I’ve hardly had a chance to think about Christmas, but, as you can see from my new photo gallery at the top of my site, I’m beginning to get 
into the festive mood.
I’ve compiled a list of books for my Christmas wish list, biographies are always a favourite as fact is stranger than fiction and I’m always fascinated by people’s lives, so here goes:
- Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England, by Maureen Waller
- The Life Of Kingsley Amis, by Zachary Leader
- The Letters of Jessica Mitford, edited by Peter Sussman
- Thomas Hardy - the Time-Torn Man, by Claire Tomalin
- The Duff Cooper Diaries, by John Julius Norwich
- Boris, by Andrew Gimson
- Heroes and Contemporaries, Jonathan Aitken
And a special one for the coffee table, The English Garden, by Ursula Buchan.
Reading more books was my only New Year resolution that I didn’t stick to this year, blogging was the main reason for that. Hopefully, this bundle of books will be too impossible to resist.
So what’s on your book list this Christmas? Do you have any recommendations that I might like?
P.S. I’ve just starting playing festive songs on my clarinet too, but have never been able to find the music for ‘In The Bleak Mid Winter’, if anyone has it, I would be very grateful if you could please send me a photocopy.