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Posted on July 28, 2025

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Beth Moran

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Beth Moran throws the reader directly into Mary's situation: alone in a cottage in the middle of…

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Posted on December 20, 2024

Murder at Wintertide by Fleur Hitchcock

My introduction to Fleur Hitchcock's books came in 2013 when my friend Dom was doing some freelance publicity work for Nosy Crow. He rightly thought…

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Posted on December 18, 2023

Advent Reading Challenge Day Eighteen

A Rom-com Book you'd Like to See Made into a Christmas Film No apologies. I'm cheating here and discussing two books. The first one is another by…

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Posted on December 15, 2023December 30, 2023

Advent Reading Challenge Day Fifteen

A Book Set in a Village There was no shortage of books to choose from for this category. And even once I'd selected an author, narrowing…

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Posted on December 13, 2023

Advent Reading Challenge Day Thirteen

Your Favourite Snowmance I review books and in the last three months of the year many of those I'm offered have a Christmas and or…

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Posted on November 7, 2017November 8, 2017

The Turkey that Voted for Christmas by Madeleine Cook and Samara Hardy.

The Turkey that Voted for Christmas (OUP) by Madelaine Cook and Samara Hardy is a fun Christmas read for young children and full of plays…

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Posted on December 25, 2008

Christmas in Norway with Jostein Gaarder

It's Christmas Day and I am in Tromso in the north of Norway.  Not coincidentally, I have just finished reading The Christmas Mystery by Jostein…

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