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

by Harriet Lane (£20, HB, Orion) What lies beneath the image we construct of ourselves? Ruth, newly divorced and drifting as her daughter leaves home, feels invisible – until Sookie, her dazzling form

By Agatha Christie. Harper Estates, HB, £14.99 When the Christmas prep is finally done, curl up and lose yourself in a classic mystery from the queen of crime, Agatha Christie. In a snowbound house on

THE Janus Inn’s sign swung ominously in the gathering wind as Mairi and her bundle stood outside. Waiting for the coachman to appear, she looked towards the stout, ancient building, glad of the carous

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