Walker Illustrated Classics is a new series which brings together some of the best-loved stories ever told, illustrated by some of today's finest artists.

These exquisitely designed books, with their magnificent words and glorious pictures, are a pleasure to read - and re-read.

The classics have never looked so good!Dickens's ghostly tale of Ebenezer Scrooge has become as much a part of Christmas as trees and stockings, plum pudding and mistletoe.

First published in 1843, this lavish, unabridged new edition resonates with the true spirit of Christmas.

It is superbly illustrated by Ireland's fourth Laureate na nOg, PJ Lynch, whose detailed, atmospheric artwork brings Dickensian London vividly alive.