Ready for some holiday book purchases? The Ottawa Review of Books team is pleased to share their takes on seven great books to buy as Christmas gifts. Please enjoy these reviews on recent works of fiction and non-fiction by Méira Cook, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Charles de Lint, Hilary MacLeod, Eileen Cook, Jennifer Robson and Chris Czajkowski. And ORB's Menaka Raman-Wilms' interview with award-winning Montreal novelist Caroline Vu.