Here are the books on everyone’s wish list for Christmas plus the chance to win a £100 gift card for Waterstones

BOOKS make the perfect gift at Christmas, with enough choice to please even the most fussy member of the family. Waterstones has come up with its own recommendations for great reads, from fiction to children’s, biographies and cookbooks. There should be something here for everyone...

Fiction

Narrow Road To The Deep North by Richard Flanagan (Chatto and Windus, £16.99) The winner of the 2014 Booker prize 2014. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever...

The Sunrise by Victoria Hislop (Headline Review, £19.99) Hislop masterfully brings a turbulent period of recent Mediterranean history to life in this enthralling tale. In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple are about to open the island’s most spectacular hotel, where Greek and Turkish Cypriots work in harmony. But beneath the city’s facade of glamour and success, tension is building. Then a Greek coup plunges the island into chaos...

Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz (Orion, £19.99) Author of the global bestseller The House of Silk, Anthony Horowitz once more breathes life into the world created by Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after he and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind. Ably assisted by Inspector Athelney Jones of Scotland Yard, Frederick Chase must pursues this shadowy figure, a man much feared but seldom seen. The game is afoot...

Children

Awful Auntie by David Walliams (Harpercollins, £12.99) A page-turning, rollicking romp of a read, sparkling with Walliams’ most eccentric characters yet and full of humour and heart. From larger than life, tiddlywinks obsessed Awful Aunt Alberta to her pet owl, Wagner, this is an adventure with a difference. Aunt Alberta is on a mission to cheat the young Lady Stella Saxby out of her inheritance – Saxby Hall. But with mischievous and irrepressible Soot, the cockney ghost of a chimney sweep, alongside her Stella is determined to fight back…

Monsters Love Underpants by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort (Simon and Schuster, £10.99) The latest in the bestselling picture book series features prowly monsters howling loudly and drooling monsters from the steamy swamp. There are wild, woolly mountain monsters and spiky, spooky monsters from outer space too. And they all have one thing in common - they love underpants! Exuberant fun for little ones.

Biography

More Fool Me by Stephen Fry (Michael Joseph, £25) Containing raw, electric extracts from his diaries, More Fool Me is a brilliant, eloquent account by a man driven to create and to entertain - revealing a side he has long kept hidden.

KP by Kevin Pietersen (Sphere, £20) Kevin Pietersen reveals all...

Cookery books

Jamie’s Comfort Food by Jamie Oliver (Michael Joseph, £30) River Cottage Light & Easy by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall (Bloomsbury, £25) Paul Hollywood’s British Baking by Paul Hollywood (Bloomsbury, £25)

COMPETITION

The Press has a £100 Waterstones gift card for a reader to win, courtesy of the high street bookshop.

To enter, answer the following question: What is the name of the Pinkerton agent in Anthony Horowitz’s new novel Moriarty?

Answers on a postcard, with your name, address and daytime telephone number, to: Julian Cole, Moriarty competition, The Press, 84-86 Walmgate, York YO1 9YN by Friday December 19.

The winner will be the first correct entry drawn.