Booked for Christmas: A Short Story

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These two characters only knew each other through their work from her fictional world she created and him writing negative reviews. Meanwhile, Mould’s lively, black-and-white illustrations offer fairytale whimsy with a bit of old-school, Brothers Grimm-ish bite. Also, I’m quickly learning that I really don’t like enemies to lovers romances, but especially at Christmas. We’ve compiled our favourite attractions and activities the length and breadth of Britain — from the town devoted to celebrating in traditional Dickensian style to the city that’s built a winter wonderland right in its centre. When Philip Van Doren Stern wrote “The Greatest Gift” back in 1939, he had no idea it would inspire an Oscar-nominated classic.

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Don’t be like the grinch this Christmas with a heart two sizes too small, instead, gift someone special the choice of a plate, two sizes big!Piling your plate high with roast potatoes, red cabbage and pigs in blankets is one of the highlights of Christmas dinner. Told expressly not to touch the magic pasta pot, he does exactly that and nearly causes the entire village to flood with pasta (which wouldn’t be the worst death, we’ll be the first to admit).

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If you’re in the mood for a holiday tearjerker that’ll have you reflecting on the true meaning of the holidays, The Christmas Shoes is sure to hit the spot. Christmas and Charles Dickens go together like turkey and stuffing, so you’re guaranteed an extra festive skip in your step if you head to Rochester and its Dickens-themed celebrations.All of his creativity, meticulousness, and whimsy is on display in this book — from the story about the clumsy polar bear who accidentally falls through the roof of Father Christmas’ abode to the tale of the renegade reindeer scattering presents every which way.

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This is the aching conceit at the center of The Polar Express, an endearing staple about Christmas joy, growing up, and the power of belief. The festive entertainment that is Winter Wonderland comes to Cardiff at two central sites, on the lawns of City Hall and in the grounds of the castle. Needless to say, that’s much easier said than done — especially when witches, wizards who eat floating dumplings, and Czarinas get thrown into the mix!I loved Seán Hewitt’s moving memoir, All Down Darkness Wide (Jonathan Cape), which describes growing up gay in Liverpool within a Catholic family and which gives an extraordinarily sensitive, insightful account of his love affair with someone suffering clinical depression while at the same time keeping faith with Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetry – the mind’s mountains scaled. In telling the story of an antebellum racehorse, she balances two compelling timelines and explores the rotten legacy of American slavery.