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Festive book review: The Christmas Market by Linda McEvoy

Posted on December 24, 2025December 18, 2025 by aussiemoose
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  • Festive book review: The Christmas Market by Linda McEvoy
  • The short and the festive short of it: A little blue lightbulb learns the true meaning of Christmas
    (courtesy Pipeline Studios, Vimeo) SNAPSHOTLittle Blue, the Christmas bulb, will just do about anything to find his shine this holiday season. Find out what happens when Blue’s determination still needs a little helping hand. From all of us at Pipeline Studios, may your holidays be merry and bright. (courtesy Pipeline Continue Reading
  • Festive book review: Ghosted at Christmas by Holly Whitmore
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) On the top ten list of things that would wreck your Christmas, absolutely and completely and without a hint of celebratory salvation, surely having your ex turn up would be very high on the list? That’s certainly the way Mia Robinson feels when, after braving a Continue Reading
  • On 12th day of Christmas … I added another 10 new pop culture ornaments to my tree incl. Scooby-Doo, Peanuts’ Spike, Miffy + more
    (via Shutterstock) Forget decking the halls … at least for right now! With Christmas almost upon us, adding more pop culture ornaments to my tree is the order of the day, and yes, while I buy far too many new ones every year – is there such a thing? I Continue Reading
  • Festive novella review: The Austen Christmas Murders by Jessica Bull
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) With 2025 being the 250th birthday of one Jane Austen, it seems entirely fitting that this delightful The Austen Christmas Murders by Jessica Bull find pride of place in the festive reviews section of SparklyPrettyBriiiightmas. Now, as far as we know, and primary evidence is not Continue Reading
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  • On 11th day of Christmas … I read Christmas People by Iva-Marie Palmer
    (courtesy St. Martin’s Griffin) This seems to be the Christmas for festive romcoms with cleverly out-there premises and one of the best so far has to be Christmas People by Iva-Marie Palmer. In this sparklingly fun but emotionally grounded novel, Jill Jacobs, a wannabe screenwriter based in L.A. who’s had Continue Reading
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    It has to be the famous story ever told about Christmas … apart from the obvious other one, of course, where the Son of God born in a manger kicks the whole idea of Christmas off. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Life, for all its glorious moments, rich opportunities and heartwarming interludes, can also be a cold and brutal place. We all know that; we’ve been there, seen it doing its dark and uncaring thing and wondered how something that can be so good, so uplifting and wondrous Continue Reading
  • On 10th day of Christmas … I listened to two more festive albums – Molly Johnson’s It’s a Snow Globe World and A Holly Jolly Jill Barber Christmas
    (via Shutterstock) It’s a Snow Globe World by Molly Johnson (courtesy SoundCloud) If you’re a Canadian, you will be well and truly familiar with the towering musical presence that is Molly Johnson, a singer active since 1979 who excels in delivering pop and jazz numbers with evocatively soulful ease and Continue Reading
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