This is the perfect time of year to snuggle down with a really good book in-between stuffing yourself with Christmas pudding. Here is selection of Christmas books , magazines with new recipes for you to try, to cater for even the hungry gluten free, sugar free, dairy free guests.
You can also look in our free databases to help settle those arguments faster. These are all available from your phone so if you didn't manage to make it to a branch, you will still have plenty to read. If you are going somewhere without WiFi, you can always download them to your phone before you go.
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Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas
by Stuart MacBride, 2011.
A collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season - from the No. 1 bestseller Stuart MacBride Thieves, drug dealers, lap-dancers, gangsters and even the odd good guy populate these twelve tales exploring the seedier side of life in North East Scotland.
A collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season - from the No. 1 bestseller Stuart MacBride Thieves, drug dealers, lap-dancers, gangsters and even the odd good guy populate these twelve tales exploring the seedier side of life in North East Scotland.
Copies
Overdrive: 12 Days of Winter
Overdrive: 12 Days of Winter
Crime at Christmas
by C. H. B. Kitchin, 2015.
There we were, all gathered together for a Christmas party, and plunged suddenly into gloom.' It's Christmas at Hampstead's Beresford Lodge. A group of relatives and intimate friends gather to celebrate the festive season, but their party is rudely interrupted by a violent death. It isn't long before a second body is discovered. Can the murderer be one of those in the great house? The stockbroker sleuth Malcolm Warren investigates, in this brilliantly witty mystery. 'Kitchin's knowledge of the crevices of human nature lifts his crime fiction out of the category of puzzledom and into the realm of the detective novel. He was, in short, ahead of his day.' H. R. F. Keating
by C. H. B. Kitchin, 2015.
There we were, all gathered together for a Christmas party, and plunged suddenly into gloom.' It's Christmas at Hampstead's Beresford Lodge. A group of relatives and intimate friends gather to celebrate the festive season, but their party is rudely interrupted by a violent death. It isn't long before a second body is discovered. Can the murderer be one of those in the great house? The stockbroker sleuth Malcolm Warren investigates, in this brilliantly witty mystery. 'Kitchin's knowledge of the crevices of human nature lifts his crime fiction out of the category of puzzledom and into the realm of the detective novel. He was, in short, ahead of his day.' H. R. F. Keating
Murder under the Christmas Tree
Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season by Cecily Gayford, Arthur Conan Doyle
Murder most festive... A locked room mystery solved with a flourish on Boxing Day. Blackmail on Christmas Eve. A missing jewel discovered in a very festive hiding place. A body slumped in a chair on Christmas morning, still listening to carols. The midnight theft of a gift intended for a saint. Crime doesn't take a holiday, so these - and many more - are the puzzles that make up Murder under the Christmas Tree, a collection of festive mysteries featuring fictional sleuths from Lord Peter Wimsey to Sherlock Holmes, Cadfael to Father Brown.
This is the very best of Christmas murder and mayhem - so settle into your armchair, put another log on the fire and take a bite of your mince pie. Just make sure it's not poisoned...
Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season by Cecily Gayford, Arthur Conan Doyle
Murder most festive... A locked room mystery solved with a flourish on Boxing Day. Blackmail on Christmas Eve. A missing jewel discovered in a very festive hiding place. A body slumped in a chair on Christmas morning, still listening to carols. The midnight theft of a gift intended for a saint. Crime doesn't take a holiday, so these - and many more - are the puzzles that make up Murder under the Christmas Tree, a collection of festive mysteries featuring fictional sleuths from Lord Peter Wimsey to Sherlock Holmes, Cadfael to Father Brown.
This is the very best of Christmas murder and mayhem - so settle into your armchair, put another log on the fire and take a bite of your mince pie. Just make sure it's not poisoned...
A Boy Called Christmas
by Matt Haig, 2017.
You are about to read the true story of Father Christmas. It is a story that proves that nothing is impossible. A Boy Called Christmas is a tale of adventure, snow, kidnapping, elves, more snow, and a boy called Nikolas, who isn't afraid to believe in magic. From the winner of The Smarties Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award. With enchanting illustrations by Chris Mould
by Matt Haig, 2017.
