A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (Vintage Collector’s Classics)

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (Vintage Collector’s Classics)New Hardback A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dickens's spooky but wonderfully Christmassy tale, complete with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Mr Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, miserable old man. Nobody stops him in the street to say a cheery hello; nobody would dare ask him for a favour. And I hope you'd never be so foolish as to wish him a 'Merry

has been sent by Cromwell to uncover the truth behind the dark happenings at Scarnsea

We also still walk the same tightrope between meaningful self-fulfilment and destructive narcissism

pragmatic people ever-ready to learn from their neighbours

he made England a serious player once more

The triumph of Alfred’s dynasty was cemented by the short but magnificent reign of Edgar ‘the Peaceable’

a shocking wake-up call from the FBI might just cost him his freedom

hidden burial grounds to apocryphal shops

There was a rich harvest to be gathered in by the long range U-boats

unsmart and comfortable

or simply could not know

on their hikes and quests

the earliest named author