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ADVENT CALENDAR GIVEAWAY (UK only)
2nd November 2020
🎁🎁🎁 Advent calendar giveaway 🎁🎁🎁
2020 has been a tough year so far and it doesn’t seem to be getting any easier.
So. We decided to create an Advent Calendar containing items that are book and travel related, and we have selected some items to add to a good (and positive!) reading experience, including – of course – some books. In a way, we want to ‘pay it forward’ and acknowledge all the lovely people who follow us, interact with us, and are supportive to the TripFiction site. We can, though, only have one winner for this prize and it needs to be someone based in the UK.
How to enter:
First. Ensure you are a member of TripFictoin – if you want to join, go to www.tripfiction.com , scroll down and click on the JOIN NOW tab (sign up for our monthly Newsletter and regular blogpost notifications too, if you are minded). We do check if winners are members, by the way.
Second: All you need to do is tell us the item that you would dearly love to see in your own Advent Calendar this year and share it in the COMMENTS below. Do so by midnight, 15th November and the first name out of the hat will be sent the gifts! This is UK only.
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AND THE WINNER IS!!!!!
FrankieB28
Congratulations!!!
I think the cheese advent calendars look good
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I wonder if I might be fed up with cheese after 24 consecutive days… but happy to give it a go!
A good book, some chocolate biscuits to have with my coffee and a pair of walking boots (probably too big for an advent calendar)!
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I am sure they can be popped underneath it, should they appear!!!
I’d love a little uplifting quote in my advent calendar each day… something encouraging, like a virtual hug. OR a string of twinkly fairy lights to hang in the window would be great… : )
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Yes, it’s hanging on to the positives as much as we can!!!
I’d love a spiced gin!
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Sounds wonderful!!
I’d love to have a Covid vaccine in my advent calendar so I can get out and travel again!
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Now THAT Is a good idea!!
My ideal advent calender would be a themed mix of sweet treats, puzzles, music, cooking ingredients, accessories and of of course a good read or two. And as my next travel hope is for south america that would be my prefered theme.
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I hope Santa has your list, sounds like you are all sorted on what you would like to see!!!
A good murder mystery, a bloke of chocolate and a couple of cups of coffee
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Shame that my mind work quicker than my fingers. Should have read ‘block of chocolate’.
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Lol!!! Good, anyway…
Sounds like a wonderful combo
a packet of dark chocolate digestives to nibble on while reading a thriller book
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At least two packets!!!
I’d like to see a jigsaw puzzle featuring a bookcase as I’ve seen so many bookcases on TV with people doing interviews from home during lockdown. I find it intriguing how books are displayed on bookcases.
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It is fascinating isn’t it. That would be a TALL order to do a jigsaw (I am not very good at them!). Did you see our post on bookshelves, there’s a japanese one that is amazing…. https://www.tripfiction.com/lets-talk-bookshelves/
A book voucher and some chocolates.
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Sounds good… I wonder what book(s) you might choose with the voucher?
A murder mystery and a large bar of chocolate to keep me going during these miserable times
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That is a good combo to take your mind off things!!!
chocolate!!
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Seconded!!!
‘A promised land’, by Barack Obama. For hope…
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Oh, yes, not long to wait now!
A mixture of whiskies and gins
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That will keep you going!!!!
A good thriller
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Yep. Always does the trick!
Would have to be a Horror
A negative PCR certificate to allow me to travel again, or more realistically anything by Bill Bryson
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Gosh, yes!
A good thriller that keeps me up all night completely gripped.
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That will take your mind off things, indeed!!
A racy thriller for me
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Should keep you well occupied and engrossed!
I’d like to receive a subtly scented candle, a great book and a large bar of chocolate
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That sounds really nice and relaxing!
I’d love a good murder mystery or thriller,
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GOOD choice!!
For myself any new forthcoming books by David Hewson or Philip Gwynne Jones (put down those spritzers and crack on! 😉 and for my partner the book I’ve raved about, The Man on The Street, what a debut! ..and chocolate, always chocolate!
