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Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the Christmases of Muriel Spark and Elizabeth Bowen, while Dostoyevsky, Daphne du Maurier and Italo Calvino take a cynical view of the season and Selma Lagerlof and Angela Carter celebrate its miracles. Ranging from Cork to Lagos to the Wild West, and from Paris to San Paolo to outer space, this is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short-story writers of all time.

Wen Olivia arrives in Athens for her career-making job with the International Olympics Committee, she discovers her role has been handed to Lars Linberg, the well-connected son of a billionaire, and she’s left to muck-in with the volunteers. Zeke, the heartthrob star athlete of Team GB, is in Athens to defend his title as the fastest man in the world. Outwardly charming and confident, Zeke’s harbouring worries about the future of his career. When Zeke and Olivia collide (literally) on their first day in the Olympic Village, sparks fly – and not in a good way.

"A delight to listen to." — AudioFile "British actor Shaniqua Okwok skillfully voices the main characters, lending distinctive, natural-sounding accents for each."—Library Journal Set against a sizzling-hot Greek summer filled with sunshine and souvlaki, Rufaro Faith Mazarura’s Let the...

Honey Fontaine is a young woman trying to evade her mother's husband hunting by enlisting a pretend boyfriend, handsome business man Ashley Elliott. Neither is prepared for the intensity of feelings that develop.