The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories Local interest like calling Tyre Nichols’s mother

like calling Tyre Nichols’s mother in the wake of yet another murder at the hands of police

unable to recognize-or even put into words-the nightmare that just took place

she has to do it under the watchful gaze of brooding radio producer Zander Rush

for too long

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The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories Local interest like calling Tyre Nichols’s motherThe ultimate festive anthology of the best Christmas stories of all time, selected from around the world and now in beautiful clothbound edition Truman Capote makes whisky soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the Christmases of Muriel Spark and Elizabeth Bowen, while Dostoyevsky, Daphne du Maurier and Italo Calvino take a