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ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 2020 FICTION HIGHLIGHTS: Petina Gappah's epic journey through nineteenth-century Africa is 'engrossing, beautiful and deeply imaginative.' (Yaa Gyasi)

BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. The BBC has looked back through its rich archive of recordings to produce a poll of the most asked for and most broadcast pieces ever.

This is an evocative meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison.

The big red suit was ironed and ready. The elves had stuffed the final teddy, When from the bathroom came a yelp, 'Ho Ho, oh no! Quick, someone HELP!' When Santa accidentally shaves off his famous beard, the elves all rally round to help.

'Armed with this intrepid survey, we can see a brave new world down there on the beach ... Exquisite revelation, of the most wonderful, watery kind.' - Philip Hoare

The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children.

The Map and the Clock is a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed on our islands.

Teach me the language of your hands. Rachel has been the voice for her deaf mother since she was born, but now she is restless to be heard for herself. Together, they have found sanctuary in a Quaker community that reveres silence. But the world i