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Christmas Days
- 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson, Imogen Church
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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For years Jeanette Winterson has loved writing a new story at Christmastime, and here she brings together 12 of her brilliantly imaginative, funny, and bold tales. For the Twelve Days of Christmas - a time of celebration, sharing, and giving - she offers these 12 plus one: a personal story of her own Christmas memories.
These tales open a portal into the spirit of the season, when time slows down and magic starts to happen. From trees with mysterious powers to a tinsel baby that talks, philosophical fairies to flying dogs, a haunted house to a disappearing train, Winterson's innovative stories encompass the childlike and spooky wonder of Christmas, perfect for listening to by the fire with loved ones or while traveling home for the holidays.
Enjoy the season of peace and goodwill, mystery, and a little bit of magic courtesy of one of our most fearless and accomplished writers.
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- Sara
- 12-30-17
Spirited Christmas Listen
This was an interestingly odd, off beat and at times charmingly engaging collection of stories. The book starts with the author's fascinating overview of the history of Christmas--something I really enjoyed. Then, the collection alternates between a short story narrated beautifully by Church and a short feast chapter read by the author. Winterson uses a very conversational style with the stories and recipes that make up the feast portions of the book. I loved her chatty advice about cooking and all her wonderful back stories about UK Christmas celebrations that went with the feasts.
My favorite of the short stories was the first in the collection, titled the Spirit of Christmas. This was magic filled and was so well written that it made me want to read more of Winterson's non-Christmas writing. For me, this chapter also made the whole audiobook worth the price of admission when grouped with the feast chapters.
Now we get to the odd part, the part that caused several friends to quit the book with a shudder. I hate spoilers but I do have to warn you that the author included a fair number of very scary, creepy ghost stories in the collection. At first, I thought she was following along with a Dickensian theme of ghosts at Christmas time with a Christmas message. In reality, the ghost stories were set at Christmas time, but often were not really about Christmas. It's hard to explain, and I'm still unsure about some of the stories.
I'll be honest, I skipped through several chapters and occasionally just listened to the feast sections. This was definitely not a book that I would suggest for family listening during the holidays--a bit too strange. I think in the end the theme may have been about putting things right at Christmas time, but that's just a guess.
I plan on listening again next year and maybe then I'll get through every story. Recommended if you like ghost stories or if you are willing to take a chance on something unusual. Just keep in mind that you might have to skip a few parts here and there.
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- Jean E. Lewis
- 12-25-17
Absolutely Delightful!
This book 's tales are autobiographical (I think) and are truly inspirational, although some "holier than thou" types may feel apoplectic. I laughed heartily, wept unashamedly, finished feeling the enduring love and good will to all that make Christmastide . The recipes are for experienced cooks - those who create delicious food by instinct rather than measuring cup. In the end, it left me wanting more, as a good book should.
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- Kait
- 01-04-18
Thoughtful, wry, warm. Pitch perfect Winterson
Loved everything about this festive little book! Nice to have something to listen to in the weeks leading up to Xmas to remind us to dig deeper. Personal stories and recipes were excellent palate cleansers between chapters and as a long time fan of Winterson, a nice slice of her personality served up without the frosting of her (albeit delicious) prose. If you want something "holiday" that isn't just shinny wrapping and sweetness this is for you.
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- Winky
- 12-13-18
Great daily deal !
Not Christmas storys you might suspect. I will certainly keep my eye on the author.
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- Alexis☺
- 12-18-18
Unique Christmas listening experience
With its truly gothic stories and quirky memoirs, this very Christmasy collection turned out to be just what I am searching for in the annual rush and crush of a university's December. Weird, thought-provoking, atmospheric, and beautifully nostalgic, in turns and sometimes all at once.
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- Coach K.
