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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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.