Set between the old and new series this novel fills in the gaps and brings us even closer to the characters we've laughed, grieved and grown up with. It's the missing piece of the puzzle that the show's millions of fans have been waiting for.

The festive season in the small Cornish village of Portwenn is going to be anything but easy for curmudgeonly Doc Martin. His idea of a perfect Christmas Day is to remain steadfastly alone and catch up with back issues of The Lancet. However, Portwenn is fighting off the cold and frost with a period of determined revelry before it heads into its deep winter sleep, and his patients are even more exasperating than usual. Not to mention his on-off relationship...

The Little Princess has decided she wants to be a pirate, and nobody in the kingdom is safe. After all, pirates are naughty, and the Little Princess is determined to be a proper pirate. But that means she will have to eat real pirate food and do real pirate jobs as well, and she isn't so keen on that.

Dick Bruna's adorable character Miffy has charmed children and adults for nearly 50 years. A stop animation Miffy series will be launched on television, and this title ties in with that.

It is raining today, so Miffy can't play outside. She finds lots of things to do - drawing, reading, even dancing. Then Miffy gets a wonderful surprise. What could it be?