- 12-20-19
Second Christmas Listen
I LOVE this book! Ms. Winterson is such a wonderful storyteller and a fabulous narrator. While I certainly like some stories and sections better than others, I am enthralled listening to Ms. Winterson's voice and her tales. She is an amazing writer. I am sad that she had a tenuous relationship with Mrs. Winterson and her father--their loss for sure--but she has certainly fostered some important relationships since. Thank you for making Christmas more special with each listen. I use your "lessons" with my high school English students. Merry Christmas, Jeanette!!!
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- LadyTodd
- 01-11-19
Cozy Christmas Cabin - Stories to Share
This collection of stories feels like you're curled up in a winter cabin with a cozy blanket, a warm drink, and a crackling fire. And that's exactly what I am looking for in a holiday story.
The stories are well-written and imaginative. They are entertaining at surface level, but still contain all the intricate layers required for a thought provoking short story to stick with you long after it's told. Many of them are also a little creepy in the "perfect ghost story for around a campfire" way. They all come to a satisfying conclusion too- so no sleepless nights!
My favorite one was the Glow-Heart, which actually had me in tears several times. I also very much liked the SnowMama, Mistletoe Bride and the Second-Best Bed. What I loved most about the collection is that these stories explore the deep complications in relationships, but the stories do not revolve around them as a catalyst to drive the plot forward. Instead, the subplot lends a sense of reality to what might otherwise seem like a morality tale.
The addition of the personal anecdotes, recipes and historical references made the collection especially enjoyable. (Historical fiction mystery/thriller is favorite.) These portions made me feel like I was listening to a friend share with me a treasured Christmas memory in a natural way. Of course if it's a story any friend of mine would tell then it would always involve food, personal life tidbits and a bit of historical "did you know?" thrown in.
This audiobook has made its way into my annual holiday rotation!
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- Kelly M.
- 01-03-19
Best Book of the Season
This book took me completely by surprise - it was by far the most enjoyable listen of my holiday season, and not only because Ms. Winterson has created a narrative that binds together the ties of our common humanity (not an easy thing in today's era of supersensitivity). This is one instance where I can't imagine just reading this - the performance and narration brought this to life in a way I couldn't have imagined from the printed word.
The stories, impeccably voiced by Imogen Church, were well-written, varied, and surprising - chilling and touching and thought-provoking by turns, the disparate motifs delicately linked by holiday commonality. Listening to the author-read portions interposed between the stories was like visiting with a good friend - informal, effortlessly engaging, and unaffected. Historical notes, holiday food traditions, and autobiographical accounts fit seamlessly amid the tales and were utterly captivating. I was almost heartbroken when the book ended because it really was like bidding farewell to a favorite visitor. Now I have one more reason to look forward to the holidays - this book is going on my annual holiday listen list without doubt.
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I cherish this book of stories every year. I love hearing the author's own voice for her recipes and the narration of the fiction is done well too. Steep here for history of Christmas, heart of Christmas and spirit of the season. Meet the Snow Mama, the silver frogs and the donkey of Christmas day. Always a treasure, enjoy!
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We have been reading aloud or listening to this collection by Jeanette Winterson for a few years now. I have my favorites: stories and recipes, but the whole collection is a delight.
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Not so very long ago, Yuletide was as much a chilling season of ghosts and witches as it was a festival of goodwill. In The Old Magic of Christmas, you'll rub elbows with veiled spirits, learn the true perils of elves, and discover a bestiary of enchanted creatures. Rife with the more frightful characters from folklore and the season's most petulant ghosts, this book takes you on a spooky sleigh ride from the silvered firs of a winter forest to the mirrored halls of the Snow Queen.
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An interesting listen.
- By Streetsamurai on 12-18-22
By: Linda Raedisch
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The Daylight Gate
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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After the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, every Catholic conspirator in England fled to a wild, untamed place far from the reach of London law. On Good Friday, 1612, deep in the woods of Pendle Hill, amid baptismal pools and low, thick fog, a gathering of 13 is interrupted by the local magistrate. Two of their coven have already been imprisoned for witchcraft and are awaiting trial, but those who remain are vouched for by the wealthy and respected Alice Nutter.
