More Christmas Crackers

More Christmas Crackers by Norwich, John Julius. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780670831890.

From the inside front dustjacket\: "Over the last twenty years John Julius Norwich has been sending out Christmas Crackers – a commonplace selection of prose and poetry – to his friends instead of Christmas cards. What began as a personal choice of literary odds and ends has become a collection, something to be nurtured and cultivated. Assembled here by popular demand are Crackers from the second decade; from contributors as diverse as Charles Dodgson and Freya Stark, Nelson and Catullus, on subjects as various as pig-sticking and the Papacy, the culinary preparation of puffins and the worst-ever novel. There is something here for every taste and mood, making another a wholly enchanting, diverting, and wide-ranging anthology."