Festive murder mysteries, chilling ghost stories and snow-laden fantasy classics: these are the books our readers return to every December.

From scented candles to puzzles, these gifts are perfect for the book-lover who already has too much to read.

Spanning childhood classics and must-read novels to iconic authors and new fictional favourites, here are trivia questions.

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The Chinese artist on challenging governments, an early life living in a 'hole in the ground' and why he decided to write his memoir 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows for his son.

The tragic true story of a man wrongly executed for murder is behind Booker Prize-shortlisted novel The Fortune Men.

It's been a long, hard road for the creator of This Country, who grew up in poverty and chaos before finding an unconventional route into stardom.

The complete oral history of the story that changed British culture before the social media.

Overwhelmed by the Trump era, Lauren Groff looked to medieval times for inspiration for her new novel, Matrix.

The countdown to Christmas is on! So, we've listed a selection of fun things to do together to get everyone in a festive mood.

There's no better gift at Christmas than a great book (ok, we might be biased). We asked some of our authors to share the best book they’ve received, here's what it meant to them.

In this short story from Father Christmas's Fake Beard, a little town awakens to find that it has been covered by heavy snowfall. And there's an abominable snow baby... Don't forget to check out the Channel 4 adaptation of Terry Pratchett's fest

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