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The easiest Christmas cookbook you will ever own, Kim McCosker's 4 Ingredients Christmas contains over 80 stylish festive recipes that use just four or fewer ingredients and require minimal preparation. The clever little book will help make cooking at Christmas less stressful, and all the recipes featured are designed to help you create the easiest, most elegant food you can. With minimal preparation, the book covers everything from classic to contemporary meals, and even includes starters, sides, sauces, mains, desserts and drinks. Among the festive fare on offer is Maple & Pepper Glazed Turkey, a Garden Bed Pavlova and Salted Caramel Drops.

Filled with beautiful gifts and delicious treats, Celebration Cupcakes makes the most of award-winning patisserie chef Tamara Jane?s incredible expertise to bring us some gorgeous recipes. With a cake for every special occasion, this selection of tempting treats includes such delights as the Lovers? Raspberry and White Chocolate Mud Cake ? a perfect idea for Valentine?s Day! With sections on icing templates and techniques, as well as dairy-free, lactose intolerant and vegan ideas, this beautiful book includes plenty of colourful, eye-catching photography too.

Everyone knows `tis the season to be jolly, when you can roast chestnuts on an open fire and treetops glisten and sleigh bells ring alongside the sound of small children's laughter. However, if you don't think Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year then reach for Keep Calm at Christmas and let its soothing advice reassure you that Christmas comes but once a year. Keep Calm at Christmas follows Keep Calm for Ladies and Keep Calm for Chaps and offers many merry pearls of wisdom to help you get through the festive season, from tips on visiting relatives to making sure you don't make a fool of yourself at the office party. An insightful pocket gift for those who don't get on with Christmas.

Celebrate Christmas is a bumper bundle of Yuletide cooking and craft projects that will become a trusted favourite each year as the festive season looms. With a 'countdown to Christmas' planning schedule and plenty of advice on preparation, the book is packed full of traditional recipes, contemporary interpretations and plenty of great craft, decorating and gift wrapping ideas.

Now as well as singing the song, you can knit the characters. The Twelve Knits of Christmas brings together 12 charming knitting patterns for making all of the objects, birds, and people mentioned in the song and a beautifully illustrated book containing the words for each verse. Children will love to play with your knitted creations as you sing along together. And the projects can double up as Christmas decorations around your home, centering on the colourful and easy-to-assemble cardboard pear tree tucked into the back of the book.