years ago?<\/p>\n

Yet everything changes on Christmas Eve when a twinkly-eyed stranger sells Ben a mysterious watch, the hands frozen at one minute to midnight. Opening his eyes the next morning, Ben is astonished to find that he has been catapulted back to 5th December 2005: the day he first kissed Daphne, leaving Alice behind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Christmas Shopaholic <\/em>by Sophie Kinsella<\/h4>\n

Becky Brandon (n\u00e9e Bloomwood) adores Christmas. It\u2019s always the same \u2013 Mum and Dad hosting, carols playing, Mum pretending she made the Christmas pudding, and the next-door neighbours coming round for sherry in their terrible festive jumpers.<\/p>\n

But this year looks set to be different. Unable to resist the draw of craft beer and smashed avocado, Becky\u2019s parents are moving to ultra-trendy Shoreditch and have asked Becky if she\u2019ll host Christmas this year. What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Christmas Island <\/em>by Natalie Normann<\/h4>\n

Londoner Holly Greene is retreating to her brother\u2019s rustic home on an island off the coast of Norway. Only, it\u2019s the middle of winter and icy slush plus endless darkness isn\u2019t exactly the cheery, festive getaway she had imagined.<\/p>\n

Nearly stumbling off the edge of a cliff in the dark, Holly is saved by Fr\u00f8y, a yellow-eyed cat of fearsome but fluffy proportions, and his owner \u2013 grouchy, bearded recluse, Tor. Tor has his own problems to face but the inexplicable desire to leave a bag of freshly baked gingerbread men on Holly\u2019s doorstep is seriously getting in the way of his hermit routine.<\/p>\n

Call it kindness, call it Christmas, but Holly\u2019s arrival means midwinter has never looked less bleak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Christmas photography by\u00a0Emma Matthews<\/a><\/p>\n

What are some of your favourite Christmas books?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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About<\/span> Stacey<\/a><\/h5>\n

I\u2019m Stacey, a girl living in Edinburgh, Scotland (originally from London, England), who loves books, brunch, and sage green. I love to read many genres of children\u2019s, young adult and adult fiction. Pretty Books is my space on the interwebz to talk about all the things I enjoy.<\/p>\n

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