This Christmas, you can be in with a chance of winning one of three copies of Christopher Winn’s The Book of Christmas, signed personally for you by the author, by playing our Christmas quiz.
The Book of Christmas was first published in 2018 and has proved a perennial favourite at Christmas time every year since. To have a chance to win a copy of The Book of Christmas, signed personally by the author, why not test your knowledge of the history and traditions of Christmas by answering ten challenging multiple choice questions about Christmas each week that are guaranteed to have you scratching your head…
Christmas. The biggest party in the world. The most widely celebrated festival on Earth. But why do we celebrate it the way we do?
In The Book of Christmas, best-selling author and acclaimed historian, Christopher Winn, casts a revealing eye over the stories, myths and legends surrounding the most celebrated festival of the year.
In this lovingly written collection of festive myths, legends and (quite often) bizarre traditions, discover the fascinating truth behind some of our most cherished Christmas rituals and customs. Christopher Winn unearths all sorts of unusual and symbolic traditions from around the world; from the Druidical origins of the parasitic plant mistletoe and why we now associate it with kissing, to Japan’s predilection for a Kentucky Fried Chicken Christmas.