Vanessa Sommer’s Other Christmas List is a short story written by Ben Aaronovitch.

It was published as a bonus in the Waterstones edition of The October Man, and is included in Tales from the Folly.

Set around the same time as False Value, after The October Man.

After the events told in The October Man, Vanessa transfers to the KDA and stays with her parents over Christmas. Armed with new knowledge (and some homework), she sets out to find out if there’s any magic in her old childhood haunts.