✩Jaffareadstoo Reads of the Year ~ 2024✩

It's that time of year when I highlight those books which have made  lasting impression on me 

I hope you find something that inspires you to get lost a good book

✩These were my Featured Books of the Month in 2024✩

 

 

 

 

 

✩I thought these books were pretty special too✩

 

 

 

 

  

 
 

 

 

Huge thanks to all of these talented authors for taking me on 

the most amazing journeys during 2024

 and for sharing the gift of your imagination with me.

 

 

🌟Jaffareadstoo 12 in 12 ~ 2024🌟

 As the end of my reading year approaches

Here are my much anticipated 12 in 12

📖 Twelve authors who were new to me:

1. Alice McIlroy - The Glass Woman
2. Sally Keeble - Freeborn Girls
3. A.K.Blakemore - The Glutton
4. Joanna Tovey - The Little Penguin Bookshop
5. Jessica Moor - Hold Back the Night
6. Cara Reinhard - The Wife at the Window
7. Natasha Sammons - Before She Fell
8. G.D.Wright - After the Storm
9. Karen King - The Girl Next Door
10. Nicole Swengley - The Portrait Girl
11. Henry Porter - The Enigma Girl
12. Louise Davidson - The Fortunes of Olivia Richmond

📖 Twelve authors I have read before:

1. Nancy Revell - The Widow’s Choice
2. Lesley Pearse - The Long and Winding Road
3. Alison Morton - EXSILIUM 
4. Rosie  Clarke - Dangerous Times in Dressmaker’s Alley
5. Sarah Mallory - Wed in Haste to the Duke
6. Michael E Wills - Trouble
7. Jo Bartlett - A Found Family at the Cornish Country Hospital 
8. Ava Glass - The Trap
9. Laura Wilkinson - That Night in New York
10. A Lady’s Lesson in Scandal - Darcy McGuire
11. Daisy O’Shea - The Irish Family Secret
12. Julie Caplin - A Little Place in Prague

📖 Twelve books from authors I know will never let me down:

1. The Widows Choice - Nancy Revell
2. The Daughters of Mersey Square - Pam Howes
3. The Summer of Lies - Louise Douglas
4. The Teashop Girls at War - Elaine Everest 
5. The Split - S E Lynes
6. The Ghost of Seagull Cottage - Anne Allen
7. You, Me Her - Sue Watson
8. The Butterfly Garden - Rachel Burton
9. The Figurine - Victoria Hislop
10. Legacy of the Runes - Christina Courtenay
11. The  Royal Rebel - Elizabeth Chadwick 
12. The Viscount and the Thief - Emma Orchard 

🎧Twelve Audio Books I have enjoyed listening to:

1. The Dark Tide - Simon McCleave
2. The Perfumist of Paris - Alka Joshi
3. Men I’ve Loved Before - Adele Parks
4. The Outcast Dead - Ellie Griffiths
5. In Too Deep - Simon McCleave
6. The Ghost Fields - Ellie Griffiths
7. The Child - Fiona Barton
8. The Lady in Blue - Ellie Griffiths 
9. The Blackbird Oracle - Deborah Harkness 
10. The Dream Weavers - Barbara Erskine
11. Tansy Bloom, Monster Hunter - L J Weller
12. The Chalk Pit - Elly Griffiths 

📖 Twelve books with covers I particularly liked:

1. Shadows in the Ashes - Christina Courtenay
2. The Sleeping Beauties - Lucy Ashe
3. A New Dawn at Owl’s Lodge - Jessica Redland
4. The House in the Water - Victoria Darke
5. Retreat From Nuala - Harriet Steel
6. The House of the Witch - Clare Marchant
7. Uncle Digit and the Truth about Magic - Jeremy Hullah
8. The Hollywood Governess Alexandra Weston
9. The Secret Orchard - Sharon Gosling
10. Twenty Poems about Classrooms - Candlestick Press
11. The Black Loch - Peter May
12. A Winter Dictionary - Paul Anthony Jones

📖 Twelve books that took me by the hand and led me into the past:

