Festive fiction

by Adele Parks (£16.99, HB, HarperCollins) How far would you go to protect your family? This Christmastime, Connie is welcoming all her children home and is particularly thrilled to be meeting her dau

Our books editor Zoe West gives us her favourite picks for the month

Here are our recommendations – and yours – of what to enjoy reading this fortnight

by Patrick Ryan (£16.99, HB, Bloomsbury) Ohio. In the aftermath of World War II, a passionate moment between Cal Jenkins and Margaret Salt entangles their lives – and those of their partners – forever

Can you work out whodunnit when a woman is killed at the Little Snodbury Crime Festival?

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