Packed with charm and beautifully illustrated, it's a book that will solve your gift dilemmas and let you escape the less salubrious aspects of Christmas for a literary wonderland.

Winterson’s winter tales unfailingly succeed in their endeavour to leave you aglow.

Winterson's prose is often witty and sometimes lyrical . . . The recipes come with intriguing glimpses of the writer, her friends, and their Christmas rituals. Spooky, inventive, funny . . . Winterson's mixed bag of fictional treats has a 19th-century charm much needed in the grim 21st.

A pretty cloth-bound book containing an enchanting collection of recipes and short stories… suitably festive with icicles and plenty of mistletoe.

A wonderful mix of festive stories and recipes.

[A] witty, surprising Christmas garland… Wonderfully imaginative and entertaining... Fans of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit will want to try Mrs Winterson’s Mince Pies. Divine.

Christmas Days is a cracker: always sharp, often funny and moving, it gets to the heart of Christmas’s spiritual role in our often unreligious lives, and its account of Winterson’s personal healing is never less than heartwarming.

These funny, beguiling tales…pack some serious literary clout.

There is a lightness of touch and passages of thoughtful contemplation that befit the season. A perfect stocking filler.

It’s the most unusual and surprising book and I haven’t been able to put it down.