1. A Scandalous Match - Jane Dunn 
2. The King’s Witch - Tracy Borman
3. The Human Kind - Alexander Baron
4. The Persephone Code - Julia Goulding
5. Mary I: Queen of Sorrows - Alison Weir
6. The King’s Mother - Annie Garthwaite
7. The King’s Messenger - Susanna Kearsley
8. Diva - Daisy Goodwin
9. The Last Bookshop in Prague - Helen Parusel
10. The Island Girls - Rachel Sweasey
11. The Last Princess - Ellen Alpsten
12. Wanton Troopers - Lindsey Erith

📖 Twelve books that led me into a life of crime:

1. Hangman Island - Kate Rhodes 
2. The Mistress- Valerie Keogh 
3. Nowhere to Hide - Kerri Beevis
4. The Trial - Jo Spain
5. The Drowning Isle - Simon McGleave
6. The Life Sentence - Jackie Kabler
7. Home is where the Bodies Are - Jeneva Rose
8. Whispers of the Dead - Lin Anderson 
9. Talking to Strangers - Fiona Barton
10. One Bad Apple - Jo Jakeman
11. Disturbing the Bones - Andrew Davis and Jeff Biggers
12. The Wives - Valerie Keogh

📖 Twelve Featured Books of the Month

1. The Woman on the Ledge - Ruth Mancini
2. What We Did in the Storm - Tina Baker
3. The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden
4. The Household - Stacy Halls 
5. The Lost Memories - Lorna Cook
6. The Theatre of Glass and Shadows - Anne Corlett
7. The Burial Plot - Elizabeth Macneal
8. A Little Trickerie - Rosanna Pike
9. Scandalous Women - Gill Paul
10. The Blue Hour - Paula Hawkins
11. Place of Tides - James Rebanks
12. A Secret Photographs - Jacquie Boese

📖 Twelve Feel-Good Books : 

1. Ten Poems about Hats - Candlestick Press
2. A Breath of Fresh Air - Jessica Redland 
3. The Happiest Ever After - Milly Johnson
4. A Duke of One’s Own - Emma Orchard
5. Finding Friends at the Cornish Hospital - Jo Bartlett
6. Under A Summer Skye - Sue Moorcroft 
7. Thank you, Next - Kathryn Freeman
8. Love at First Sight - Jessica Gilmore
9. Lessons in Love at the Cornish Country Hospital - Jo Bartlett
10. All Creatures Great and Small TV Tie-In 
11. A Skye Full of Stars - Sue Moorcroft 
12. A Christmas Wish on Arran - Ellie Henderson

📖 Twelve Must Read Books :

1. Secrets of Cresswell Hall - Victoria Darke
2. What We Thought We Knew - Claire Dyer 
3. The Memory of Us - Dani Atkins
4. The Porcelain Moon - Janie Chang
5. The Wild Swimmers - William Shaw
6. The Next Mrs Parrish - Liv Constantin
7. The Gathering - C J Tudor
8. We Begin at the End - Chris Whitaker
9. Love and Other Lost Things - Melissa Weisner
10. True Love - Paddy Crewe
11. The Glassmaker - Tracy Chevalier
12. The Last Bookshop in Prague - Helen Parusel

📖 Twelve books I am looking forward to reading in 2025: 

1. Famous Last Words - Gillian McAllister
2. The Queen of Fives - Alex Hay
3. The Players  - Minette Walters
4. Six Poppies -  Lisa Carter
5. The Garden - Nick Newman
6. The Weyward Duke - Katrina Kendrick
7. Nesting - Roisin O’Donnell
8. The Wolf Tree - Laura McCluskey
9. Confessions - Catherine Airey
10. Water Moon. - Samantha Sotto Yambao
11. The Homemade God- Rachel Joyce 
12. The Eights - Joanna Miller

To all the blog readers and book bloggers who support Jaffareadstoo

To all these talented authors for sharing the gift of your imagination with me and to the publishers who continue to support Jaffareadstoo.

Your books have taken me on the most wonderful armchair adventures 😊

Come back on the 31st December when I reveal my favourites in Reads of the Year 2024.

🎅 Christmas Greetings ~ 2024

Jaffareadstoo wishes you all a very Merry Christmas 

And all good wishes for 2025

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🎄Festive Book Review ~ Maybe Next Christmas by Emma Heatherington

Penguin
October 2024

Thanks to the publishers for my copy of this book

This Christmas they're strangers. Maybe next Christmas they'll fall in love...

