So much – if not all – of our communication is digital and off the cuff these days. A quick text, a brief email, a humorous emoji under someone’s social media post. Yet Christmas is a time when ...

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For the Hallmark Channel, Christmas starts in October, when it begins rolling out its dozens of holiday movies in earnest. Each one is a variation on a theme the channel has spent nearly two decades ...

From Elvis to Shakey, from Cliff Richard to Mark E Smith, every pop star worth their salt has sung a song of Santa at some point. But there is an art to the festive ditty Writing a Christmas song ...

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Drinking sherry, bingeing Downton Abbey ... how authors keep up the spirit of the season, even when writing during heatwaves and a nightmarish Christmas Christmas novels are not a new phenomenon.