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Shopping: Christmas presents

Xmas presents

Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? Nightmare, isn’t it. We’re avoiding shops as much as possible this year and instead sticking to fairs, markets and the internet. Here, below, are our favourite finds, all especially good for the folk in your life that are hard to shop for. And, crucially, all available with just a few clicks.

 

Shopping: Christmas presents

Birdsong: 150 British and Irish birds and their amazing sounds, £25.50, from Amazon

 

Shopping: Christmas presents

Historical Sticker Dolly Dressing: 1920s Fashion, £5.99, from Usborne Publishing

 

Shopping: Christmas presents

Grace, A Memoir by Grace Coddington, £17.60, from Amazon

 

Shopping: Christmas presents

Wildflower & Butterfly Garden Seeds, £3.95 per packet, at The Balcony Gardener

 

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1920s Nodding Dog, £120, at Growler

 

Shopping: Christmas presents

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel DVD, £13.99, & Bill Cunningham New York DVD, £10.99, both from Amazon

 

Shopping: Christmas presents

Ostrich feather biro by Maison Martin Margiela, £29, at Quill London

 

Shopping: Christmas presents

Children Farm Yard Animal Set, £10, at Chido Bueno

 

Shopping: Christmas presents

Tim Walker’s Storyteller, £56, at Amazon

 

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The Complete Nose to Tail Cookbook, £14.10, from Amazon

 

Shopping: Christmas presents

Painted tin bucket by Natalie Lete, £9.50, from The Cross

 

Shopping: Christmas presents

Hugo Guinness Linocut, around £300 from Wilson Stephens and Jones

 

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The Killing Series Three, £28 from Amazon

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Feather eyelashes, £18.50 from Liberty’s

Shopping: Christmas presents

Wind in the Willows e-book, £4.99 from i-Tunes

Shopping: Christmas presents

Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, £8.86 from Amazon

For more book ideas, see our best books list here.


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  • Angie

    Please, please, please join the Amazon boycott until they start paying their UK taxes!!! Support your smaller, local independents this Christmas …

  • http://twitter.com/fatblackcatspaw Mary Gordon

    http://www.hive.com to buy books from indepedent shops or http://www.abebooks.co.uk for second hand

  • kath

    Amazon owns Abe Books and The Book Depository.

  • Lotte

    The Birdsong Book is a brilliant recommendation, good quality and fascinating it was a well received gift, I am sure I will be giving to many more people, thank you.