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Our pick of the best books to give and receive this festive season
Claire’s Book of the Year
Painting Writing Texting
Chantal Joffe, Olivia Laing
£40.00
Painting Writing Texting explores the strange and risky process by which everyday life is converted into art. More than a record of two artists’ lives, it is an account of friendship itself, and the magical cross-pollination that can occur between words and images.
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Winner of the Booker Prize 2025
Flesh
David Szalay
£18.99
‘I don’t think I’ve read a novel that uses the white space on the page so well. It’s as if the author, David Szalay, is inviting the reader to fill the space, to observe – almost to create – the character with him. The writing is spare and that is its great strength. Every word matters; the spaces between the words matter. The book is about living, and the strangeness of living and, as we read, as we turn the pages, we’re glad we’re alive and reading – experiencing – this extraordinary, singular novel.’ – Roddy Doyle, chair of judges for the Booker Prize 2025
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David’s Book of the Year
Augustus The Strong
Tim Blanning
£12.99
From the acclaimed author of The Pursuit of Glory and Frederick the Great, a riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of 18th-century Poland and Saxony - and his catastrophic reign.
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