Christmas Gift Guide 2022: For the bookworms in your life

Posted on November 4, 2022

It’s that time of year again!

Christmas has officially arrived at Saraband HQ as we launched our Christmas shop for 2022. If you missed our previous blog post explaining each of our Christmas gifts, then you can read it here.

If you’re struggling to decide on which book or books to purchase for your loved ones this Christmas then our handy gift guide will help you make a decision.

For Stocking fillers and Secret Santas

Mistletoe Winter by Roy Dennis | Twenty Football Towns by Steve Leach | The Paper Cell by Louise Hutcheson | The Man Who Talks to Birds by Donald S Murray | Joan Smokes by Angela Meyer | Extraction to Extinction by David Howe | Skylarks with Rosie by Stephen Moss | Cold Fish Soup by Adam Farrer | A Scots Dictionary of Nature by Amanda Thomson | Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar by Olga Wojtas | Bleak by R.M. Murray

For nature lovers

Seasons of Storm and Wonder by Jim Crumley | North Country edited by Karen Lloyd | Cottongrass Summer by Roy Dennis | Lakeland Wild by Jim Crumley | Ghost Trees by Bob Gilbert | A Handbook of Scotland’s Wild Harvests by Fi Martynoga | A Handbook of Scotland’s Trees by Fi Martynoga | A Handbook of Scotland’s Coasts by Fi Martynoga

For active types

Overlander by Alan Brown | The Boxing Diaries by Marion Dunn | A Time of Birds by Helen Moat | Everything Passes, Everything Remains by Chris Dolan | Westering by Laurence Mitchell | Walking the Line by Stan L Abbott | The Garden Cure by Jan Cameron | Ring of Stone Circles by Stan L Abbott

For literature lovers

Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet | Castles from Cobwebs by J.A. Mensah | As the Women Lay Dreaming by Donald S Murray | His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet | The Call of the Cormorant by Donald S Murray | The Jewel by Catherine Czerkawska | The Walrus Mutterer by Mandy Haggith | Chinese Spring by Christopher New | Shocked Earth by Saskia Goldschmidt (translated by Antoinette Fawcett) | Emily Brontë Reappraised by Claire O’Callaghan  | Anne Brontë Reimagined by Adelle Hay | Charlotte Brontë Revisited by Sophie Franklin

For thrill seekers

The Janus Run by Douglas Skelton | Death Drop by Claire MacLeary | How to Survive Everything by Ewan Morrison | The Green Lady by Sue Lawrence | Oh Marina Girl by Graham Lironi | Mr Todd’s Reckoning by Iain Maitland | Moscow at Midnight by Sally McGrane

On the bright side of life

Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Weird Sisters by Olga Wojtas | Cold Fish Soup by Adam Farrer | The Garden Cure by Jan Cameron | Bleak by R.M. Murray

Hardbacks to treasure

Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Booker Bundle) | His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet (limited edition hardback) | Seasons of Storm and Wonder by Jim Crumley | North Country edited by Karen Lloyd | Ghost Trees by Bob Gilbert | The Mahogany Pod by Jill Hopper | Lakeland Wild by Jim Crumley | Castles from Cobwebs by J.A. Mensah (hardback)