It’s Christmas Eve and, as the snow begins to fall, Bea is at Heathrow airport, ready to return home to Ireland for the festivities.

There, she meets Ollie for the first time. They talk about everything and anything, and their connection is undeniable. But when their flight lands, they leave just as they met: strangers.

A chance encounter in London a few months later, however, sparks a chain of events neither of them could have ever imagined.

Last Christmas was just the beginning. This year will be full of surprises.

And next Christmas may be the one that changes everything...

🎄 My Review..

Bea and Ollie meet when their flight home to Ireland for Christmas is delayed. These two strangers, although having met in unusual circumstances, find a shared connection but unfortunately it may well be the right place, however, it’s certainly not the right time for a relationship to go any further. What then follows is a delightful story which follows both Bea and Ollie as they go about their lives and yet neither forgets the other and the endless possibilities of something which could have been beautiful. 

I’ve been quite enchanted by Bea and Ollie and invested so much emotionally in each of their characters and followed their individual stories with real enthusiasm. Such is the power of the story that it kept me turning the pages long after I should have stopped reading to do something else. There is an element of will, they won’t they about the story but ultimately I hoped that this two lovely characters would get the happy ending they each deserved. The author writes beautifully and creates time and place really well, I could imagine the hustle and bustle of Bea’s London life juxtaposed against the peace and tranquillity of Ollie’s rural Ireland. 

An absolute delight to read from start to finish Maybe Next Christmas concludes my festive reading for 2024 and what a lovely way to finish.

About The Author 

Emma Heatherington is the Irish Times and international best-selling author of fifteen novels, including UK Number One Ebook THIS CHRISTMAS, as well as Amazon Top 10 and USA Kindle hits THE LEGACY OF LUCY HARTE, ONE MORE DAY, THE PROMISE and SECRETS IN THE SNOW.

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📖 Book Review ~ Almanac :Twelve Poems for 2025 from Candlestick Press

Candlestick press
 September 2024

My thanks to the publisher for my copy of the pamphlet

We begin on Exmoor and end with a frosted window in this glorious addition to our ever-popular series of Almanacs. On the way, we encounter wild roses and pipistrelle bats, the green-god Lud and “violet lightnings” during a summer storm.

The twelve poems take us through the year, noticing the particular things that make each month unique and precious. Spring is heralded in a delicious poem that relishes the rhymes and sound-patterns of the year’s most vibrant season:

“Slithery, withery Winter’s away!

Here comes dawny, yawny Spring sunrays,

rooty, shooty, tooty daffodils bright,

buttery, fluttery, butterflies light…”

from ‘Here Comes Spring’ by Linda Middleton

What could be better than starting each month with a poem? We hope this beguiling selection will help you to do just that.

Poems by David Clarke, Jane Clarke, Olga Dermott-Bond, Fiona Dignan, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Marie-Louise Eyres, Kerry Hardie, Mark Haworth-Booth, George Meredith, Linda Middleton, Angela Readman and Sara Teasdale.

Cover illustration by Laura Boswell.

📖 My Review…

I always get excited by an Almanac and Candlestick Press have just published their fourth Almanac which is available now for the coming year and is perfect as the nights begin to draw in and we go forward into winter. It makes for a cosy read, tucked up by the fire, with a cup of hot chocolate.

We start the year in January with a walk on Exmoor, a place I’ve never visited but Mark Haworth-Booth brings the place alive in his poem A January walk on Exmoor.

Flipping ahead to my birth month I find 10:58am in November, a poem by Angela Readman

Morning peers over their shifting boulder to say

See, isn’t this worth giving praise? Getting dressed?’

Each month is represented in a poem which reflects something about our observation of the natural world which serves to remind us of our close connection to nature. With its colourful cover, Almanac 2025 is a perfect read as the old year slips away or as a celebration of the new year ahead. It’s a lovely keepsake and something to dip into at the start of each new month, and is a perfect Christmas or New Year gift instead of a card for someone who enjoys beautifully written poetry, or if, like me, they love an Almanac.

