Following last week’s festive recommendations from our Friday Book Club, we’ve asked staff which books are on their Christmas lists this year. Here they are:

Mr Hobbs (Science): The complete Game of Thrones collection by George R R Martin

Ms Gunn (Maths): Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals by Amy Leach

Mrs Johnson (English): The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Mrs Heggs (English): The Written World: How Literature Shaped History by Martin Puchner

Mr Broe (MFL): The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Mrs Charlesworth (Science): The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman

Mr Johnson (Computer Studies): Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil

Mrs Thompson (Head Librarian): Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop

Mr Larner (Geography): Done: The Billion Dollar Deals and How They’re Changing Our World by Jacques Perretti

Mrs Millington (MFL): Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

Miss Gallico (English): The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick

Mrs Drage (Librarian): How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

Mrs Thompson (Art): Creative Pep Talk: Inspiration from 50 Artists by Andy J Miller

Mr Benjamin (Science): Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now? by Ian Dunt

Mrs Kirkwood (Business Studies): Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Mrs Irving (Training): The Christmas Chronicles by Nigel Slater

Mrs Foster (Business Studies): The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too) by Gretchen Rubin

Mrs Edwards (MFL): Das Café am Rande der Welt: eine Erzählung über den Sinn des Lebens by John Strelecky

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