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'If I possibly could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who runs about with "Merry Christmas" on his mouth should be boiled along with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.' A Christmas anthology from famous historian and Christmas Cracker compiler John Julius Norwich. This season go carol singing in the Cotswolds with Laurie Lee or attend cathedral with a grumpy Samuel Pepys. Make plum puddings for bemused French villagers with Elizabeth David; go present shopping with Virginia Woolf, or eat much too much with Agatha Christie. Celebrate Christmas at Chatsworth, in the workhouse or marooned in the snow with Shackleton.... For the last for 45 years, the arrival of John Julius Norwich's latest Christmas Cracker has become as essential a part of the Christmas experience as holly and mistletoe. In An English Christmas, the famous popular historian has finally collected good luck writing about this strangest and most memorable season into one audiobook. Vividly evoking all the good things about the yuletide season, this sudden anthology is merely as enjoyable about its darker aspects. Eight-year-old Princess Margaret's thank-you list jostles with moving characters home from the trenches. Sherlock Holmes solves his trickiest circumstance. George Orwell writes about indigestion, Jane Austen about unwilling socialising and Thomas Hardy about the old folk notion that all animals kneel at midnight on 24 Dec. A couple of ghost stories, game titles and bizarre formulas. Diary entries, formulas and letters sit down alongside poems and brief stories. An English Christmas could convert any Scrooge into an instantaneous enthusiast.
