This is Hollinghurst's best novel since 'The Line of Beauty'." (Laura Battle, FT) "Funny, tender and deeply moving... [it] brought me more pleasure than any other book this year." (Johanna Thomas ...

One of the best novels from Booker Prize winner ... the festive spirit would not be complete without the book that effectively invented Christmas. The Dickens classic tells of the miserly Scrooge ...

(Age 8–10) Milly McCarthy and the Christmas Calamity by Leona Forde, illustrated by Karen Harte, Gill Books, 176PP, ISBN 9781804581018 The latest festive instalment in the popular Milly McCarthy ...

But in their time, some of them were even more popular than "A Christmas Carol." "All the books were adapted for the stage immediately," said Robert L. Patten, emeritus professor of English at ...

Publisher's Weekly called it "one of the best Christmas books ever," and one 7-year-old film critic I know called the movie "great." Abandoned by their father and left unsupervised by their mother ...