Say hello ho ho to our 2024 Clemo Christmas Gift Guide! Chock full of book suggestions for those friends and family members you just don’t know what to get. Christmas is a time to gather and make memories – however when all the socialising gets too much you can rest easy knowing there’s a book at home waiting for you. We hope you have a lovely yuletide season and steal away a few quiet moments to read your book.
For the whole family
A Christmas in Cornwall by Craig
It’s Christmas Eve and Cornwall is blanketed by heavy snow. Two little girls are eagerly awaiting Christmas while out to sea their fisherman father needs some very special extra help. Christmas In Cornwall has become a classic tale which celebrates the spirit of Christmas with the very unusual occurrence of snow in Cornwall. Craig Green tells his exciting tale about the joy of a Christmas reunion in rhyming verse making it a book to treasure and read with loved ones on every Christmas Eve.
Make this your new Christmas Eve tradition that you’ll treasure forever. Just make sure your Cornish accent is good!
For the book worm with a travel bug
Bookshop Tours of Britain by Louise Boland
The Bookshop Tours of Britain is a slow-travel guide to Britain, navigating bookshop to bookshop based on author Louise Boland’s own 3-year-long tour. This long awaited fourth edition includes an additional 60 new bookshops for readers to explore – and one of them is Clemo Books!
For the witch in your life
The Witch’s Way Home by Emma Griffin
Discover your authentic self and unleash the powerful witch within. This book is your guide to navigating a magical life. It’s easy to lose your way, but The Witch’s Way Home will help you to reconnect with your heart so that you can return home to your true self. Combining techniques to calm your mind and life by an author and witch based here in Cornwall. It’s a really informative and just wonderful to read, a book you’ll return to again and again.
For the arty one
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Ruben
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. Dreamy gift to receive and place on the bookshelf or even better on the coffee table.
For the fantasy fancier
Gorse by Sam K Horton
Cornwall, 1786. For years, the villagers of Mirecoombe have turned to their Keeper, the old and battle-scarred Lord Pelagius Hunt, mediator between the worlds of men and fey, for help. But this is a time of change. Belief in the old ways, in the piskies and spriggans, has dimmed, kindled instead in the Reverend Cleaver’s fiery pulpit. His church stands proud above the mire; God’s name is whispered, hushed, loved. And now, death stalks Mirecoombe on the moor. There are corpses in the heather. There is blood in the gorse. A genuinely perfect book for the wintry season.
For the young adult book worm
Nettle by Bex Hogan
Inspired by faery myth and folklore, the haunting, heart wrenching tale of a girl called Nettle in a dark, foreboding faery kingdom. A wild misfit in the human world, Nettle is enthralled by the glamour of the faery realm, with its two moons and scarlet stars. She grows close to Conor, a human stolen centuries before, and she also falls under the spell of mysterious Ellion, a Shadow Faery. To try to help her beloved grandmother who is fading in her world, Nettle makes a pact with the faery king. He'll heal her grandmother in exchange for Nettle completing three tasks. She agrees, not realising that deception lurks in this enchanted place, and that she has been tricked… It's the perfect time of year to read a fantasy novel, by another Cornish author no less!
For the seafarer
The Draw of the Sea by Wyl Menmuir
Wyl Menmuir’s The Draw of the Sea is a beautifully written and deeply moving portrait of the Cornish Coast and the people who make their livings there, examining the ephemeral but universal pull the sea holds over the human imagination. Newquay residents will find something to relate to in this treasure of a non-fic pick.
For the writer
Write It All Down by Cathy Rentzenbrink
Sunday Times bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink shows you how to tackle all this and more in Write It All Down, a guide to putting your life on the page. Complete with a compendium of advice from amazing writers such as Dolly Alderton, Adam Kay and Candice Carty-Williams, this book is here to help you discover the pleasure and solace to be found in writing; the profound satisfaction of wrestling a story onto a page and seeing the events of your life transformed through the experience of writing a memoir.
We’ve got some signed copies in store whilst stocks last!
For the nature lover
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Serviceberry is an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times, and a reminder that “hoarding won’t save us, all flourishing is mutual. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, an inspiring vision of how to reorient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community
It’s a beautiful little book to gift at the darkest time of the year.
For the mystery murder fanatic
Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi
Six friends gather at a country house for a birthday weekend. They decide to play a game. All six names go in a hat. Choose two, and imagine one murdering the other. Write it down. Type it up. Read it out.Points are given for making the murders sound convincing. Of course, when given such a task, it’s only natural to use what you know. Secrets. Grudges. Affairs. But once you’ve put it in a story, that secret is out. So with each fictional murder, someone gets a motive for a real one. Which leads to the most important question: When a real murder comes, will you be able to spot it in time? A seriously good read for the post-Christmas pre-New Year period!
For the ones who like to be spooked
13 Cornish Ghost Stories
13 Cornish Ghost Stories is a chilling anthology of new Cornish ghost stories from the best of Cornwall’s current storytellers. Between the covers of this original short story collection, readers will find ghost stories set all over Cornwall inspired by the sea and the landscape.
Join us for a spooky yuletide event at Clemo Books where 4 of the creators behind 13 Cornish Ghost Stories will be haunting the bookshop with their ghoulish tales! Tickets on sale now.
Clemo Books will be open 7 days a week in the run up to Christmas. If none of the above are right for your loved on remember we can always order books in for you, just pop in or email us with your orders at hello@clemobooks.co.uk
If you haven't spotted our shop location yet you can find Clemo Books at 33b Bank Street, Newquay, TR7 1DJ. We can’t wait to welcome you into Newquay’s new bookshop for our second Christmas in operation.
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