It’s never too early to start Christmas shopping. We’ve got 10 titles to inspire your gifting this Christmas, plus you can save 10% when you shop online at Booktopia using your UNiDAYS discount!
1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
For younger siblings or all-out Harry Potter fans, this is no ordinary copy of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, this copy is a full-colour illustrations edition by Jim Kay. If you’re liking the sound of this gift idea, pick up your copy here.
2. Live a Beautiful Life
TV presenter Jesinta Campbell’s first book is an essential guide to living a happy and fulfilling life. She shares health and beauty tips, favourite recipes and more in Live a Beautiful Life. This book is a top gift choice for those who live by the motto “New Year, New Me”, get your copy here.
3. Lonely Planet: The Best Things in Life are Free
Whether you’re keen to add it to your own Christmas list or gift it to your friend, the budding traveller. Lonely Planet’s The Best Things in Life are Free is full of money-saving tips and tricks for the best-value experiences around the world. Published by the world’s leading travel guide experts, this book contains valuable tips to allow you to extend your travels without breaking your bank.
4. World of Wanderlust: How to live an adventurous life
From road trips to happiness hacks, to airport fashion. Professional traveller Brooke Saward offers up her top tips to get that holiday feeling wherever you may be. Full of photography, motivational quotes and more, this book will inspire you to live every day like it’s your last.
5. Swing Time
From the author of White Teeth and The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith is back with her latest novel Swing time, a story about a friendship between two girls that ends abruptly in their twenties, their musical talent and true identity. If you’re looking for a novel with stocking-filler potential, this is it. Available in paperback from 15th November, pre-order your copy here.
6. Fearless
Looking for the perfect book for someone to go nose-deep into? Fiona Higgins’ Fearless is a gripping novel that could do just the trick! Based on six strangers attending a retreat in Bali to help them face their fears, this book is both funny, powerful and shocking. When the group are left in deadly danger after a tragic disaster, it is up to each individual to face their fears in order to survive.
7. Release Your Anger
If novelty Christmas gifts are your thing, Release Your Anger should be top of your Christmas shopping list! An adult colouring book dedicated swear words and insults to colour your anger away. Sounds pretty good huh? Pick up your copy here.
8. Fight Like a Girl
Clementine Ford is a beacon of hope and inspiration to thousands of Australian women and girls. Her debut book Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists, exposing the continuing gender inequalities of contemporary society. This book is informative and eye-opening for feminists new and old, which makes it a pretty perfect stocking-filler for any female friends or family.
9. The Universe Has your Back
Help your family and friends stick to their new year’s resolutions with New York Times Best-Selling Author Gabrielle Bernstein’s latest book The Universe Has your Back. Bernstein bases this book around teaching her readers to transform their fear into faith with a series of lessons to help them relax into a sense of certainty and freedom, providing readers with the necessary direction they need to truly live. Take your family or friends on a spiritual journey with the help from Gabrielle Bernstein, and don’t forget you can save 10% with your UNiDAYS discount!
10. The Good People
Set in 1825, a time where religious belief and folk belief existed beside each other, the novel focuses on Nora Leahy, a widow burdened with the care of her grandson, Michael who cannot talk or walk. Fearful of villagers gossip, Nora hides her grandson away from those who might see his deformity as evidence of otherworldly interference. The Good People is the second novel by award-winning Australian author, Hannah Kent and you can pick up a copy here.
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