Unusual Books for Christmas

• The Devil's In The Cows by Sippican Cottage. Marvelously written short stories. A keeper.
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. A fantasy novel which shows you what's really beneath London.
• The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman. Another fine adventure of Navajo tribal police officer Jim Chee.
• Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa. Simply brilliant. I'll say nothing further lest I give it away.
• Souless by Gail Carriger. Vampires and werewolves in Victorian London and some of them know the Queen. Quite entertaining and humorous.
• Flashman and the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser. Scoundrel Harry Flashman in another adventure. As funny as it is politically incorrect.
• Memoir From Antproof Case by Mark Helprin. The closest that prose gets to poetry.