Books like Christmas Days
Twelve Christmas stories, from ghosts to a magic box, each paired with a recipe and a memory from Winterson's own Christmases.
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The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories
Four Christmas crime stories, two of them featuring Adam Dalgliesh, written over the years for magazines.
Winter Solstice
Elfrida Phipps, a retired actress, moves to a Hampshire village and ends up spending Christmas in a big house in the far north of Scotland with a group of strangers who each need a home.
A Child's Christmas in Wales
Dylan Thomas remembers the Christmases of his boyhood in a Welsh seaside town: the snow, the presents, the uncles and the aunts.
Skipping Christmas
Luther and Nora Krank, their daughter abroad for the year, decide to skip Christmas and go on a Caribbean cruise instead, and their neighbours on Hemlock Street take it badly.
A Redbird Christmas
Oswald T. Campbell, told by his Chicago doctor that he won't survive another winter, moves to Lost River, a small town in Alabama, and meets a little girl and a redbird.
Mystery in White
On Christmas Eve, passengers stranded when their train sticks in a snowdrift take shelter in an empty country house, where the table is laid for tea and the fire is lit.
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
On the eve of her ninth birthday in Los Angeles, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's lemon cake and tastes her mother's despair, and from then on every bite of food tells her how the cook was feeling.
Odes to Common Things
Short odes to ordinary things: an onion, a tomato, a pair of socks, a lemon, a spoon, a chair.
Let It Snow
Three linked love stories set over one snowbound Christmas Eve in a small town, starting with a train stuck in a blizzard.
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
Over Christmas in New York, Lily leaves a red notebook of dares on a shelf at the Strand bookshop, and Dash, a cynical teenager who hates the holidays, picks it up.
The Holiday Swap
Charlie Goodwin, a television chef in Los Angeles who has lost her sense of taste, swaps lives for Christmas with her identical twin Cass, who runs the family bakery in a snowy mountain town.
We'll Prescribe You a Cat
In a Kyoto building that isn't on any map, the Nakagyo Kokoro Clinic for the Soul sees only the patients who manage to find it, and its doctor sends each of them home with a prescription: a cat.