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Each of these titles is a perfect companion while the days grow imperceptibly longer.

(Laura Battle, FT) "Funny, tender and deeply moving... [it] brought me more pleasure than any other book this year." (Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Sunday Times) The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke ...

One strange quirk is that in the middle of summer reporters can find themselves writing a book about Father Christmas, jingle bells and general festive cheer. So, to celebrate the festive season ...

Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books.

with thanks to our friends at Children's Books Ireland, Ruth Concannon wants us all to make our own Christmas list full of books! Whether you're decking the halls, rocking around the Christmas ...

But we also had a Christmas gift tradition that was less traditional (in fact, maybe we are the only family that did it?): the book couch. Santa would put the presents (the ones that fit ...

Little did Anderson County native Jimmy Byrge think when he wrote the book "The Evergreen Christmas Tree" in 2008 for a railway venture that it would become one of Amazon's "hot" new books this year ...