Books like 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.
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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.
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.
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.
The Christmas Train
Tom Langdon, a burned-out journalist banned from flying, takes the train across America to Los Angeles for Christmas, and finds an old love among the passengers.
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.
In a Holidaze
Mae Jones, at her family's last Christmas at a cabin in Utah, wishes for a different life and wakes up back on the drive there, given another go at the holiday and at her crush on Andrew.
The Matzah Ball
Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, a Jewish author secretly writing Christmas romances, has to get a ticket to the hottest Hanukkah party in New York to save her career, and it is run by her old summer-camp enemy.
Christmas Days
Twelve Christmas stories, from ghosts to a magic box, each paired with a recipe and a memory from Winterson's own Christmases.
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories
Four Christmas crime stories, two of them featuring Adam Dalgliesh, written over the years for magazines.
The Mystic Masseur
Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher in 1940s Trinidad, sets himself up as a masseur and then as a mystic healer.
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Nikki, a law-school dropout in London, takes a job teaching creative writing at the Sikh community centre in Southall, and finds that the widows who sign up want to write erotica.