The festival in China
...ble violin which he wants to add to his collection. Is the owner prepared to sell it? Read this story and find out. C Back to top Calloway's Code When Calloway sent a message in code from the war front in order to get it past the censors, the whole office of the New York Enterprise newsaper got to work to decipher it and reveal the biggest scoop of the year. Chinese zodiac The Jade Emperor (Emperor of Heaven) called for a contest on his birthday: a race! All the animals of the kingdom were invited to participate, but there would only be 12 winners, and the prize was a permanent place in the Zodiac Years. A Christmas Carol This story by Charles Dickens is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption. The Christmas The Lights Went Out Five people, whose lives interrelate, live the build up to Christmas in different ways in different places. A sudden blackout changes their lives forever ... The Chrysalids This science-fiction novel by John Wyndham (US title: Re-Birth), first published in 1955, is the least typical of Wyndham's major novels, and in some people's opinion the best. It tells the story of David, who is telepathic in an imaginary future time when mutations are considered to be evil. D Back to top The Day Bob Marley Died A young man working as a tree-planter in the Highlands of Scotland experiences an incredible coincidence. A Diagnosis of Death In this scary story by Ambrose Bierce, a man explains to his doctor how he came to believe in ghosts. E Back to top The end? This...