Today’s queues may be digital, but the fight to secure that must-have present and avoid small, disappointed faces is timeless. Tom Howells looks at the toys topping recent (and less recent) Christmas wish lists

As Unitarians, the Potter family’s festive season was an abstemious time–something the young Beatrix railed against, joyfully, into her adult life and within her beloved children’s books, writes Matthew Dennison

Let’s take a nostalgia trip back 30 years to discover how the most-wanted toys of the festive season season worked

Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller revisits childhood fears for Dust Bunny

Oh, the joy of curling up on a winter’s afternoon to immerse oneself in a compelling crime novel or TV drama featuring victims and sleuths. The story will be set in a picturesque, seemingly safe place

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