Status: 18.12.2023, 19:00 PM
By: Sven Trautwein
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The run-up to Christmas is sometimes frenetic. To help you slow down a little, we present four warm-hearted Christmas novels.
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Quickly get the presents, then work through the list for the Christmas dinner so that nothing is forgotten. Especially in the run-up to Christmas, time seems even shorter. How nice it would be to immerse yourself in a great novel for a certain period of time and enjoy it in your favorite place. Romance and Christmas are the perfect combination that should not be neglected during this time. We present four novels that will let you enjoy the time until Christmas in one go. If you are looking for the perfect novel as a gift, you will also find it here.
Four novels that provide deceleration and a cosy atmosphere at Christmas time. © Rüdiger Wölk/Imago/Piper (Editing)
For book fans: "Winter Dreams in the Little Bookstore" by Jenny Colgan
A warm-hearted Christmas read to snuggle up and dream away. Just the thing for the cold pre-Christmas days to escape the slush and low temperatures.
Winter is approaching in Edinburgh! It's high time to dust off the baubles, bake cookies and decorate the shop windows festively – actually... Instead, the bookstore where Carmen works becomes the location of a cheesy Christmas movie, her sister dumps her out the door, and the love of her life has urgent commitments on the other side of the world. You could almost lose faith in the magic of Christmas ... But then her quirky older boss Carmen reveals a heartfelt wish that may never come true. Carmen needs all her imagination, the help of all her neighbors and friends, and her love of books to make this and many other winter dreams come true.
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Jenny Colgan "Winter Dreams in the Little Bookstore"
2023 Piper, ISBN-13 978-3-492-31912-6
Price: Paperback 13 €, 416 pages
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Christmas Magic: Sarah Morgan "Christmas Can Come"
For lovers of entangled family relationships, coupled with Christmas and a great story, "Christmas can come" is just right. Fans of Stacey Ballis or Jojo Moyes will get their money's worth with Sarah Morgan's Christmas novel.
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The Miller family's Christmas celebration is legendary – a perfect celebration that advertising specialist Lucy has only read about until now. Until now. Because this year she has to win Ross Miller for a new contract. And because he doesn't answer her calls, she wants to interrupt the family preparations, get Ross' signature, and then disappear before her envy of the grandiose family becomes too strong. But things all turn out differently because the Millers mistake her for Ross' new girlfriend...
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Sarah Morgan "Christmas can come"
2023 Harper Collins, ISBN-13 978-3-365-00406-7
Price: Paperback 16 €, 415 pages
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Perfeke Entertainment: Tess Gunty "Rabbit Hutch"
A debut novel with great ideas even outside of Christmas. As a reader, you wish for more of it, even if it's not set directly during the Christmas season. The writing style and the plot are a lot of fun to dive into the story and enjoy the humorous snapshots.
The ethereal blonde, who has developed an obsession with Hildegard von Bingen and seems to have fallen through the cracks, lives separated from her quirky neighbors only by the thin walls of a shabby apartment complex in a former industrial town in Indiana: a woman who writes obituaries online, a young mother with a dark secret, and someone who single-handedly wages a campaign against rodents. Welcome to the Rabbit Hutch. A novel about the American Rust Belt and its inhabitants, who are by no means to be lumped together, as one might mistakenly assume.
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Tess Gunty "Rabbit Hutch"
2023 KiWi, ISBN-13 978-3-462-00300-0
Price: Hardcover €25, e-book €6.49, 416 pages (may vary in format)
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Christmas Thriller "The Thursday Murder Club or A Devil Always Dies Last"
Richard Osman is no stranger to the crime fiction market. The British author has conquered a market with the murder club series about the aging residents of a retirement home and is on the bestseller list after every new title. The "Thursday Murder Club" is the biggest British book success since Harry Potter. The murder of Kulesh Shamar in his vehicle immediately triggers an investigation by the Thursday Murder Club. Kuldesh was a close confidant of Stephen. Could a failed drug deal have been the trigger? And who could have done such a thing to Kuldesh? Where are the drugs hidden? The mysterious case once again invites you to guess along and provides the perfect murder mystery atmosphere before Christmas.
Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim wished for a year without murder for Christmas, but only a short time later the pious wish is gone. Antiques dealer Kuldesh Shamar was killed. It seems that he was involved in a drug deal. But there is no trace of the valuable package he was supposed to keep. Which lures a diabolical brood of dealers, swindlers and other crooks out of their caves. And in the middle of it all: the Thursday Murder Club, more determined than ever to catch the murderer. Which raises the question for the suspects as to whether hell is not the more pleasant place after all...
Blurb/List
Richard Osman: "The Thursday Murder Club or A Devil Always Dies Last"
Translated from English by Sabine Roth
2023 List, ISBN-13 978-3-471-36051-4
Price: Paperback €17.99, E-Book €14.99, 432 pages (may vary in format)
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