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12 Days of Christmas: Day 2 – The Expo Files
The second day of (our) Christmas! We take it you’ve already bought Alex for all the family after yesterday’s post – well, all the family that won’t get nightmares . . . Now, let Mark explain why an...
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 4 – Bed of Nails
The fourth day of Christmas. We’ve given you thrills. We’ve given you passion. We’ve given you one of the most important books of the year. But now for something that combines all three – a crime...
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 5 – Russian Stories
For our fifth book of Christmas, a sub-genre that has been described as “commercial double suicide”: short fiction in translation. But this off-beat collection of Russian short stories, gathered and...
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 6 – An Armenian Sketchbook
The sixth day of Christmas brings us a book that our social media followers highlighted as one of their favourites: a charming travelogue from one of the great authors of the twentieth century....
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 7 – The Dark Angel
As well as being our seventh choice for you in this series, this next book is our last book to be published in 2013 – if you like the sound of brilliant quirky French crime fiction, buy it now here!...
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 8 – Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything
Still searching for the perfect MacLehose gift? Kathryn, an editor from the Quercus fiction list, tells us why this debut coming-of-age novel is her MacLehose pick of the year. SOMEDAY WE’LL TELL EACH...
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 9 – The Book of Legendary Lands
We’re into the final stretch of our Christmas picks. You can be letting us know in the comments what your thoughts are, but in the meantime, how’s this for a sumptuous masterpiece from one of the...
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 10 – An Englishman in Madrid
Our tenth Christmas pick is a multi-award-winning Spanish novel that has been described as a “funny, gripping and perfectly balanced blend of P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene”. Which is...
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 11 – A Naked Singularity
We’re approaching the end of our Books of the Year, but we’ve saved two of the best until last. First up, a wonderful debut novel that we’re all crazy about: Quercus editor Katie Gordon explains why A...
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 12 – Olivier
It’s our final day of Christmas, and finally we come to the book that everyone seems to agree is a Book of the Year. The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and the Sunday Times have all praised to the...
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