… my true love gave to me:
The Idiot and the Odyssey by Joel Stratte-McClure
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
The Unusual Life of Edna Walling by Sara Hardy.

One of my lovely colleagues also gave me Barack Obama’s Audacity of Hope and, while I remain a little sceptical – he simply can’t be that pure of heart, he’s a politician – most of me is just as sucked in as Oprah. So I look forward to reading his story.

Nice haul, and it isn’t even Christmas yet.