Pub London's pubs had closed. The closures have been ascribed to factors such as changing tastes, rise in the cost of beer due to applied taxes and the increase in the Muslim population. Inns and taverns feature throughout English literature and poetry, from The Tabard Inn in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" onwards. The highwayman Dick Turpin used the Swan Inn at Woughton-on-the-Green in Buckinghamshire as his base. Jamaica Inn near Bolventor in Cornwall gave its name to a 1936 novel by Daphne du Maurier and a 1939 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In the 1920s John Fothergill (1876–1957) was the innkeeper of
The Mistletoe Inn The Mistletoe Inn The Mistletoe Inn is a 2017 American-Canadian made-for-television romantic comedy film starring Alicia Witt and David Alpay, based on the novel by Richard Paul Evans. The film premiered on Hallmark Channel on November 23, 2017. Kim Rossi (Alicia Witt) is an aspiring romance novelist. Her life is thrown into disarry when she is dumped by her boyfriend on the brink of his success – his own romance novel is about to be published. Deciding she needs a change, Kim enrolls on a writing retreat at a Vermont Inn shortly before Christmas. However, her hoped for peace is