Book Advent – day 23 – Booktrail top ten

This year we have read some fantastic books and been to some fantastic places so here is our top ten in no particular order to inspire you to travel – via your armchair this Christmas season –

Bamburgh, Northumberland

A train journey through Cuba

The mysterious backstreets of Paris, France

 

To the dark streets of Edinburgh, Scotland

The Garden of Evening Mists in Malaysia

 

experience the personal story of a small girl in Africa

Step inside the cemetery of forgotten books in Barcelona –  in Shadow of the Wind

Explore the mystery of Keswick and its surroundings in Island of Bones

 

The amusing goings on in a small village in Pakistan. Get a cultural insight and make great friends

 

Protect yourself from the Canadian chill in Ottawa with a cracking crime thriller

So, there you have it, our top ten books this year. We’d love to hear yours and we do actually have loads more except we couldnt fit them all in. How do you pick only ten? Well based on location and atmosphere, these ten really did pack some punch. And well because I had to include this one –

Cry yourself to sleep on an island beside a lighthouse in Australia with A light Between Oceans…

Well, I guess that makes it 11 – well we best stop there otherwise we’d be here all night adding all our favs. Tomorrow we chose one that has both surprised and amazed us in equal measure. An imaginary location but one which we would love to go back to very very soon…….