Mistletoe Malice by Kathleen Farrell
$26.00 AUD
Category: Christmas
A dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive classic with fangs: 'literary comfort and joy' (Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss) for fans of Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor and Stella Gibbons.
A Christmas Posy by Judith E. P. Johnson
$18.00 AUD
Category: Christmas
'A Christmas Posy is a wonderful collection of haiku. A longing for Christmas is in these pages. We all have our own Christmas memories; the only difference is that it is summer and a kookaburra is laughing as in the song we sang in distant days. However, there may be another aspect to Christmas. Anothe ...Show more
Hercule Poirot's Christmas special ed by Agatha Christie
$35.00 AUD
Category: Christmas | Series: Poirot Ser.
Agatha Christie's seasonal mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Ups ...Show more
Madeline's Christmas by Ludwig Bemelmans
$32.00 AUD
Category: Christmas | Series: Madeline
'In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines...' It's Christmas Eve, and Miss Clavel and her charges are all in bed with colds. All except Madeline, who answers the door to a rug-seller. But when she discovers that the rug-seller is also a magicia ...Show more
Christmas Stories by Ed. Diana Tesdell
$29.95 AUD
Category: Christmas | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Now joining Everyman's Library--the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world's greatest works--is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure. "Christmas Stories" is a treasury of shor ...Show more
The Nutcracker by E.T.A Hoffmann
$36.00 AUD
Category: Christmas
For nearly two hundred years, E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale of the Nutcracker has enchanted readers, inspired artists and composers, and delighted audiences around the world. Lisbeth Zwerger's stunning, all-new interpretation on The Nutcracker, adapted from the original Hoffmann tale, rounds out the story depi ...Show more
Dickens at Christmas by Dickens, Charles
$39.00 AUD
Category: Christmas
A selection of the best of Dickens' Christmas stories and writings, in one beautiful hardback editionDiscover this selection of the best of Dickens' Christmas stories and writings in one beautiful gift edition. The ultimate Christmas present.It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within ...Show more
Elizabeth David's Christmas by Elizabeth David
$35.00 AUD
Category: Christmas | Series: .
A glorious way to celebrate Christmas' Throughout her distinguished career, eminent food writer Elizabeth David published many articles on Christmas cooking and countless seasonal recipes. Elizabeth David's Christmas brings these together into a beautiful and timeless festive volume to treasure and ret ...Show more
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
$27.99 AUD
Category: Christmas
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulti ...Show more
The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries by Otto Penzler (Editor)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Christmas
Festive felonies, unscrupulous santas, deadly puddings, and misdemeanors under the mistletoe... From Victorian detective stories to modern mysteries, police procedurals to pulp fiction, comic gems to cozy crime, there's something for every festive mood in this must-read collection starring sixty of the ...Show more
A Maigret Christmas: And Other Stories by Georges Simenon
$20.00 AUD
Category: Christmas | Series: Inspector Maigret
It is Christmas in Paris, but beneath the sparkling lights and glittering decorations lie sinister deeds and dark secrets. In the short story that lends its title to the volume, the Inspector receives two unexpected visitors on Christmas Day, who lead him on the trail of a mysterious intruder dressed in ...Show more
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
$30.95 AUD
Category: Christmas
Every Christmas, the Morgan Library Museum in Manhattan displays one of the crown jewels of its extraordinary collection: the original manuscript of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol with its detailed emendations, deletions and insertions in Dickens' hand. Here, for the first time in a beautiful trade ...Show more