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MS winterson
- By Autodidact on 02-18-19
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A Lot Like Christmas
- By: Connie Willis
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss, L. J. Ganser, Lori Gardner, and others
- Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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No one could ask for a better present than a collection of Connie Willis Christmas tales. These are amazing stories, representing all the best of the Connie Willis experience: true Christmas gifts to her many fans. They are full of humor, absurdity, human foibles, tragedy, joy, and hope. They both send up and embrace many of the best Christmas traditions, such as the Christmas newsletter, Secret Santas, office parties, holiday pageants, and Christmas dinners (both elaborate and spare).
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Very, Very Long Stories
- By Dave on 01-18-20
By: Connie Willis
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Favorite Stories of Christmas Past
- By: Clement C. Moore, Nora A. Smith, Louisa May Alcott
- Narrated by: Renee Raudman, Alan Sklar
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Tantor Media presents a collection of some of the most popular Christmas stories read by award-winning narrators Renee Raudman and Alan Sklar. This special anthology will transport listeners back to the Christmases of their youth, when they first heard these holiday tales.
By: Clement C. Moore, and others
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The 13th Day of Christmas
- By: Jason F. Wright
- Narrated by: Dawn Harvey
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Christmas Jars comes a powerful story of friendship and faith. Marva Ferguson has a very personal Christmas tradition that happens the day after Christmas. As a widow, the tradition means more to her now than it ever did. Her newest neighbor, nine-year-old Charlee, loves Christmas, too. But her family has fallen on hard times, and things get worse when Charlee becomes critically ill.
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It is as advertised
- By E. Seiber on 12-04-21
By: Jason F. Wright
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Night Side of the River
- Ghost Stories
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson, Vicky Licorish
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongside hair-raising fictions. Lifting the veil between the living and the dead, Winterson spirits us away to a haunted estate that ensnares a nomadic young couple in its own dark past, a staged immersive ghost tour gone awry, a West Village seance that threatens the bounds between AI and reality, and a vacation home in the metaverse where a widow visits an improved version of her deceased husband.
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JW is always worth a listen
- By Raggedyhat on 11-10-23
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The Old Magic of Christmas
- Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year
- By: Linda Raedisch
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Not so very long ago, Yuletide was as much a chilling season of ghosts and witches as it was a festival of goodwill. In The Old Magic of Christmas, you'll rub elbows with veiled spirits, learn the true perils of elves, and discover a bestiary of enchanted creatures. Rife with the more frightful characters from folklore and the season's most petulant ghosts, this book takes you on a spooky sleigh ride from the silvered firs of a winter forest to the mirrored halls of the Snow Queen.
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An interesting listen.
- By Streetsamurai on 12-18-22
By: Linda Raedisch
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The Daylight Gate
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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After the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, every Catholic conspirator in England fled to a wild, untamed place far from the reach of London law. On Good Friday, 1612, deep in the woods of Pendle Hill, amid baptismal pools and low, thick fog, a gathering of 13 is interrupted by the local magistrate. Two of their coven have already been imprisoned for witchcraft and are awaiting trial, but those who remain are vouched for by the wealthy and respected Alice Nutter.
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MS winterson
- By Autodidact on 02-18-19
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A Lot Like Christmas
- By: Connie Willis
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss, L. J. Ganser, Lori Gardner, and others
- Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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No one could ask for a better present than a collection of Connie Willis Christmas tales. These are amazing stories, representing all the best of the Connie Willis experience: true Christmas gifts to her many fans. They are full of humor, absurdity, human foibles, tragedy, joy, and hope. They both send up and embrace many of the best Christmas traditions, such as the Christmas newsletter, Secret Santas, office parties, holiday pageants, and Christmas dinners (both elaborate and spare).