You are about to read the true story of Father Christmas. It is a story that proves that nothing is impossible. A Boy Called Christmas is a tale of adventure, snow, kidnapping, elves, more snow, and a boy called Nikolas, who isn't afraid to believe in magic. From the winner of The Smarties Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award. With enchanting illustrations by Chris Mould
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Agatha Christie,
First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding. then the discovery of a corpse in a chest. next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder. the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits. and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide. What links these five baffling cases? The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot!
First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding. then the discovery of a corpse in a chest. next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder. the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits. and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide. What links these five baffling cases? The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot!
The Girl Who Saved Christmas
Matt Haig, 2017.
If magic has a beginning, can it also have an end? When Amelia wants a wish to come true she knows just the man to ask - Father Christmas. But the magic she wants to believe in is starting to fade, and Father Christmas has more than impossible wishes to worry about. Upset elves, reindeers dropping out of the sky, angry trolls and the chance that Christmas might be cancelled. But Amelia isn't just any ordinary girl. And - as Father Christmas is going to find out - if Christmas is going to be saved, he might not be able to do it alone.
Matt Haig, 2017.
If magic has a beginning, can it also have an end? When Amelia wants a wish to come true she knows just the man to ask - Father Christmas. But the magic she wants to believe in is starting to fade, and Father Christmas has more than impossible wishes to worry about. Upset elves, reindeers dropping out of the sky, angry trolls and the chance that Christmas might be cancelled. But Amelia isn't just any ordinary girl. And - as Father Christmas is going to find out - if Christmas is going to be saved, he might not be able to do it alone.
Christmas Chronicles
The Notes, Stories and Essential Recipes for Midwinter Nigel Slater,2017.
The Christmas Chronicles' is the story of Nigel Slater's love for winter, the scent of fir and spruce, ghost stories read with a glass of sloe gin, and beeswax candles with shadows dancing on the ceiling. With recipes, decorations, fables and quick fireside suppers, Nigel guides you through the essential preparations for Christmas and the New Year, with everything you need to enjoy the winter months. Taking you from 1 November all the way to the end of January, 'The Christmas Chronicles' covers everything from Bonfire Night, Christmas and New Year to Epiphany. Throughout the season, Nigel offers over 100 recipes to see you through the build-up, the celebrations and the aftermath.
The Notes, Stories and Essential Recipes for Midwinter Nigel Slater,2017.
The Christmas Chronicles' is the story of Nigel Slater's love for winter, the scent of fir and spruce, ghost stories read with a glass of sloe gin, and beeswax candles with shadows dancing on the ceiling. With recipes, decorations, fables and quick fireside suppers, Nigel guides you through the essential preparations for Christmas and the New Year, with everything you need to enjoy the winter months. Taking you from 1 November all the way to the end of January, 'The Christmas Chronicles' covers everything from Bonfire Night, Christmas and New Year to Epiphany. Throughout the season, Nigel offers over 100 recipes to see you through the build-up, the celebrations and the aftermath.
Father Christmas and Me
By Matt Haig, 2018.
It isn't always easy, growing up as a human in Elfhelm, even if your adoptive parents are the newly married Father Christmas and Mary Christmas. For one thing, Elf School can be annoying when you have to sing Christmas songs every day - even in July - and when you fail all your toy-making tests. Also it can get very, very cold. But when the jealous Easter Bunny and his rabbit army launch an attack to stop Christmas, it's up to Amelia, her new family and the elves to keep Christmas alive. Before it's too late.
By Matt Haig, 2018.
It isn't always easy, growing up as a human in Elfhelm, even if your adoptive parents are the newly married Father Christmas and Mary Christmas. For one thing, Elf School can be annoying when you have to sing Christmas songs every day - even in July - and when you fail all your toy-making tests. Also it can get very, very cold. But when the jealous Easter Bunny and his rabbit army launch an attack to stop Christmas, it's up to Amelia, her new family and the elves to keep Christmas alive. Before it's too late.
