You know it’s Christmas when Holkham throws open the doors to the Hall for their annual Candlight Tours

NNL editor Amanda Loose and writer Sarah Hardy loved the new Luminate attraction at Sandringham, which runs until Christmas Eve

Polly Coke, Countess of Leicester, who lives at Holkham Hall, shares her favourite places with Harriet Cooper, from gift shopping in Burnham Market to breakfasting in Binham

Harriet Cooper is dazzled and delighted by this year’s Thursford Christmas Spectacular

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!