 

About the Publisher

Candlestick Press is a small, independent press publishing sumptuously produced poetry pamphlets that serve as a wonderful alternative to a greetings card, with matching envelopes and bookmarks left blank for your message. Their subjects include Mountains, Clouds, Walking, Birds, Wine and Happiness. Candlestick Press pamphlets are stocked by chain and independent bookshops, galleries and garden centres nationwide and available to order online.

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🎄Festive Book Review ~ Christmas at the Little Paris Hotel by Rebecca Raisin

Boldwood Books
 September 2024

Thanks to the publisher for my copy of this book

Turn a tumbledown Paris hotel into a perfect boutique, bookish retreat, and have it open for Christmas? What could possibly go wrong?

When Anais receives a near-derelict Paris hotel in her divorce settlement, her first thought is to tidy it up and sell it immediately. All she wants is to move on and forget her disaster of a marriage ever happened.

But selling it proves impossible, so she has only one option: to make it gorgeous and open by Christmas… when her funds will almost certainly run out.

She’s not counting on the grumpy American bar-owner next door, Noah, coming and interfering at every moment though. Nor is she expecting to find a mysterious room – which holds the key to a one-hundred-year-old secret – about a woman who chose love against the odds.

One thing’s for sure… as the fairy lights twinkle all over the city of lights and the first snowflakes start to fall… this will be a Christmas in Paris to remember.

🎄My Review..

After her disastrous marriage ended, romance writer, Anais and her cousin Manon, start to renovate a run down Paris hotel which Anais received as part of her divorce settlement. Noah, the American bar owner, who lives next door to the hotel seems resistant to the changes going on however, once the hotel starts to reveal its secrets both Noah and Anais get inextricably drawn into the literary secrets of  this mysterious hotel.

This is a lovely story with likeable characters who just make you smile, especially Manon, who is a feisty empowered woman who gets things done. The burgeoning relationship between Anais and Noah adds a lovely will they, won't they element which is fascinating to observe. As the story moves on I couldn't help but be drawn into the mystery which surrounds the hotel, but not only that, it's also a way of exploring some of the literary connections within the city of Paris, which the author describes so well. I have really enjoyed all the excitement of seeing this quirky, boutique hotel come back to life and loved unravelling all the literary references which help to make the story all the more memorable. 

Christmas at the Little Paris Hotel is a little bit of festive magic and is the perfect pick-me-up for the festive season.

 

About the Author

Rebecca Raisin writes heartwarming romance from her home in sunny Perth, Australia. Her heroines tend to be on the quirky side and her books are usually set in exotic locations so her readers can armchair travel any day of the week. The only downfall about writing about gorgeous heroes who have brains as well as brawn, is falling in love with them–just as well they’re fictional. Rebecca aims to write characters you can see yourself being friends with.People with big hearts who care about relationships and believe in true, once-in-a-life time love. Her new series for Boldwood will be set in Paris.

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🎄 Festive Review ~ A Book for Christmas by Selma Lagerlöf

 

Penguin Press

7 November 2024

Thanks to the publishers for the opportunity to read this book

An enchanting selection of Christmas tales by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish national treasure – now available in English for the first time

‘But what shall I do on Christmas night if nobody has given me a book?’

A little girl receives a gift to treasure; the creatures of the forest gather to celebrate the New Year; an evil noblewoman schemes against her beautiful niece; a cantankerous gravedigger dines with an unexpected companion on Christmas Eve…

In this enchanting selection of winter stories, now available in English for the first time, the beloved writer Selma Lagerlöf weaves together magic and miracles, Swedish folklore and timeless fables, darkness and light, heartfelt joy and festive wonder.

Translated by Sarah Death, Peter Graves and Linda Schenck

🎄My Review..

This charming anthology of nine Swedish stories brings all the magic of a long ago Christmas. Perfectly capturing the early twentieth century each self contained short story is a delight to read. Some recreate so beautifully like, in A Book for Christmas, the joyful anticipation of receiving a book to read on Christmas Eve, whilst Redbreast shares a poignant Christian message of how the Robin finally got his redbreast. Not all the stories are particularly festive but they all gel together so beautifully that it didn’t detract from the overall effect.

At just ninety-six pages long, this is a little book with a big heart and I can think of nothing better than to settle down on a wintery afternoon to read this lovely book of short stories. Each of the stories have a message which I think is in keeping with the fact that the author was once a teacher as  I can well imagine her reading these little stories to a class enraptured by the magic of her storytelling.

