The Ultimate Christmas Cracker

Name: The Ultimate Christmas Cracker
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SKU: 9781529324938
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By John Julius Norwich

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In 1969, renowned historian John Julius Norwich compiled his favourite stories and curiosities from the year into a charming pamphlet, which grew into a beloved Christmas tradition. The Ultimate Christmas Cracker combines his final 50th edition with a selection of the best bits curated by his daughter, Artemis Cooper. Filled with jokes, warmth, and wit, this collection has become as integral to an English Christmas as holly and mistletoe.
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Ideal for readers who enjoy festive humour, historical anecdotes, and a warm, witty celebration of Christmas traditions.

The very best of John Julius Norwich's 'Christmas Crackers'.

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In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his friends, it rapidly turned into a huge word-of-mouth success. Soon, the arrival of John Julius Norwich's latest Christmas Cracker became as essential a part of the English Christmas experience as holly and mistletoe.

Norwich had a brilliant eye for a story and telling detail, and his Crackers are full of jokes, warmth, and wit. Here in one bumper book is his final and 50th Christmas Cracker, alongside all the very best bits as picked out by his daughter Artemis Cooper. This is the perfect Christmas gift.

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This compilation of jokes, oddities and memorable snippets makes a perfect gift — India Knight, Sunday Times

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529324938

Publisher: John Murray Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 November 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 164g

Pages: 224

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Arts & Culture Christmas Books and Gifts John Julius Norwich Non-Fiction

About the Author

After National Service, John Julius Norwich (1929-2018) took a degree in French and Russian at New College, Oxford. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service serving at the embassies in Belgrade and Beirut and with the British Delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. His publications include The Normans in Sicily; Mount Athos (with Reresby Sitwell); Sahara; The Architecture of Southern England; Glyndebourne; and A History of Venice. He was also the author of a three-volume history of the Byzantine Empire. He wrote and presented some thirty historical documentaries for television, and was a regular lecturer on Venice and numerous other subjects. Lord Norwich was chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund, Co-chairman of the World Monuments Fund and a former member of the Executive Committee of the National Trust. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Geographical Society and the Society of Antiquaries, and a Commendatore of the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. He was made a CVO in 1993.