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Very, Very Long Stories
- By Dave on 01-18-20
By: Connie Willis
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Favorite Stories of Christmas Past
- By: Clement C. Moore, Nora A. Smith, Louisa May Alcott
- Narrated by: Renee Raudman, Alan Sklar
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Tantor Media presents a collection of some of the most popular Christmas stories read by award-winning narrators Renee Raudman and Alan Sklar. This special anthology will transport listeners back to the Christmases of their youth, when they first heard these holiday tales.
By: Clement C. Moore, and others
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The 13th Day of Christmas
- By: Jason F. Wright
- Narrated by: Dawn Harvey
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Christmas Jars comes a powerful story of friendship and faith. Marva Ferguson has a very personal Christmas tradition that happens the day after Christmas. As a widow, the tradition means more to her now than it ever did. Her newest neighbor, nine-year-old Charlee, loves Christmas, too. But her family has fallen on hard times, and things get worse when Charlee becomes critically ill.
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It is as advertised
- By E. Seiber on 12-04-21
By: Jason F. Wright
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Frankissstein
- A Love Story
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: John Sackville, Perdita Weeks
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere.
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TW: SA, anti-trans bigotry, anti-gay bigotry
- By H. Myers on 11-19-19
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Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop
- By: Otto Penzler - editor
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine, Matt Godfrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Each year, for 17 years, Mysterious Bookshop proprietor Otto Penzler commissioned an original Christmas story by a leading suspense writer. These stories were then produced as pamphlets, just 1,000 copies, and given to customers of the bookstore as a Christmas present. Now, all 17 tales have been collected in one volume.
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Hiddensee
- A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker
- By: Gregory Maguire
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Hiddensee recreates the backstory of the Nutcracker, reimaging how this entrancing creature came to be carved and how it magically guided an ailing little girl named Klara through a dreamy paradise on a snowy Christmas Eve. It also brings to life the mysterious godfather Drosselmeier - the ominous, canny, one-eyed toymaker made immortal by Petipa and Tchaikovsky's ballet - who presents the once and future Nutcracker to Klara, his goddaughter.
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I wanted to love this and I tried
- By Veronica on 12-26-17
By: Gregory Maguire
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Rumpole of the Bailey
- The Rumpole of the Bailey Series, Book 1
- By: John Mortimer
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Horace Rumpole, the irreverent, iconoclastic, claret-swilling, poetry-spouting barrister at law, is among the most beloved characters of English crime literature. He is not a particularly gifted attorney, nor is he particularly fond of the law by courts if it comes to that, but he’d rather be swinging at a case than bowing to his wife Hilda, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed.
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Rambling and irreverent, Rumpole captures you
- By VW on 08-30-18
By: John Mortimer
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Tinsel Tales
- Favorite Holiday Stories from NPR
- By: NPR
- Narrated by: Lynn Neary
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
- Original Recording
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Ho ho ho! Here's what to listen to while driving to the mall, wrapping gifts, entertaining friends, or relaxing in front of a crackling holiday fire. In Scott Simon's modern version of the Christmas story, Jesus is born in an abandoned factory near Cleveland and the Three Wise Persons bring Chipotle gift cards. Claudia Sanchez gives a Latin accent to "A Visit from St. Nicholas". Barbara Bradley Hagerty explores what Christmas means for the boy choristers of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. (Hint: Handel).
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$0.95 Deal Day Audible Was Worth a Shot
- By Amazonbuyer on 12-25-15
By: NPR
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Nightwood
- By: Djuna Barnes, Jeanette Winterson - preface, T. S. Eliot - introduction
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Nightwood, Djuna Barnes's strange and sinuous tour de force novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna - a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous. The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction.
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve...
- By Darwin8u on 01-18-20
By: Djuna Barnes, and others
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Anne of Green Gables
- By: Lucy Maud Montgomery, Abi Hynes – adaptation
- Narrated by: Sandra Oh, Catherine O'Hara, Victor Garber, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Original Recording
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