The sixth volume in our popular Very Christmas series, this collection transports readers to the Emerald Isle with stories and poems sure to bring holiday cheer. This anthology is packed with beloved classics, forgotten treasures, and modern masterpieces. You'll find wondrous works by James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Anne Enright, William Trevor, Colm Tóibín, Bernard MacLaverty and many more. See how Christmas is done in snowy Dublin and...

A smorgasbord of Christmas stories by writers, from Hans Christian Andersen to August Strindberg to Karl Ove Knausgaard. This collection brings together the best Scandinavian holiday stories, including classics by Hans Christian Andersen of Denmark, Selma Lagerlöf, August Strindberg and Hjalmar Söderberg of Sweden, as well as the popular contemporary Norwegian author, Karl Ove Knausgaard. These Nordic tales, coming from the very region, where so...

With six days to go before Christmas, there's only one thing on everyone's minds… Murder! Holly, local dog walker and amateur sleuth extraordinaire, likes to think she's her hometown's answer to the dog whisperer. But owls? That's another sack of feathers all together. When she's called out to a rich woman's home, Holly is shocked when she's asked to… walk an owl? No amount of explaining will convince her new client that walking birds is something...

Have a holly, jolly Christmas in this title featuring some of Archie's most merry stories! It's the most wonderful time of the year once again! Archie and the gang are doing the last of their Christmas shopping and decking the halls in this special collection. Can Archie get his Christmas decorating done in time for the big day? Will Reggie get his name taken off Santa's Naughty List? Get ready for the gift of festively fun tales from Riverdale!

Our fourth book in the very popular Very Christmas series, this collection brings together the best Scandinavian holiday stories including classics by Hans Christian Andersen of Denmark; Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, August Strindberg and Hjalmar Söderberg of Sweden; as well as the popular contemporary Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard. These Nordic tales--coming from the very region where so much of traditional Christmas imagery originates--convey...

"The third in the Very Christmas series, this volume brings together Italian Christmas stories in a collection featuring classic tales and contemporary works. With writing that dates from the Renaissance to the present day, from Boccaccio to Pirandello, as well as Anna Maria Ortese, Natalia Ginzburg and Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda. These literary [works] are filled with ancient churches, trains whistling through the countryside, steaming tureens,...