Complete with magic, folklore and fables this is a special book to treasure.

About the Author

Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was a teacher in a girls’ secondary school before she became a full time writer. She is known around the world for her classic children’s book The Wonderful Adventure of Wolf Holgersson and she was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in 1909.

🎄 Festive Review ~ A Lively Midwinter Murder by Katy Watson

 

Constable

November 2024

Three Dahlias Mystery #4

My thanks to the publisher for my copy of this book

First comes love... and then comes murder.

A high society Christmas Eve wedding at a secluded Scottish castle sounds like the perfect winter getaway for the three Dahlias - until a dead body wearing a wedding dress and a stolen diamond necklace turns up in the snow outside the family chapel, and the bride and groom are suddenly the prime suspects in a murder case...

🎄 My Review…

I have to own up and say that haven’t read the previous three books in this Three Dahlia’s cosy crime series so it took me a little while to get to know who was who and where they all connected, however, once I got the dynamics of the characters settled in my head, I began to gel more with the story and who doesn’t love a good fictional murder at Christmas. 

Rosalind King, Caro Hooper and Posy Starling are the trio of amateur sleuths who make up the Three Dahlias and who are attending the wedding of their friend Libby who is marrying into the family who own the magnificent Dunwick Castle in Scotland. With this high society wedding taking place at the castle and with guests arriving to enjoy the celebrations the last thing anyone needs is a dead body but never daunted by a crime scene the three Dahlias soon get cracking on trying to solve the murder/ mystery.

Overall, I thought this was an entertaining read with enough twists, turns and red herrings in the plot to keep me guessing and with interesting characters who each add a sense of mystery to the proceedings. The setting is wonderfully festive, I mean who can resist a Scottish castle at Christmas, and with more than a nod towards the golden age of crime writing, the author brings the whole thing together in a satisfying way.

A Lively Midwinter Murder is a cosy Christmas read which, I’m sure, fans of this series will love as much as the previous three books.

About the Author

Katy Watson grew up in North Wales, as part of a family of folk singers, storytellers and murder mystery addicts. An avid reader and notebook collector, her dream was to combine the two hobbies by becoming an author and, after spending her teenage years reading paperback Christies on rainy Welsh caravan holidays, it seemed inevitable that one day she'd try writing her own crime novel. It took her eight years of writing professionally - and over forty-five non-murderous books for children, teens and adults - to write her first murder mystery, The Three Dahlias, and now she's started she never wants to stop! A Lively Midwinter Murder is also publishing this Christmas in hardback.

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🎄 Festive Book Review ~ The Village Christmas Party by Sue Roberts

Bookouture
October 2024

Thanks to the publisher for my copy of this book

The smell of mulled wine fills the air as the villagers listen to carollers singing. Everyone in town is ready for the big day. But Lauren only has hours to get the community Christmas party back on track…

Thirty-four-year-old Lauren has a list for everything, especially Christmas. With her presents bought months in advance, the last thing on her checklist is the charity party she runs every year. It has to be perfect – she has seen how much the event means to the older villagers who would be alone for the holidays otherwise.

Everything is going smoothly as the local church bells ring. Until handsome Kian walks in, claiming he has the little village hall booked for his young daughter’s birthday party. Lauren nearly falls off the ladder she is using to hang fairy lights. There’s no way this is happening. Not when she’d triple-checked every detail…

As Lauren frantically tries to find another option, Kian’s insistence that she should just “relax” isn’t helping her stay merry and bright. There’s only one way to make this a festive party to remember. She has to try and work with Kian.

They clash over every detail, but as their helpers arrive, Kian’s kind and welcoming nature soothes Lauren’s shaken nerves. And his gorgeous blue eyes make her wish she’d put the mistletoe out. Until Kian mysteriously disappears.

And Lauren is left alone to keep the excitable children from running into the flaming Christmas pudding the older guests love every year. Will Kian’s chilled approach cool the celebrations? Or can Lauren and Kian put aside their differences and save the day once more?

🎄My Review..

