Books to give as presents at Christmas
October 21, 2011 4:31 pm Book AdviceChristmas is just around the corner and it is probably time to start thinking about buying people gifts. Books are great to give at Christmas provided you steer clear of the cookery books and autobiographies that bastardise most of the high street collections on offer.
Those books just demonstrate a lack of thought. It’s far more touching to pick out a book that you think will appeal to someone’s intelligence or personal interests. Perhaps you could pick out a book you love yourself. You could even give your own copy of a favourite, lovingly dog-eared volume that a friend has always shown great interest in. This is a particularly nice gesture.
Special editions and first editions, of course, represent the greatest literary gift you can give.