The Minimalist Baker cookbook 🙂
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That sounds like a wonderful choice!
Step By Step: The Life in My Journeys by Simon Reeve (to enjoy some armchair travel and inspiration while stuck at home!)
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That is a really good choice!!!
I’d love one or more books to take me on a surprise armchair-and-imagination journey.
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Sounds an excellent choice!!!
Thorntons Continental chocolates 🙂
An anthology of spooky Christmas ghost stories (and then a bath bomb and a box of chocs behind the next two doors for the perfect bath!)
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Sounds just about perfect!
I would like some books on Orlando
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Ace. Hope you get some!!
I’d love to see a guide book for Barbados in my advent calendar, after our dream holiday was cancelled this year. Hopefully we will be going next year instead and I can plan all the trips to go on.
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Hopefully you can prepare for another trip quite soooooon!
I’d want a moisturiser to help keep my skin healthy in these cold months
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Sounds like a great choice with the colder weather approaching
We’ve really missed travelling to Greece this year so a travel book to escape the cold days and dark nights would be great!
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I haven’t yet, no. I do like her books and I’ve been to Spinalonga so I’ll be checking her new book out.
Sounds like a perfect idea. Have you read the new Victoria Hislop?
As a hug from my parents is still looking unlikely thanks to Covid-19, I’d have to pick a book I can get lost in! I think either Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library or Jodi Picoult’s The Book of Two Ways.
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Hopefully getting together with family is now on the horizon… in the meantime, those are great titles!
I would absolutely love some Hotel Chocolat chocolates to share with my family at Christmas! Thank you for the chance 🙂
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Sounds like a very good idea!
Disneylanders by Kate Abbott would be perfect for my eldest daughter too.
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Sounds like a great choice!
Any Bill Bryson book – a guilty pleasure!
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I am sure it doesn’t need to be guilty! Great idea
A book on a place of travel that I have never been to before.
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Sounds good (we would say that, wouldn’t we!)
There are so many wonderful new books that have published recently. I would love to receive a gift token or three so that I can choose some exciting reading material for new adventures in 2021! Hopefully they will involve travel too!
I would love to see some Detective books, some travel books, and a bushman hat. I really want a bushman hat!
A cosy pair of plaid pyjamas ready for duvet days and cosy nights with hot cocoa and books… Perfect now we don’t have to find excuses to stay in and read!
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Now, that IS a comfortable way to spend time!
A book on travelling to the USA
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Maybe it will be safe to travel there quite soooooon?!
A Christmas ghost story to read with the Christmas lights. As a teenager I taped Sherlock Holmes v Dracula from the radio. I listened to it by the fire light. We only had a real fire in that room around Christmas. Love ghost/scary stories like that at Christmas. I still have the tape, it’s over 40 years old.
A travel voucher and a lovely pile of books to read on those travels!
I broke the screen on my e-reader recently. I was absolutely gutted so I would really, really love a new one.
A good murder mystery book, some chocolates and hot chocolate to enjoy while reading and a pair of fluffy socks.
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The perfect combination!!!
Of course, it has to be a book – I’d especially love a travel memoir – one of those books written by people who’ve gone out into the world & had an amazing adventure, and then come home & written about it so we, the readers, can go along too! Armchair travel is the 2020 vacation!
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It certainly is… keeping the carrot dangled for when we are freer to travel!!
A book on cycle touring and maps.
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Great choice!
I would love some phase books as I like trying to speak the local language when I travel abroad
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Great idea!! Which language will it be, I wonder?
please let me win!
A book to escape too, away from covid19!
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LOTS of books, hopefully we can all move on soon!
LUXURY Pyjamas and some really good books just discovered Lucinda Riley and adele Parks brilliant
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Plenty to keep you happy!!!
The new Matt Haig book The Midnight Library would be good or some chocolate
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Great combination!!!
A lovely twisty Christmas whodunnit novel please!
