Bestselling local author Heidi Swain knows a thing or two about festive fiction – she’s written six super seasonal novels of her own. So we asked her to share eight reads to get us in the Christmas spirit!

In need of some bookish inspiration? We asked six local bookworms to share a ‘could not put it down’ read and we’re already working our way through them!

The Holt Bookshop team share their top picks for this month

Recent reads by local authors to while away a summer’s afternoon with

Despite leaving Norwich at 18, Zoë Somerville has made an imaginative return to her native county in her debut novel,The Night of the Flood. Amanda Loose finds out more