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Shakespeare used the word "Christmas" only three times in his entire canon (twice in Love's Labour's Lost and once in The Taming of the Shrew), but may yours be as Marcellus describes it in Hamlet:

"Some say that ever ‘gainst that season comes

Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated,

This bird of dawning singeth all night long;

And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad.

The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,

No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,

So hallowed and so gracious is that time."

Sending good wishes and lots of luck to our fabulous GCSE students 2025!

"Recommended Books" - enjoy!

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (1813)
2. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (1847)
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (1847)
4. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1861)
5. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (1850)
6. Middlemarch - George Eliot (1871-72)
7. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (1891)
8. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (1874)
9. Dracula - Bram Stoker (1897)
10. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1818)
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (1890)
12. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
13. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
14. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
15. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (1859)
16. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells (1895)
17. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932)
18. 1984 - George Orwell (1949)
19. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (1954)
20. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (1927)