Ghost of Christmas Paws
By Mandy Morton, 2016.
It's a week before Christmas and Hettie and Tilly set out on a very dangerous case for The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency. Lady Eloise Crabstock-Singe has summoned them to Crabstock Manor in the village of Porthladle on the Cornish Coast to solve the mystery of Christmas Paws, a servant cat who haunts the Manor intent on killing off all the Crabstocks. Should they put their trust in Absalom and Lamorna Tweek? Will Saffron Bunn's cooking get any better? And what is Evergreen Flinch searching for? Through blizzard and storm, stranded on the notorious Bodkin Moor and laid up at Jam Makers Inn will Hettie and Tilly save the day and get home in time for Christmas dinner?
By Mandy Morton, 2016.
It's a week before Christmas and Hettie and Tilly set out on a very dangerous case for The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency. Lady Eloise Crabstock-Singe has summoned them to Crabstock Manor in the village of Porthladle on the Cornish Coast to solve the mystery of Christmas Paws, a servant cat who haunts the Manor intent on killing off all the Crabstocks. Should they put their trust in Absalom and Lamorna Tweek? Will Saffron Bunn's cooking get any better? And what is Evergreen Flinch searching for? Through blizzard and storm, stranded on the notorious Bodkin Moor and laid up at Jam Makers Inn will Hettie and Tilly save the day and get home in time for Christmas dinner?
Magazines
We have nearly 3,500 magazines titles and their back issues too through OverDrive. Find inspiration, gossip, history and learn something new with our wide selection of magazines. Browse your library's collection of popular magazine titles with no holds, no checkout periods, and no limit to the number of magazines you can download. This service is available through a computer as well as through an app you can download to your phone or tablet.
Food Magazines
All that time off from work, why not try some baking projects? We have over 70 magazines on every aspect of cooking Many featuring seasonal dishes, wines, festive makes and bakes, edible gifts and Christmas foods.
All that time off from work, why not try some baking projects? We have over 70 magazines on every aspect of cooking Many featuring seasonal dishes, wines, festive makes and bakes, edible gifts and Christmas foods.
Craft Magazines
If you like craft magazines, we have over 45 different types of craft magazines. So any type of craft you would like to try, there's a magazine for that We have knitting, quilting, crocheting, cross stitching, sewing, embroidery and beading. If you are interested in papercraft we have magazines on cardmaking with tons of other magazines with lots of projects. Fancy making a Christmas Robot or doing someting christamassy with your Raspberry Pi?
If you like craft magazines, we have over 45 different types of craft magazines. So any type of craft you would like to try, there's a magazine for that We have knitting, quilting, crocheting, cross stitching, sewing, embroidery and beading. If you are interested in papercraft we have magazines on cardmaking with tons of other magazines with lots of projects. Fancy making a Christmas Robot or doing someting christamassy with your Raspberry Pi?
Copies
OverDrive Magazines: Craft
OverDrive Magazines: Craft
Databases
We have over 16 databases covering a wide range of topics. Don't waste time trawling through lots of questionable sites with lots of pop ups and strange advertisements. Get access to free, high quality academic papers, historical newspapers, dictionaries and biographies. All you need is your library card to get started on your research!
Oxford Reference
What's the difference between a Victorian Christmas and a modern one? How long has Christmas been celebrated for? Why are there twelve days of Christmas? What would a Christmas celebration in the middle ages be like? You can find the answers to all of these and more with your library card and a quick browse through Oxford Reference.
What's the difference between a Victorian Christmas and a modern one? How long has Christmas been celebrated for? Why are there twelve days of Christmas? What would a Christmas celebration in the middle ages be like? You can find the answers to all of these and more with your library card and a quick browse through Oxford Reference.
Credo Reference
Look in Credo Reference to read The Christmas Encyclopedia. This Encyclopedia covers key topics surrounding the cherished holiday and its traditions.
Look in Credo Reference to read The Christmas Encyclopedia. This Encyclopedia covers key topics surrounding the cherished holiday and its traditions.
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