The Christmas Reader

by Godfrey Smith

328 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 1985

About the author

Godfrey Smith (b.1926) was educated at Oxford, where he became President of the Union. He wrote five novels, one of which, The Business of Loving, was a Book Society Choice. Editor of The Sunday times Magazine from 1965 to 1972, he was later a director of The Sunday Times.

Reviews

[Rachel Glass · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lovely collection of Christmas writing - poetry, diary entries, letters, short stories, extracts, song lyrics... first published in 1985, it has a strong emphasis on literature of the 1920s and before, which is fine with me. I quite liked the fact that the selections were divided into categories, which meant you could read little chunks of related texts. Will definitely be dipping into this in future Christmases.