"Raw Spirit - In search of the perfect dram" by Iain Banks

"It's a journey of a thousand 'cheers' and subsequent wobbly walks, of unpronounceable place names and daft customs and superstitions. Will Banks prevail? It's a tough job but as he puts it: 'someone's got to do it, and I'm damn sure it's going to be me'

"Stargazing - Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper" by Peter Hill

"It is 1973 and Peter Hill, his head filled with the Vietnam War, Frank Zappa, Jack Kerouac, the Watergate trial and Coronation Street, is about to spend six months on various remote Scottish lighthouses, "keeping" with all manner of unusual and fascinating people"

The latest Terry Pratchett - of course!

and "The Name of the Rose" - from my Santa

Can't wait to start......what was in your stocking?