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That will keep you occupied!
I would love an advent calendar big enough to have all my family behind the doors
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Now, wouldn’t that be truly lovely!!
I’m hoping for a trip to either Norway or Denmark next year, so would love something about Scandinavia. Love a bit of crime fiction!
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Let’s keep fingers crossed that we find ways to travel!!! In the meantime….
I would love to find a power pack for my pad & phone in my Advent Calendar
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And that will keep you going long after Christmas!! Good idea!
I’d love some travel guides so I can find inspiration for my next trip and dream about when we can all travel safely again.
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May our travels start again soon… until then, hope you find some inspirational guidebooks!
I would like some fancy chocolates please.
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Sounds good!
A copy of Deep South, a travel guide for the southern states of USA.
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Hopefully you will be able to go soon in person!
The art fiasco by Fiona Veitch Smith. Spotted it today on this site and by a twist of fate the action is in The Laing Art Gallery. We should have been there this week to see the Art Deco exhibit but were thwarted by lockdown. We have rearranged for my birthday week in January so this book and the time period would just get me in the mood
Tracey
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Oh, that will be perfect to get in the mood (and hello from up the Tyne!)
I would love a book of the hiking trails on the Cabot trail.
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Oh sounds excellent… and look out for our giveaway running from later today, it might be just the thing for you!
A copy of One August Night by Victoria Hislop
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That’s a good choice!
I would like my favourite fudge!
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Sounds ace!
I’d love a bottle of chianti so when I’m sitting in front of the fire I can pretend I am in Italy.
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Aren’t cicchetti the ideal accompaniment?? Sounds good to me!
Love mindfulness books and Mrs Hinch books would be great
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Ace choice!
In my Christmas stocking I’d love a copy of the Greek TV series (with subtitles!) of Victoria Hislop’s The Island.
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Sounds good! Have you read her new book?
I would love to see some hot chocolate to cosy up with while reading in the winter nights, and a Christmas themed novel to get me in the mood!
I’d love to see some hot chocolate to cosy up with while I’m reading in the winter evenings, and a novel with a Christmas twist to get me in the mood.
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Sounds excellent!
the new ken follett book
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Oh, yes!
JUS PERFECT
A book token would do me.
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Sounds good!
I’d love a kindle (or other ereader) to save using all my luggage allowance on books
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For when we can travel… roll on the time!
I’d love a book on mimdfulness
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That would certainly help in these stressed times!
Some mount Gay rum to remind us of our amazing time in the Caribbean.
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That sounds like a good idea!!
I’d love some chocolate and a book token for when the shops re open.
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They make a very nice combination!!!
Some crime at Christmas! I always love a good locked house thriller in the snow
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Totally atmospheric, great idea!
Apart from a cross section of books something that smells lovely for the bath, as in these strange times a long hot soak and a good book help take me back to days on the water in some far flung countries, and a hope that these won’t just be memories but something we will be able to do again.
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Good suggestions… I hope it won’t be too long before we can do some more nice things…!
Too many books I’d like to read to mention here so a book voucher would be gratefully received.
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Sounds as though you have a long list. Excellent, will keep you well entertained over the next few months!!
Some tea to go alongside the wonderful books would be great!
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Yes! Champion idea!!
I’m a sucker for anything sci-if! The dream would be to have all the old Buffy The Vampire Slayer & Angel books in a gift set that I read as a teen
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Sounds like a very good choice
I would love a copy of I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes – it is a book I can read and read again.
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Great idea!!
Apart from books, I’d love some cosy gloves to keep me warm exploring the outdoors this winter.
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Now is indeed the time to think about warmer clothes, and gloves are always a good way to keep warm!
A book showing stunning Lakeland walks would be lovely, and possibly an engrossing novel in which to become absorbed after and enjoyable hike.
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Such a lovey idea!!!
I would love books! Historical fiction & ones set in Japan are on my wishlist! Chocolate is always a winner as well! 🙂
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And the two combined make the perfect combination!
