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We all know books make the best Christmas presents – they provide hours of entertainment and they're even easy to wrap! Take the stress out of Christmas shopping this year with these suggestions for everyone on your list.

For the fiction lovers

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The Sentinel
Lee Child
The Champagne War
Fiona McIntosh
The Godmothers
Monica McInerney
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
Richard Flanagan
Because of You
Dawn French
Marauder
Clive Cussler
Three Women Disappear
James Patterson
Tom Clancy's Shadow of the Dragon
Marc Cameron
Deadly Cross
James Patterson
Ready Player Two
Ernest Cline
NYPD Red 6
James Patterson
Grown Ups
Marian Keyes

For the younger book lovers

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Bluey: Verandah Santa
Bluey
Back to Sleep
Zoë Foster Blake, Mike Jacobsen
I'm a Hero Too
Jamila Rizvi, Peter Cheong
Old Man Emu
John Williamson, Simon McLean
The Deep End: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (15)
Jeff Kinney
The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo Book 5)
Rick Riordan
Ranger's Apprentice The Royal Ranger 4: The Missing Prince
John Flanagan
Terry Denton's Really Truly Amazing Guide to Everything
Terry Denton
The Human Body Survival Guide
George Ivanoff
The LEGO Games Book
Tori Kosara
The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow
Zoe Sugg and Amy McCulloch
Breathless
Amy McCulloch

For the food lovers

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Ottolenghi FLAVOUR
Yotam Ottolenghi, Ixta Belfrage
7 Ways
Jamie Oliver
Ottolenghi SIMPLE
Yotam Ottolenghi
Falastin: A Cookbook
Sami Tamimi, Tara Wigley
Cook, Eat, Repeat
Nigella Lawson
The Artisan Kitchen
James Strawbridge

For the true story lovers

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A Promised Land
Barack Obama
A Life on Our Planet
David Attenborough
How I Clawed My Way to the Middle
John Wood
Lioness
Sue Brierley
Mary's Last Dance
Mary Li
Bachar Houli
Bachar Houli, Waleed Aly
Roughy
Jarryd Roughead
Happy (and other ridiculous aspirations)
Turia Pitt
Untamed
Glennon Doyle
Becoming
Michelle Obama
The Last Days of John Lennon
James Patterson
The Wim Hof Method
Wim Hof

For the history lovers

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The Freedom Circus
Sue Smethurst
Troy
Stephen Fry
Moonlite
Garry Linnell
Agent Sonya
Ben Macintyre
Stalin's Wine Cellar
John Baker, Nick Place
When America Stopped Being Great
Nick Bryant

For the gift lovers

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The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
Charlie Mackesy
The Science of the Ocean
DK
The Mysteries of the Universe
DK
How to Draw Inky Wonderlands
Johanna Basford
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1
Yuval Noah Harari, David Casanave
You Will Rise
Sjana Elise Earp

For the laughter lovers

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The Scomo Diaries
Tosh Greenslade, Andrew Weldon
Cheat
Titus O'Reily
Un-cook Yourself
Nat's What I Reckon
Be More Keanu
James King
The Hungover Games
Sophie Heawood
Dear Girls
Ali Wong

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Jamie's banoffee Alaska
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Christmas cake from Margaret
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