The Faber Book of Christmas

This collection has been edited by Simon Rae. He is a poet biographer and playwright. He has edited many anthologies including <i>The Faber Book of Drink</i> and <i>The Faber Book of Murder</i>. Christmas seemed the natural follow-up. If the most wonderful time of year is enough to plunge you into a gloom look no further. This collection of spirited stories and vibrant poetry will brighten your mood as it brings together Charles Dickens and Philip Larkin W.H.Auden and Wendy Cope Jilly Cooper and Dylan Thomas. From tales of carolling and snatched mistletoe kisses to 'The Worst Christmas Dinner Ever' there's something here to amuse and interest Christmas lovers grinches and everyone in between. A joyful yuletide anthology cloth-bound in exquisite Liberty Fabric. A wonderfully subversive anthology. Simon Rae is as interested in the unorthodox as the traditional. Bookworms will love these Christmas-inspired stories and poems Exceptionally well-edited by Simon Rae giving due space to the cons of Christmas as well as the pros... This consistently thought-provoking anthology including a lot of well-chosen contemporary poetry alongside such familiar pleasures... Here's a Christmassy Christmas present that anybody save perhaps William Brown would enjoy.' Beautifully produced with an exquisite Liberty fabric cover and a ribbon marker. this is sure to become part of your traditional Christmas reading. A perfect gift for the ultimate bibliophile Lock the door and dip into this book There's something here to amuse and interest Christmas-lovers grinches and everyone in between. Lock the door and dip into this book A<b> beautiful </b>fabric-bound collection of Christmas stories and poems from writers as diverse as Jilly Cooper and Charles Dickens produced in collaboration with Liberty.