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These books are worth reading under the Christmas tree
Budapest – At Christmas we have time to deal with ourselves a bit, we also have time to relax and recharge.
THE hirado.hu offers some things to read under the tree when the tour is over.
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Agatha Christie: Christmas Crime
Christie for Christmas! This is how the English publisher advertised Agatha Christie’s new book for decades. It must have been more than just a business catch: the Queen of Crime wanted to wish her readers a happy holiday with a new book every year.
Because for Christie, Christmas was especially important, which is also due to the fact that in several of his novels and narratives the background to the events was solemnly set.
In one, Hercule Poirot spends Christmas in the countryside, and the feast finds a corpse in the snow in the morning, which then disappears. The protagonist of the second story is also Poirot, who, almost forty years later, is forced to have Christmas again in a country mansion and has to find the prince’s stolen ruby. Then again, only Poirot follows, and a memorable description of a hateful family. On the feast of love, the head of the family is found dead, and no one present is sorry.
Finally, Miss Marple also gets a memorable Christmas role. In a country hotel, a murder takes place during the holidays, and only the gentle, blue-eyed old woman sees through the evil’s machinations.
Richard Osman: Thursday’s Detective Club
In a peaceful retirement home, four potential friends gather every Thursday to talk about unsolved murders. When a brutal murder takes place in their own home, Thursday’s investigative club suddenly finds itself at the center of an active investigation. And although Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron are approaching their eighties, there are a few more tricks in their bag that no one expects. Would this strange but infinitely adorable team catch the killer before it would be too late?
Amanda Yee: Good Friends – The Official Cookbook
“Trumpet your good friends and welcome together these more than 100 recipes inspired by your much-loved TV show. Whether you’re a chef smeared like Monica Geller or you’re starting a catering company like Phoebe Buffay or old-fashioned belly or Joey Tribbiani,
Good Friends – The Official Cookbook offers a range of different recipes for chefs at different professional levels. ”
Frank Herbert: Dune
The most important product in the universe is spice, which extends life, allows space travel, and makes man a living computer. In the Empire that rules the inhabited worlds, the power is over the spice. The Emperor Padisah, the Great Houses that rule the planets, the Space League and the mysterious order, the delicate balance of power of the Bene Gesserit, the whole of civilization, is that there can be no shortage of spice. But this material is found only in one place, in the desert, cruel Arrakis, given to its inhabitants, the wild Fremen only know it: Dune.
Frank Herbert’s legendary novel, which won the Hugo and Nebula Awards when published, is perhaps the best science fiction ever written. The impact of the Dune is now inconceivable, with millions of readers over the past half century discovering the detail of the world of Arrakis, the beauty of the text, and the many thoughts in the book.
JK Rowling: The Christmas Pig
Seven-year-old Jack loves the plush pig above all else. Then one day – just on Christmas Eve – he throws Püsmac out of the car to his disgusting stepmother! No matter how much the boy gets a much nicer plush instead, he can’t replace his beloved pet. But Christmas night is a time of miracles when everything can come to life. So Jack and his annoying new game, the Christmas Pig, embark on a risky journey into the Empire of the Lost to rescue the boy’s best friend from the grip of the terrible, game-destroying Loser. In the perilous adventure, they have a talking snack box, a brave controller, and a winged creature named Hope to help them, but they must try, because if they can’t find Püsmac before midnight, they’ll never get home!
A heartwarming, exciting story about what toys mean to kids. JK Rowling’s latest book, for which the popular Jim Field made lovely illustrations, is arguably the place to be among the classic family favorites.
Beatrix Potter: Rabbit Peter and Friends
This special book conveys to readers in one chunky and beautiful volume the twenty-three tales and poems of Beatrix Potter, all set in the world of Peter the Rabbit. This is the first complete publication in Hungarian, which contains all the original, color and black-and-white illustrations, as well as all the stories and poems of the author, translated by Anna Szabó and György Dragomán.
We often know the real landscapes, animals, and human backgrounds of the stories, and these curiosities are collected in short introductory texts before the tales. The book also contains four tales that did not appear in the author’s life, but show his talent as a narrator and illustrator. Beatrix Po’s world is just as fascinating now as it was when, like a hundred years ago, children were able to take their books into their hands for the first time.
Pam Jenoff: They were lost in Paris
1946, Manhattan: Grace Healey, trying to get to work on a weekday morning, cuts through the Great Hall of Grand Central Station in New York and stumbles into a homeless suitcase. Folded out of curiosity, he peeked in and found an envelope of photographs in it. The dozens of female portraits grab her so much that she hurries back the suitcase, cuts the package into her pocket, and runs to her thing.
She soon learns that the suitcase was owned by Eleanor Trigg, who organized a network of female agents at the English Secret Service during World War II. The agents were deployed in occupied Europe as couriers and radio operators, but twelve of them never returned home, their fate obscured. Grace tries to wrap up the story of these women. His investigation leads to a young mother named Marie, who was almost lost in the maze of friendship, loyalty and betrayal during her dangerous mission in France.
Pam Jenoff’s novel flies the reader into the circles of female secret agents in World War II. In the story based on reality, the important role of these rigid and heroic women in the war is revealed to us, that the author also tells a fascinating story about courage, brotherhood, and survival in the greatest disaster.