Win over £500 worth of brilliant books for Christmas

Apart, of course, from world peace, I'd really really like the new Ladybird books for adults.

I have everything I need - though of course books are always a welcome addition! What I really want is to see all my family at Christmas - including 3 new grandchildren in the past year - and just wish that everyone was as lucky as I am in having such a wonderful supportive and loving family.

Family has had so many health problems over the last year, I would just love for us to have a healthy Christmas. I can see several books that would be perfect for many members of the family - would be a truly great Christmas.

Having retired this year, I am wishing for good health for all my family but especially for my husband and I so we can enjoy our retirement in the way we want to.

My husband and I are in the process of splitting up (no other parties involved) so I hope we can still have a happy and peaceful Christmas for the sake of our son. Winning these books would mean so much to me to fill in the lonely nights to come.

I'm with grannyactivist....just let the people I love emerge from their turmoil to find peace, calm and comfort in the spirit of a true Christmas.

I would love to wake up to snow on Christmas morning. I think that has only happened once in my life - late sixties maybe? We rarely get any snow where I live now. How I miss that lovely crunchy soft snow and the beautiful hush that descends on the world -when no cars go by, but people go out walking - and talking!

Lots of toys for my son , lots of food , a nice warm house and lots of laughter - and a new bookcase if I win this !

I think if I had one wish its the same i've had for the past year. I'd love to have the money and opportunity to get a memorial for my daughter who died last xmas. A bench and plaque i think.

A hord of books from Gransnet.

Like many others, I wish for all the family to be well and enjoy Christmas day together. Then a few days of quiet relaxation at home.

A perfect Christmas present would be to have my entire family together, and happy. The last few years have seen us all drift apart and it's so very sad. On a more practical level a room full of books would make my day!

I would like my family to be as happy as can be and for us all to have a peaceful Christmas.

It would be good for 2017 to be a better place for the whole world and for all countries to be able to converse and get along.

Material goods don't really matter, its the inside contentment that counts

Since it can be absolutely anything, I'm going for a diamond ring!!

Will be fabulous just to see my 2 little grandsons faces when they open the presents !

My wish is for garden vouchers from my nearest and dearest, I'm about to retire and want to acquire a greenhouse now I will have the time to look after it.

I would love a selection of books for Christmas. Nothing quite so comforting as curling up with a good read.

I would love my son and his wife to reunite as they still love each other.
I don't really want anything else for xmas

For my DH to get his sense of humour back which seems to decline with age... just a thought the books might help.

I absolutely love books and would be happy to read all of them. This year we are spending Christmas with our son and DIL and two brilliant grandsons in their new house. Everything in my garden is lovely at the moment but you have to live each day as if it's your last, you never know what's around the corner.

That DD will return safely from Tashkent where she works in time to share what will very likely be my dear mum's final Christmas. It will be tinged with sadness but we're hoping having the whole family around will give her and my dear dad some wonderful memories. It's also going to give us cause to be thankful because my DSis is recovering from very serious brain surgery.

This years been exceptionally tough; we're all hoping for a peaceful and calm New Year, nothing more and nothing less please.

Our 7 year old granddaughter lives with her mother 200 miles away and we are just praying that she will be allowed to spend some time over Christmas with us and her dad.

I am so looking forward to being able to get around again at Christmas after my hip operation on 6th December

I like grannypiper's idea of a new bookcase for all of those lovely books I'm hoping to win but most of all, I'm looking forward to the look on my 4 year old granddaughter's face as she delves into a stocking big enough to climb in to! Let's hope all gransnetter's have happy, peaceful family celebrations! This will be the second Christmas since my beloved husband of 40 years died but my sons have been wonderfully supportive and I'm slowly coming to terms with this new life...

I would so like both my lovely sons to find loves of their own this Christmas. Of course DH and I love them dearly, but they're both in their 30s now and neither of them has anyone special in their lives, nor have they for some time. I worry that they will have a lonely future, so if Santa could PLEASE see his way to playing 'Cupid' for a change, that would make it a VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS FOR US ALL.