And So This is ChristmasIts that time of year again . . . With his signature wit, Brian Bilston returns with And So This is Christmas, fifty one poems in celebration of the festive season: from bizarre family traditions to the office Christmas party; from voting day for turkeys to the impossible art of gift giving. So hang your stockings, grab your mistletoe and curl up with this heart warming collection of Christmas crackers.

chilling tales of folk driven mad by the house

Even after all these years

he is not at all happy

24 titles from this set are signed by both authors and also doodled

and ultimately our fellow man

As their secrets unfold

If Gair can escape

There is a stamp of a cat on the front end paper presumably made by a previous owner and bearing no relation to the book

and those who support Athenian independence are beginning to chafe and plot against him

his paranoid fears of assassination

Michael Collins takes post 9/11 America as the background for a deeply moving novel about complex identities and the fragility of humanity

her lover before she met Lemaster