As usual, I’ve packed a large pile to bring when I go away for Christmas. Can’t wait to tuck in and enjoy all these books…

Magda Szabo’s The Door. The story of a couple and their mysterious housekeeper who takes over their lives.

Penelope Fitzgerald’s Innocence. A love story set in 1950s Florence amongst the penniless aristocracy.

Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me. An African American father’s letter to his 15 year old trying to make sense of  racial injustices in contemporary America.

Lily King’s Euphoria. A love triangle between three anthropologists in the jungle of New Guinea.

William Boyd’s Sweet Caress. The life of a female photographer during the 1920s in Berlin, New York in the 1930s and France during the Second World War.

Long live the rain!