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As the celebrations for Charles Dickens's bicentenary next year begin in earnest, spare a thought this Christmas for his wife, Catherine, who published her own book of dinner menus, writesPenelope Vogler

If you haven't heard of the European Book prize, you join a large majority. I hadn't either when asked a few months previously to act as president of its jury

That Woman by Anne Sebba, Rosie's War by Rosemary Say and Noel Holland, Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

Week two: the novella