Stocking-filler books

EIGHT READS TO BUY FOR YOUR LOVED ONES THIS YEAR

Astro Poets: Your Guides To The Zodiac by Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky

(Picador, £9.99, out 31st October) This guide to the zodiac, by the Twitter sensations, would make the perfect secret Santa gift.

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

(Chatto & Windus, £10, out now) Three decades on from The Handmaid’s Tale, this is the sequel we’ve all been patiently waiting for.

SIP: 100 Gin Cocktails With Only 3 Ingredients by Sipsmith

(Mitchell Beazley, £15.99, out now) Christmas is a time for cocktail making. Make ours a negroni!

Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay

(Picador, £9.99, out now) Twenty-five festive tales from the bestselling author of This Is Going To Hurt.

Inside Out by Demi Moore

(Fourth Estate, £20, out now) Highly personal, vulnerable, co-authored with New Yorker writer Ariel Levy and already a number one bestseller in the US. We’re sold.

Frost Fair by Carol Ann Duffy

(Picador, £7.99, out 31st October) A new Christmas poem by one of the greats, beautifully illustrated by David De Las Heras.

Yoga: A Manual For Life by Naomi Annand

(Bloomsbury Sport, £20, out 31st October) For loved ones in need of a moment of peace.

She Said: Breaking The Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite A Movement By Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

(Bloomsbury Circus, £20, out now) Thrilling, moving and essential. We are buying this for all our girlfriends.