16 Top classics books like Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season by Muriel Spark

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Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

By: Muriel Spark

3.71

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

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1. Suddenly at His Residence (Inspector Cockrill, #3)

By: Christianna Brand

3.56

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

In the height of an English summer, Grandfather is found dead in the little Grecian lodge among the… read more

Similar categories in Christianna Brand's Suddenly at His Residence (Inspector Cockrill, #3) book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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2. Long Shadow

By: Celia Fremlin

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Unknown Binding

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Similar categories in Celia Fremlin's Long Shadow book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • christmas
  • fiction
  • british literature
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3. The White Priory Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #2)

By: Carter Dickson

3.66

Format: 176 pages,

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Similar categories in Carter Dickson's The White Priory Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #2) book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • christmas
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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4. Keeping Up Appearances

By: Rose Macaulay

3.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Rose Macaulay's Keeping Up Appearances book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • modern classics
  • fiction
  • british literature

5. The Weather in the Streets

By: Rosamond Lehmann , Carmen Callil

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Taking up where Invitation to the Waltz left off, The Weather in the Streetsshows us Olivia Curtis … read more

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6. Christmas Pudding

By: Nancy Mitford

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease may have terminated the hunting at the Compton Bobbins' in th… read more

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7. Invitation to the Waltz

By: Rosamond Lehmann

3.80

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

A diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note, and a roll of flame-colo… read more

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8. The Lady Vanishes

By: Ethel Lina White

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE WORLD-FAMOUS SUSPENSE NOVEL FROM WHICH ALFRED HITCHCOCK CREATED HIS MOVIE MASTERPIECE, REDISCOV… read more

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9. Tied Up In Tinsel (Roderick Alleyn, #27)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages,

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10. Murder After Christmas

By: Rupert Latimer

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An ingenious lost Christmas mystery returns to print for the first time since 1944 'Did you say … read more

Similar categories in Rupert Latimer's Murder After Christmas book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • classics
  • british literature
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
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11. Death of an Author

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.99

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

'I hate murders and I hate murderers, but I must admit that the discovery of a bearded corpse would… read more

Similar categories in E.C.R. Lorac's Death of an Author book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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12. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Introduction to Sally

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

3.66

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

This 1926 romantic comedy was one of Elizabeth von Arnim's most popular works -- more popular in it… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth von Arnim's Introduction to Sally book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • classics
  • fiction
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14. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights

By: Bridget Collins

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • holiday
  • anthologies
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5)

By: Janice Hallett

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This immersive holiday caper from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) follows t… read more

Similar categories in Janice Hallett's The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5) book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • christmas
  • holiday
  • fiction
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16. Babbacombe's

By: Susan Scarlett

4.00

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

"I thought we were allowed to sit. I mean I thought it was the Shop Act or something that we had to… read more

Similar categories in Susan Scarlett's Babbacombe's book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • modern classics
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17. Murder at the Theatre Royale (Christmas Mystery, #2)

By: Ada Moncrieff

3.18

Format: 253 pages, ebook

It's Christmas at London's Theatre Royale and journalist Daphne King is determined to solve an extr… read more

Similar categories in Ada Moncrieff's Murder at the Theatre Royale (Christmas Mystery, #2) book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • christmas
  • holiday
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Tree of Heaven

By: May Sinclair

3.68

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (1862 - 1946), a popular British writer. Sh… read more

Similar categories in May Sinclair's The Tree of Heaven book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Mistletoe Malice

By: Kathleen Farrell

2.75

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

A dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive cl… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Farrell's Mistletoe Malice book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • british literature
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
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20. Clothes-Pegs

By: Susan Scarlett

3.86

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

Annabel Brown has taken a job in the sewing room at Bertna's, a high-end dressmaker, to help her fa… read more

Similar categories in Susan Scarlett's Clothes-Pegs book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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21. Who Killed Father Christmas?: And Other Seasonal Mysteries

By: Martin Edwards

3.88

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

The murder of Father Christmas in the grotto of London’s busiest toy shop is just one of many Yulet… read more

Similar categories in Martin Edwards's Who Killed Father Christmas?: And Other Seasonal Mysteries book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • classics
  • british literature
  • anthologies
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
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22. Father

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

4.06

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

"There came a moment, she imagined, in the lives of most unmarried daughters, and perhaps in other … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth von Arnim's Father book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had …"

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father

"No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice, not Lady Higgs, not anybody, ever seemed to see the things he saw. If they th…"

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father

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23. Stories for Winter: And Nights by the Fire

By: Simon Thomas

3.52

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Stories for Winter is a collection of short stories that take their inspiration from this cold, sno… read more

Similar categories in Simon Thomas's Stories for Winter: And Nights by the Fire book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • classics
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season by Muriel Spark

24. Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

By: Muriel Spark

3.71

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

The British Library Women Writers series is a curated collection of novels by female authors who en… read more

Similar categories in Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • british literature
  • holiday
  • anthologies
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • modern classics
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25. One Year's Time

By: Angela Milne

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

It's New Year's Day and Liza is painting her floor. Walter, who she met at the party the night befo… read more

Similar categories in Angela Milne's One Year's Time book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • fiction
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26. Tension

By: E.M. Delafield

3.72

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

Miss Pauline Marchrose arrives at the Commercial and Technical College of South-West England as the… read more

Similar categories in E.M. Delafield's Tension book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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27. War Among Ladies

By: Eleanor Scott

3.95

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Miss Cullen finds herself in a dreadful predicament. Four years from retirement, she can no longer … read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Scott's War Among Ladies book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • historical fiction
  • modern classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Stories for Summer: And Days by the Pool by Simon Thomas

28. Stories for Summer: And Days by the Pool

By: Simon Thomas

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Join a host of female writers in celebrating the sunshine months of the year. As a sister volume to… read more

Similar categories in Simon Thomas's Stories for Summer: And Days by the Pool book and Muriel Spark's Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • british literature

24 Best fiction books like Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season by Muriel Spark

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Suddenly at His Residence (Inspector Cockrill, #3)

Christianna Brand

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Long Shadow

Celia Fremlin

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The White Priory Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #2)

Carter Dickson

3.66

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Transform Your Habits

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Edith Wharton

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Frenchman's Creek

Daphne du Maurier , Julie Myerson

3.98

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China Court: The Hours of a Country House

Rumer Godden

3.98

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