8 brilliant books for Christmas
These are the best festive reads recommended by your favourite TV and radio broadcasters
- Radio Times Staff
Published: Saturday, 26 November 2016 at 9:00 am
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Chris Packham - Autumnwatch presenter
The books I want for Christmas
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari, £20.30 (inc p&p)
All I want to read at Christmas is something to trip me up, to make me think – something that I won’t stop telling people about for months. I like to be startled or stabbed emotionally so I’m hoping this will do all that. Harari wrote the excellent Sapiens, which I couldn’t stop thinking about for ages.
Night of Fire by Colin Thubron (£14.85, incl p&p).
Thubron is one of my favourite authors, he is a travel writer by reputation but also writes novels – 1989’s Falling was one of my favourites – so I’m keen to see if his sense of terrible romance still burns.
The book I’ll be giving
Industrial Scars by J Henry Fair (£23.80, incl p&p)
I’ll be giving this out to challenge people. It’s a collection of extraordinary and very beautiful photographs of environmental destruction, taken by an American activist. It’s the most interesting and unsettling book of the year, and is a necessary antidote to the typical natural photography book.
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