Batsford Christmas Gift Guide 2024
Readin’ around the Christmas tree! Have a Christmas to remember this year with the help of our festive holiday gift guide. We’ve carefully curated these beautiful books to help you find that perfect gift for a special someone.
The New Year, New Me
Calm Your Mind
Ravenous Butterflies | £16.99
Give the gift of a calmer mind in 2025 with this beautiful collection of art and soothing woods, carefully selected to help readers achieve an inner sense of relaxation.
The Independent Cook
Sarah Main | £20
It’s easy to become a whizz in the kitchen with this helpful guide to over 75 classic and delicious recipes. With QR codes linking to useful techniques and hacks, this book covers everything from a simple weeknight dinner or ornate dinner party. It’s the perfect gift for any beginner cook!
The Poetry Lover
Poetry of Love for Every Day of the Year
Jane McMorland Hunter | £25
Share the love by gifting this daily anthology of endearing poems, exploring every complex form of love we find within our lives. From romantic and platonic, to love for a place, object or pet with a wonderful array of diverse voices, this book celebrates how love can connect us all.
A Happy Poem for Every Day of the Year
Jane McMorland Hunter | £25
This beautiful daily anthology of happy poems is sure to offer a morning boost to anyone who unwraps it! Featuring words from literary greats such as John Keats and Pulitzer Prize Winner Rita Dove, sprinkle a little bit of happiness into their every day.
Shakespeare for Every Night of the Year
Colin Salter | £25
Let a loved one be immersed in the sublime language of the Bard with this wonderful anthology of versed poetry, carefully chosen from Shakespeare’s most beloved plays and sonnets. Perfect for a literary inspiring bedtime read.
The Crafter
Soulful Stitch
Cas Holmes & Deena Beverley | £25
For crafty hands, this thoughtful, meditative guide exploring all the ways in which textile art can soothe and console through challenging times is ideal. By two renowned British textile artists, readers will uncover the healing powers of stitch with invaluable advice and guidance.
A Year of Flower Wreaths
Malin Björkholm | £25
Wreaths aren’t just for Christmas! For those who love to sprinkle a little bit of nature into their homes, let them uncover the potential of wreath making all year round with this beautiful book of 40 unique flower projects, shaped around the four seasons.
Millie Marotta’s Precious Planet
Millie Marotta | £25
Colouring fans can relish in this beautiful new book of 77 amazing plants and animals from around the world. With a focus on endangered and vulnerable species, this glorious colouring book invites to hours of creative fun.
Maggie Magoo’s Amazing Astrology
Maggie Magoo Designs | £12.99
Whether they’re a pisces, gemini or libra – if they’re into astrology, they’ll love this colouring book by the popular Maggie Magoo Design house.
Cardigans: 20 knitting patterns for every season
Maja Karlsson | £25
In those chillier months, this collection of Nordic-inspired cardigan patterns is a knitter’s best friend. Gift them these 20 fun and cosy projects that will see them craft beautiful knitwear that will last for years.
Hazel Soan’s Paining People and Portraits
Hazel Soan | £22.95
Mastering the art of portrait painting is simple with this helpful portraiture guide by a bestselling artist. Ideal for painters new and experienced to hone and enhance their passion for painting.
The Traveller
Bedside Companion for Travel Lovers
Jane McMorland Hunter | £25
Someone you know got a travel itch? Let them explore the world from their reading chair with this globetrotting anthology of travel writing, covering fiction, non-fiction, history and journalism from the world’s finest travel writers, both classic and contemporary.
The Nature Lover
An Insect A Day
Dominic Couzens and Gail Ashton | £22
In this beautifully produced collection, nature experts Gail Ashton and Dominic Couzens tell the stories of hundreds of insects with information about behaviour, migration and protection mechanisms, as well as their involvement in folklore, history, literature and more.
Urban Nature Every Day
Jane McMorland Hunter & Sally Hughes | £14.99
Perfect for those who want to spend more time outdoors, this illustrated book of over 366 prompts for appreciating their local natural landscape is the perfect companion.
Forests Woods & Groves: Art from the Arborealists
Philippa Beale | £25
For those passionate about conservation, this fascinating survey of work from art collective The Arborealists celebrates the beauty of the tree as a symbol of our shared heritage and the urgency of our need to protect them.
The Architect Enthusiast
Station
Christopher Beanland | £25
Treat the train enthusiast in your life to this celebration of the wonders of railway architecture innovation. Featuring everything from a brutalist signalbox in Birmingham to the futuristic snake-like footbridge at Koge Nord station in Denmark.
South Bank
Dominic Bradbury & Rachael Smith | £40
London lovers will revel at this fascinating devotion to the beautiful architecture and buildings across London’s South Bank. Encompassing an art gallery, theatres, festival halls and a cinema, this book brings visual glory to one of London’s finest cultural hubs and is the perfect gift for architecture fanatics.
The Green fingered
Unforgettable Gardens
The Gardens Trust | £30
Know someone who loves a bit of garden envy? Treat them to this discovery of 60 of Britain’s finest gardens, parks and landscapes that have shaped our cultural and national identity.
We Made A Garden
Margery Fish | £14.99
For those who prefer a cottage garden, gift them this landmark classic on world-famous gardener Margery Fish, chronicling how she designed the gardens of East Lambrook manor in the mid 20th-century.
The History buff
Secret Voices
Sarah Gristwood | £25
Give the gift of four hundred years of women’s history with Secret Voices. Historian Sarah Gristwood has carefully selected extracts, musings and ideas for every day of the year by notable female diarists including Virginia Woolf, Emma Thompson, Anne Frank and Ma Yan.
The Treasury of Folklore: Waterlands, wooded worlds and starry skies
Willow Winsham | £20
Folklore fans will love this entertaining and captivation collection of tales, myths and legends traversing the ground and the skies from across the world. From selkies to sirens to celestial beings, this book is perfect for any lover of lore.
100 Books that Changed the World
Colin Salter | £20
For rebellious readers and literary lovers, unearth history’s most world-altering books from the banned to the ground breaking in this insightful illustrated collection that offers a chronological timeline across three millennia.
A History of English Churches in 100 Objects
Matthew Byrne | £18.99
Gift them some homework for Midnight Mass with this sumptuously illustrated look into the glorious ephemera of England’s Christian history. From stained glass to ornate fonts to precious silverware there are many a treasure to be had inside these pages!
The one who still has a stocking
A Dog’s Life
Hannah Dale | £12
Gift a dog lover this celebration of everyone’s favourite dogs with this this charming stocking-sized gift book of 50 illustrated pooches! From the faithful Labrador and the bouncy Cocker Spaniel to the loveable Old English Sheepdog, watch each breed brought to life in beautiful hand-painted detail.
100 Poems to Help you Sleep
Jane McMorland Hunter | £12.99
Is a loved one in need of zzz’s during the Christmas chaos? Treat them to this dreamy pocket poetry anthology has you covered with soothing verses from a variety of cultures, carefully selected to send them into the calmest of slumbers.
The Spirit of VW
Vaughan Grylls | £12.99
Perfect for car enthusiasts, this fascinating exploration of the VW features dynamic photography and insightful text that explains why we love them and why you should want to own one.
All titles are available to buy from our webshop and from other good booksellers.
Banner photograph by Malin Björkholm.