A beautiful mini notebook and a pen to capture inspiring thoughts when they strike.
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Such a good idea!! I never have anything on me to capture thoughts and make notes!!!
I would like any member of my family to pop out. Having not seen any of them since March, it would be lovely to meet before the year is out!
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It certainly has been a long haul so far…. hope you get to see them soon!!!
Anything by Joan Didion. I’ve never read anything of hers and she’s been circling me for a while now. I want to experience California and the world through her eyes.
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Nice idea indeed….!
The book I would like on the trip fiction Advent calendar is The Salt Path by Raynor Wynn and then also her follow up The Wild Silence, both for their evocative sense of place and wildness of both mind and situation
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I have only read the first… great choice!
I would like to find a copy of From The Mouth Of The Whale in my Advent Calendar this year.
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Great choice!!!
The book i would love to see in tripfiction advent calendar is Beloved by Toni Morrison. Been reading a lot of books by black women but this is one I don’t have. Or anything by Alice Walker.
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Oh, ace choice!!
An ereader would be lovely, although physical books would be very acceptable. I love historical romances but enjoy other genres.
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Fingers crossed you get what you want!!!
Some Kendal Mint cake as it reminds me of trips to the Lake Distcrict.
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It’s lovely how food (and fragrances) can help you connect with lovely times!
I’d love Nell’s Festival of crisp winter glories by Glenda Millard
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Sounds good!!
Books of course. Both crime and romance with a Christmas theme
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Of course!!! Hope you get a great selection!
Psychological thrillers
Hello, in my own advent callender I love funny jokes and quotes. Thank you for the chance to win, it looks like a lovely prize.
I’d love Hello Dubai by Joe Bennett. I was meant to be going to Dubai on holiday in a couple of weeks but, surprise, surprise it’s been cancelled!! I was so looking forward to going so I would love to, at least, read about it
I’d like children’s books and the opportunity to read to my grandchildren in person, rather than virtually.
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Yes, how lovely that would be!
I love the sound of a book advent calendar! My dream book would be Miss Austen by Gill Hornby. I think it would be a cosy comfy read!
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Sounds like a good choice!!!
I would love to see 24 books that I haven’t got already in my advent calendar this year!
I’d love a new e-reader, as I broke mine recently, and then my favourite books behind every door.
I love the idea of a book advent calendar! My dream advent calendar would include Limitless by Tim Peake as I’d really like to read it and the thought of going to the International Space Station, just to get away from the Earth for a bit, is rather appealing!
To have a drink of mulled wine with all the friends I haven’t seen for a while.
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Sounds good!!! Roll on the day when we can socialise again!
Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club.
I would love to find a note saying this past year has been a bad dream.
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Me too!!!
A book voucher and a jigsaw
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Those will keep you well occupied!
I would love to see a trip on the SS Sudan in my advent calendar – the real ship that was used as the Karnak in the Film Death on the Nile.
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Now wouldn’t that be something!!
Obviously books would be lovely, or toiletries, but what I’d really love is a crafty one with a different papercraft item every day – a rubberstamp, die, inkpad, marker pen, stencil or embossing folder.
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Now that is a great idea!! Certainly keep you busy!
A Promised Land by Barack Obama. I think this would make an excellent read…
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It would indeed!!!
I’d love stories written by my grandchildren in my Advent Calendar, their imagination is boundless.
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What a LOVELY idea!!
I’d love to see Black Narcissus by Rumer Goden in my advent calendar.
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That WOULD be a good read!!! Fingers crossed!
I’d love to see a new historical crime novel that I haven’t read.
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Hope it happens!
I’d love to find a new reading journal in the advent calendar, I’ve just filled one and have added a replacement to my Christmas list
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Sounds good!
I would love to find some of those magnetic bookmarks in mine in the hope it wouldn’t fall out all the time losing my place.
Maybe I should add some to my Christmas wish list 🙂
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Maybe indeed 😉
I would love to see a book on travel in Italy, either factual or novel.
