![]() ![]() The best new non-fiction was Sally Wise’s A Year in a Bottle, rare among practical books in that it is not only useful but also a joy to read and for once in a cookery book there are no photographs, not even of the author. ![]() How Robinson imagines her story so perfectly is a mystery. The best newish book of fiction I read this year was Marilynne Robinson’s stunning Gilead, in which an elderly minister in a small town in the American Mid-West in the 1950s sets down the story of his life for his young son. A few of our Quadrant readers and contributors have listed some of their favourite books, and some that they intend to read over Christmas. ![]() Books and Christmas seem to go together naturally and Charles Dickens certainly got the western world into the spirit of the thing with his A Christmas Carol, first published in December 1843, with fabulous illustrations by John Leech. ![]()
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