BETH KEMPTON

Here you can find my recommended festive reading, including the books used in the process of researching my book Calm Christmas and a Happy New Year…

Ackroyd, Peter, Dickens (London: QPD, 1990)

Anon., Keep Calm at Christmas (London: Ebury, 2011)

Aswan, Robert (ed.), A Mind of Winter (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2002)

Atkins, Caroline, Country Living Country Christmas (London: Collins & Brown, 2001)

Atticus, Love Her Wild (London: Headline, 2017)

Babey, Georgina (ed.), A New Forest Christmas (Tiverton: Halsgrove, 2000)

Balick, Dr Aaron, The Little Book of Calm (London: Rider, 2018)

Bijkerk, Pia Jane, The Everyday Alchemist’s Festive Season Reimagined (Self published, 2018)

Bird, Malcolm and Dart, Alan, The Christmas Handbook (London: Pavilion, 1986)

Buckingham, Alan, Allotment Month by Month (London: Dorling Kindersley, 2019)

Beeton, Isabella (ed.), Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management (London: Chancellor Press, 1982)

Booth, Frances, The Distraction Trap (London: Pearson, 2013)

Brunner, Bernd, Inventing the Christmas Tree (trans. Benjamin A. