Christmas

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (1892/1984/1991)

"Remarkable, Holmes!", "Meretricious, Watson." "And a Happy New Year."

Dec 20, 2025 • The Editors and Tobias Sturt

Father Christmas

Raymond Briggs (Hamish Hamilton, 1973)

Dec 13, 2025 • Tobias Sturt

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Say, what gives?

Dec 6, 2025 • The Editors and Tobias Sturt

Christmas Movie Season 2025

And a one, two, three, four...

Dec 2, 2025 • The Editors

The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Special (1969—1980)

What do you think of it so far?

Dec 21, 2024 • Tobias Sturt

Batman Returns (1992)

Mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it. A kiss can be even deadlier if you mean it.

Dec 7, 2024 • Tobias Sturt

Moominvalley in November

Tove Jansson (Puffin, 1971)

Nov 2, 2024 • Tobias Sturt

The Best Way to Spread Gen X Cheer

Over-analysing ‘Elf’

Dec 23, 2023 • The Editors

He’s making a list

When he was six, my son devised an unimprovable experiment to find out whether Father Christmas existed.

Dec 16, 2023 • Rowan Davies

Cassandra Darke

Christmas in the everyday

Dec 9, 2023 • Rowan Davies

The other Christmas stories

Sitting down with the Christmas Radio Times and a highlighter

Dec 2, 2023 • Tobias Sturt

It’s A Wonderful Script

Every time a bell rings, a writer gets residuals

Dec 24, 2022 • The Editors

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