This is Hollinghurst's best novel since 'The Line of Beauty'." (Laura Battle, FT) "Funny, tender and deeply moving... [it] brought me more pleasure than any other book this year." (Johanna Thomas ...

Twentieth century newspaper trend reports show that oranges won't be coming back in vogue as Christmas stocking stuffers ...

One of the best novels from Booker Prize winner ... the festive spirit would not be complete without the book that effectively invented Christmas. The Dickens classic tells of the miserly Scrooge ...

Publisher's Weekly called it "one of the best Christmas books ever," and one 7-year-old film critic I know called the movie "great." Abandoned by their father and left unsupervised by their mother ...

But in their time, some of them were even more popular than "A Christmas Carol." "All the books were adapted for the stage immediately," said Robert L. Patten, emeritus professor of English at ...