Invest in a quality book for the long winter nights (just add hot chocolate).
Don't even think about spending your Christmas book tokens without first reading our reviews. In this month's copy of The Simple Things (Issue 19, out now), Katie Allen reviews her ten favourite fireside companions. Among her edit are Stoner by John Williams (Vintage Classics), The Language of Dying by Sarah Pinborough, The Story: Love, Loss and The Lives of Women, Edited by Victoria Hislop (Head of Zeus) and The Curse of Lovely by Jacqui Marson (Piatkus).