Lauren is the type of person who you want on your side, she always gets things organised and every year she arranges the annual Christmas charity party for the older people in the village where she lives. Lauren dislikes unpredictably, she thrives on getting things done well in advance however, this year she discovers, to her dismay, that someone else has also booked the village hall for a birthday party. With her well ordered plans in disarray, Lauren must learn to compromise but that’s not going to be easy especially when she realises just who has booked the village hall.

This is great, feel-good festive read, with some lovely characters, I especially enjoyed getting to know Kian and his delightful daughter, Bella, who help to bring a heartwarming feel to the story. There’s also a strong sense of community and although there are a few ups and downs which test Lauren’s natural inclination to organise everything to the nth degree, I enjoyed watching how she copes with change and in doing so allows a little happiness into her well ordered life.

The Village Christmas Party is a light and easy read, filled with fun, friendship and a smattering of romance, it’s a great read for a quiet afternoon in the run up to Christmas. 

About the Author

Sue was born in Liverpool and moved to Lancashire as a teenager where she has lived ever since. When not busy writing, Sue spends her time with her ever growing family. She enjoys walking, cinema and travelling.

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Festive Review ~ Christmas Music: Ten Poems of Comfort and Joy from Candlestick Press

 

Candlestick Press
 September 2024

Thanks to the publisher for my copy of this pamphlet

Whether it’s ‘Jingle Bell Rock’ or ‘Away in a Manger’ we all have a song, carol or tune that heralds the arrival of the festive season. Music seems to offer a miraculous short-cut to memories of happy times.

The selection takes us on a magical journey from “frosty voices of December stars” to a band of carol-singers “with weary limb” longing to find someone who will open the door and listen. We find voices lifted at the darkest time of the year, offering their own particular light:

“After long silence, there is music again,

thin lip of moon and again bright stars,

the weeds, safe now in their coffins of ice,

in singing weather.”

from ‘In Singing Weather’ by Maggie Anderson

We hope these poems will fill your Christmas with just the right amount of comfort and joy.

Poems by Maggie Anderson, Hayden Carruth, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frances Ridley Havergal, Oliver Herford, Lorraine Mariner, Adrian Mitchell, Edwin Morgan, Christina Rossetti and Marjorie Wilson.

Cover illustration by Niki Bowers.

Donation to Our Dementia Choir.

 🎄My Review

Christmas music is so evocative, whether it be the cheery sound of 1970s pop classics being blasted out in shops or the quiet majesty of choral classics there is something really special about hearing those first few notes which herald the start of the Christmas season. When my children were small it was hearing them sing Away in  Manger in their school nativity concerts which brought a lump to my throat, now it's hearing the first ethereal sound of Kings College Choir sing Once in Royal David's City in their Christmas Eve broadcast which makes me appreciate the calming effect of Christmas music.

These ten lovely poems remind us to take time out to appreciate the joy music brings us.

From Fairytale of New York - The Pogues featuring Kirsty Macoll by Lorraine Mariner

"The only Christmas song I can listen to

Any day of the year, and when I do

I think about my father and the tin whistle

he bought for me one half-birthday

from the music shop near his office.."

From Sunshine and Shadow by Paul Laurence Dunbar

"The heigho for the flying snow!

Over the whitened roads we go

With pulses that tingle

And sleigh-bells-a-jingle

For a winter's white birds here's a cheery, heighho!"

 And my favourite Victorian poet Christina Rossetti gives us this beautiful verse:

Christmas Eve

"Christmas hath a darkness

Brighter than a blazing noon,

Christmas hath a chillness

Warmer than the heat of June

Christmas hath a beauty

Lovelier than the world can show:

For Christmas bringeth Jesus

Brought for us so low"

This magical anthology  of Christmas Music: Ten Poems of Comfort and Joy is something quite special and is a lovely 'instead of a card' keepsake which reminds us that Christmas music in all its forms brings us joy of the season. 

About the Publisher

Candlestick Press is a small, independent press publishing sumptuously produced poetry pamphlets that serve as a wonderful alternative to a greetings card, with matching envelopes and bookmarks left blank for your message. Their subjects include Mountains, Clouds, Walking, Birds, Wine and Happiness. Candlestick Press pamphlets are stocked by chain and independent bookshops, galleries and garden centres nationwide and available to order online.

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