Can anyone help me identify the book I am thinking of?

[gagamama]

I was passing through WHSmiths last week and saw a book my mum would love for Christmas. It was a book of short stories by various authors, one of whom was either Maeve Binchy or Erica James. It was a large hardback with a really pretty decorative pattern cover (no picture) - I can't remember exactly what colours, but it definitely had some shiny on it and I think it blue.

I assumed it was a new release and would be easy to find on Amazon - but I cannot find it anywhere, not even in the original shop I saw it. I'm beginning to think I imagined it completely.

It's not This Year it Will be Different, and Cecilia Ahern's The Book of Tomorrow looks sort of like I remember it looking, but it's not that.

I'm starting to think I've made it up. I was in a bit of a hurry when I saw it.

no idea but have you tried looking on the smiths website?

Was it this one?

is it 'ox-tails' - there are 4, earth, fire, water, air; published by Oxfam. I've just read Earth. Lovely.

was it one of those girls night in compilations/

Tilly - I think that's the one, thank you so much! It was definitely something charity-related, so fairly certain it was that. Looks ideal anyway, even if it's not.

The closet I could find was this which I guess I could have possibly mistaken as a collection of short stories by different authors.

But no, I'm certain it was The Book Lovers' Appreciation Society.