Looking for something to read, or want some ideas for last minute Christmas presents?  Our listeners have some recommendations.

Sandeep Dahiya recommends Come on Inner Peace! I Don’t Have All Day! by Sachin Garg,  Marie-Amelie Viatte suggests Falling leaves by Adeline Yen Mah and says she is currently enjoying Nelson Mandela’s autobiography,  Long Walk to Freedom.

Susie Jones says her favourite book this year was Americanah by Nigerian writer Chimananda Ngozi Adichie, while B. Hart says his best ‘read’ this year was A Delicate Truth by John Le Carre – not in book form, but as an audio book read brilliantly by the author himself.

Hot off the presses, Bernadette Sweeting says she is loving Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch (which is tipped in some circles to be the first American winner of the Booker Prize next year), and Jeff Smith was captivated by Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A life in time by Penelope Lively, described as ‘not quite a memoir. Rather, it is the view from old age.’

Some books have eternal appeal, and Robert Woodcraft says he is currently reading (or perhaps re-reading) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There  written in the 19th century by Lewis Carol, while Yoga Hoy de Lorena is recommending La Odisea by Homero (Homer’s Odyssey)

Odysseus and the Sirens

If you have any more suggestions, let us know….

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