It seems unwanted presents are as much a part of Christmas fare as overcooked sprouts - you asked Santa for the latest Terry Pratchett, but instead discovered Terry Wogan in your stocking - or you’re a Delia fan, but found an unforgiving Gordon under your tree.
Most of us receive at least one unsuitable book at Christmas, but take heart, one man’s uphill climb is another man’s great read - so don’t head for the bin just yet. Instead, make someone else happy by listing your unwanted books, which means you can spend the cash you’ve earned on a title of your own choosing from the thousands of books on our site. We've even included a few ideas for you below:
| Things I Want My Daughters to Know By: Elizabeth Noble    | Barbara must say a final farewell to her four daughters. But how can she find the words? And how can she leave them when they each have so much growing up to do? Barbara's answer is to write each daughter a letter, finally expressing the hopes, fears, dreams and secrets she couldn't always voice. | A Prisoner of Birth By: Jeffrey Archer   | Danny and Spencer were born on different sides of the track. Danny leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School at the age of 15 to take up a job at a local garage. Spencer a graduate of Cambridge University. After leaving university he becomes a criminal barrister and is soon tipped to be the youngest Queen's Counsel of his generation. |
| Don't Stop Me Now By: Jeremy Clarkson   | There's more to life than cars. Jeremy Clarkson knows this. There is, after all a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered. So, before he gets on to torque steer and active suspension, he takes time to consider the madness of Galapagos tortoises and the similarities between Jeremy Paxman and AC/DC's bass guitarist. | Morecambe and Wise By: Graham McCann  | Tracing the progress of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise from a conventional working-class music-hall act to a mass-audience television team to a national institution, this book begins with their roots in northern working-men's clubs. Their 1977 TV Christmas "special" had an audience of 28 million. |
| World without End By: Ken Follett   | In the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. And they will live under the shadow of the unexplained killing they had witnessed. | Blind Faith By: Ben Elton  | Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy is considered a dangerous perversion. Trafford wouldn't call himself a rebel, but he's daring to be different, to stand out from the crowd. In his own small ways, he wants to push against the system. |