Home For Christmas
Published on 9. October 2017
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-84717-965-4 (ISBN)
Description
Join Alice Taylor this Christmas as she welcomes us into her home and shows us the traditions of her family's Christmas. Alice looks back over her past Christmases and prepares for this Christmas.
With all the warmth of a winter fire, Alice takes us through the exciting preparation for Christmas from getting the perfect tree to baking those very crucial puddings and pies.
Alice also give us a intimate insight into her Christmas Eve and Christmas day rituals and talks us through her favourite Christmas recipes. She tells how the Christmas foods were made when she was a child, using the bastable and the range, and how she prepares them now.
Alice loves Christmas and her huge enjoyment of the season fills this book with pleasure and delight.
With all the warmth of a winter fire, Alice takes us through the exciting preparation for Christmas from getting the perfect tree to baking those very crucial puddings and pies.
Alice also give us a intimate insight into her Christmas Eve and Christmas day rituals and talks us through her favourite Christmas recipes. She tells how the Christmas foods were made when she was a child, using the bastable and the range, and how she prepares them now.
Alice loves Christmas and her huge enjoyment of the season fills this book with pleasure and delight.
Reviews / Votes
a must for those of you who like to put their feet up in front of the fire and read about the joys of Christmas ... a pure joy * The Kerryman * a treasure trove of precious Christmas memories guaranteed to warm the soul of readers this festive season ... Alice's book is a journey worth taking ... charmingly seasonal * The Kerryman * part memoir, part festive compendium ... her silky prose which so captivated readers in her previous memoirs such as To School Through the Fields and Do You Remember?, is the perfect craft to lend itself to such a warm and evocative time ... Taylor's joy of everything that surrounds the festivities permeates each page, with a whole chapter dedicated to even the most incidental of tasks, such as collecting the moss in woods near her home to create her traditional crib and manger * The Sunday Business Post Magazine * the cover ... is as romantic as you could find in its depiction of a Christmas wreath on a front door, and it's a fair indication of the contents ... these reminiscences of rural Cork Christmases will be just the fare her devoted readers crave ... beautifully produced and illustrated * Tuam Herald * a beautifully produced new book about the festive season * Irish Examiner * this much loved Irish author looks back over her past Christmases and prepares for this year's celebrations * Belfast Telegraph *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
Publishing group
O'Brien Press Ltd
Illustrations
110 Halftones, color
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
471 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84717-965-4 (9781847179654)
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Alice Taylor lives in the village of Innishannon in County Cork, in a house attached to the local supermarket and post office. Her first book, To School Through the Fields, was published in 1988. It was an immediate success and quickly became the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland.
Alice has written nearly twenty books since then, largely exploring her beloved village and the ways of life in rural Ireland. She has also written poetry and fiction: her first novel, The Woman of the House, was an immediate bestseller. Most recently, she wrote a children's picture book with her daughter Lena Angland, called Ellie and the Fairy Door.
Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards for her design including The IDI (Irish Design Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year, the IDI Promotional Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning, and a Children's Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning With P: New Poems from Irish Poets. She has illustrated many books, including Best-Loved Oscar Wilde, Best-Loved Yeats, The Most Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl O'Neill, a special edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, and A Terrible Beauty by Mairead Ashe Fitzgerald. Her other books are Irish Thatch and, with Eoin O'Brien, Best-Loved Irish Ballads.
Alice has written nearly twenty books since then, largely exploring her beloved village and the ways of life in rural Ireland. She has also written poetry and fiction: her first novel, The Woman of the House, was an immediate bestseller. Most recently, she wrote a children's picture book with her daughter Lena Angland, called Ellie and the Fairy Door.
Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards for her design including The IDI (Irish Design Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year, the IDI Promotional Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning, and a Children's Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning With P: New Poems from Irish Poets. She has illustrated many books, including Best-Loved Oscar Wilde, Best-Loved Yeats, The Most Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl O'Neill, a special edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, and A Terrible Beauty by Mairead Ashe Fitzgerald. Her other books are Irish Thatch and, with Eoin O'Brien, Best-Loved Irish Ballads.