A young Victorian chimney sweep and Father Christmas help each other out at their time of need at Christmas time.

Fay and Danny are madly in love and it's all Fay's ever dreamed of. But she left everything - including the delightful cake shop she used to run - to be with Danny on his cosy canal boat The Dreamcatcher. And as she soon finds out, making delicious cakes on the water isn't always smooth sailing! Then Fay gets a call from her friends, a call that sends her back to where it all began, back to where she first met Danny, back to her friends and the Cake...

No stockings, no gifts, no tinsel and no tree - has Christmas been cancelled? It's mid-December and for the fifth year in a row, there is little sign of the festive season in the Sullivans' home in South London. That is, until, a mysterious someone starts sending strange gifts to widower Henry and his two children. First, a small-beaked and feathered face pokes its head out from between the branches of a pear tree. Before they know it, their home...

This is a one-volume collection of Dickens' most popular Christmas stories and articles. It includes 'A Christmas Carol', 'The Haunted Man' and a few short items from Dickens' journalism on the subject of Christmas.

It's three days before Christmas and just starting to snow. Against her better judgement, Libby Pugh has been persuaded by her best friend to stop in on their university reunion on her way back from a wedding in North Yorkshire with her boyfriend, Max. The host is Archie Templeton, the playboy of their group. The night is a great success but when they come to leave, the road is now impassable and she and Max are given a bed for the night. At first...

Discover a simpler, greener Christmas with hand-crafted gifts and cards, natural decorations and traditional recipes. Escape the modern-day commercial Christmas and enjoy a simpler, greener and craftier way of celebrating.

Christmas has arrived on the Cornish Isles of Scilly, bringing mistletoe, surprises and more than a sprinkle of romance . . . Fans of Poldark and Carole Matthews will love this brand-new festive read from the author of the bestselling Cornish Caf ̌series.For Maisie Samson, this Christmas is going to be different. After years working in a busy Cornish pub, she?s moved back to quiet Gull Island where she grew up, to help her parents run the family...

'My mother is not a foodie. But for as long as I can remember, once a year, she becomes possessed of a profound and desperate need to serve up a perfect roast turkey. Faced with a walk into the village though, she might think 'oh, f*** it' and decide to get a frozen one from Bejams on the 23rd and leave it to defrost in the downstairs toilet for not quite 48 hours.' From perennially dry turkeys to Christmas pudding fires, from the round robin code...

Tanya definitely hasn't let getting older spoil the magic of Christmas - for her, it brings with it a unique, magical feeling like no other time of year. So in 'Tanya's Christmas', she is excited to share all of her tips and suggestions for creating the perfect Christmas.

Spending Christmas in Norway with her distant father, a young girl cares for an unwell bear and her kindness has consequences far beyond saving another creature's life.