The villagers of Thrush Green celebrate Christmas traditionally in a way that has hardly changed over the generations. Children eagerly hang up their stockings families go to church together everyone enjoys treats of the festive season. & when it snows as the carol singers make their way round the cottages on the green it seems as if Christmas will be perfect this year. But not everything is as peaceful as it seems. Phyllida & Frank have their work cut out for them when they agree to take on the Nativity play
- made all the more difficult by an outbreak of chicken pox. The indomitable Ella has lived in Thrush Green for as long as anyone can remember but lately she has been behaving strangely. Then there are the dreadful Burwells newcomers to Thrush Green who cause something of a stir with their home improvements. For Nelly owner of The Fuchsia Bush tea shop Christmas is an especially busy time with people dropping in for much-needed refreshment weary from all their Christmas shopping but then she receives an unexpected letter.
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Cassie settled down too young marrying her first serious boyfriend. Now ten years later she is betrayed & broken. With her marriage in tatters & no career or home of her own she needs to work out where she belongs in the world & who she really is. So begins a year-long trial as Cassie leaves her sheltered life in rural Scotland to stay with each of her best friends in the most glamorous cities in the world: New York Paris & London. Exchanging grouse moor & mousy hair for low-carb diets & high-end highlights Cassie tries on each city for size as she attempts to track down the life she was supposed to have been leading & with it the man who was supposed to love her all along. ...

When Santa sets off to deliver the presents poor Christmas Bear is left behind. How will Bear make it to Toms house in time for Christmas morning? With plenty of novelties to play with from flaps & tabs to wheels & mini pop-ups little hands will love to follow Christmas Bears adventures as he travels far & wide. ...

Whatever the celebration whatever the day whatever the occasion Helen Steiner Rice possessed the ability to express the appropriate feeling for that particular moment in time. Her positive attitude her concern for others & her love of God are identifiable threads woven into her life & her work. The role Christmas plays in an individuals life depends on the interpretation of the event & varies from person to person & family to family. In this collection of verses Helen Steiner Rice simply & touchingly reaffirms the nature of faith & hope. ...

Each of these short stories was written specifically for Christmas. They combine concern for social ills with the myths & memories of childhood & traditional Christmas spirit-lore. The stories include A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Battle of Life & The Cricket on the Hearth. ...

A Christmas Carol is one of Charles Dickens' most loved books
- a true classic & a Christmas time must-read. Ebenezer Scrooge is
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Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him scare him into mending his ways & he finds as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit Tiny Tim & their family that geniality brings its own reward. ...

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Sir David Jason reads Charles Dickens magical much-loved Christmas story. Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean unpleasant man who dislikes people generally & Christmas especially. But one Christmas Eve he has a terrifying experience. He sees the ghost of his one-time business partner Jacob Marley who is bound in chains & doomed to wander the Earth because of the sins of his past life. Marley warns Scrooge that he is headed for the same dreadful fate: but there is one possible means of escape. Soon he will be visited by three more spirits: the Ghosts of Christmas Past Present & Yet to Come. Can these phantoms persuade Scrooge to change his ways? ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics. 'I am the Ghost of Christmas Present ' said the Spirit. ' Look upon me!' A celebration of Christmas a tale of redemption & a critique on Victorian society Dickens' atmospheric novella follows the miserly penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge who views Christmas as 'humbug'. It is only through a series of eerie life-changing visits from the ghost of his deceased business partner Marley & the spirits of Christmas past present & future that he begins to see the error of his ways. With heart-rending characters rich imagery & evocative language the message of A Christmas Carol remains as significant today as when it was first published. ...