The Folio Book of the English Christmas

This seasonal anthology collects English prose and verse about Christmas customs, food, weather, and household ritual. Pieces range from early carols and diary notes to novel extracts and twentieth-century memoir. Typical subjects include pudding and plum-pottage, carol singing in the Cotswolds, a Christmas Eve at Mole End, Father Christmas letters, country-house gatherings, and London fog on the holiday. Contributors include poets, novelists, and diarists rather than a single narrator. There is no continuous plot. The book is a miscellany of festive writing, not a history of the liturgical year and not a cookbook.

Bound in dark red buckram with a multicolour illustration. Green slipcase.