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Only way to travel there at the moment. Fingers crossed for you!
This is great!!! I’d love to find an edition of Little women I don’t have as I collect them!
Mati
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Fingers crossed you do!!!
One August Night by Victoria Hislop, published recently, is the sequel to The Island.
I should love to find this book in my Advent Calendar, please.
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Nice choice!!
Le shuttle tickets for us and the moho ️
I would love a copy of Alan Davies’s book Just Ignore Him and/or Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club. Don’t want to be greedy but both these men intrigue me. We will have plenty of time to read.
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Good choices, er, yes, LOTS of time to read coming up…..
A new rom com book
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I would love some surprises by authors that I’ve never read anything by before. I love to discover new authors 🙂
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Yes, that’s what we love with TF, discovering so many new and wonderful (and occasionally not so wonderful) titles!!!
As well as some good new fiction, I would love some dark and white chocolate hand made truffles, so I could nibble away whilst reading!
Seems a good way to spend time during Lockdown 2!
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A perfect way to spend the time!!
The new Tana French book and a headline saying Covid 19 is now consigned to the history books and we can get back to normal !!!
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Seconded!!!
I’d love to read Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen as I love biographies. Great prize by the way!
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Thank you!
I would love to see A Promised Land by Barack Obama. Such an inspirational and such a magnificent yet humble leader who gives so many people hope.
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Come on now, you can’t ask me to choose. I do have Becoming by Michelle Obama. No one can make speeches like her.
Great choice… which Obama book to read first, Mr or Mrs??? 😉
I want travel related surprises. From Japanese candy, seaside inspired bath bomb, beach-themed jewellery, souvenirs from far away museum shops.
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Lovely and eclectic mix!!
Books and chocolate would make me happy
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Fair chance those will appear!
Some Christmas cheer!
I would really love to receive a copy of my granddaughter’s first novel. Of course she has only written the first 6 chapters and promises every day to get on with it! She got a first in creative writing early this year but since graduating she has been rather lazy!
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That is so lovely, hope it comes together eventually!
I’d love to see a copy of A Christmas Carol in it, as mine is falling to bits.
Just the ten lords a-leaping would do me nicely… 😉 (Maybe they could recommend some good books?)
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Sounds good!!
A fab chill book to read to them on Christmas Eve at bed time
A mills and boon book a day would be perfect for me
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Plenty to choose from!!
Books!! They last longer than chocolate! But if there was chocolate too I wouldn’t complain 🙂 x
I’d love to see one of Jo Spain’s books in my advent. I’ve read a couple of hers and loved them both, so want to read more!
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How lovely to have the full range of her books!!!
In my advent calendar would be Charbonnel and Walker drinking chocolate and my very own copy of Lonely Planet Best in Travel 2021. For snuggling up in winter and dreaming of escape!
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GREAT idea!!
I like the twinkly idea! Christmas scented candles would be my choice.
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Need a few bright lights, I think!!
The new Jim Butcher, or really any books will do!
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Excellent!
I would love to see ‘A Giver of Stars’ by Jojo Moyes … or any book really – to while away the dark hours of lockdown 2.
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And here we go Version 2…. good choice!
The novel American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, so I can be transported to a bookstore in Acapulco!
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Sounds good!!
Books, wine, books, chocolates, books and more books x
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Perfect!!
Just a little sparkly light would be enough for me! A twinkly white LED star ⭐️
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Sending a twinkle back!
All I ever want in my advent calendar is books! Or a nice bottle of red wine…
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Both sound like a good combo!
I’d love to see Londonopolis: A Curious History of London by Martin Latham
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Sounds good!
A copy of a travel guide to Rome/Italy. I hope to go there one day!
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Fingers crossed you get to go soon!!
I would love to see a book in my Advent calendar. My husband thinks I have too many and refuses to buy me any more. I have to resort to buying and wrapping a ‘surprise’ book for myself.
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Aw, no… well, at least you ensure you get what you want!!!