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8th December 2025

Do you have any books you always read at Christmas? Last year we told you about The Dark Is Rising, by Susan Cooper. It's also a great time of year to wait for dark and read some spooky stories.

Our favourites are by M.R.James, an academic who wrote stories each Christmas for his friends, now collected in Penguin Books. There are also some great adaptations of them by the BBC, who did a whole series of them in the 1970s, recently revitalised by Mark Gatiss.


We also like a new series of books from Profile Books, edited by Cecily Gayford, where she collects together Golden Age detective stories (Allingham, Christie etc) with a wintry theme. There's definitely no shortage of them as she is up to about 12 books by now!




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Karen Rees said…
I keep Nigel Slater's Christmas Chronicles beside the bed from the start of November. I get all misty eyed when he recounts his visits to Vienna. A quick pop into Demel? Don't mind if I do
16 December 2025 at 20:23
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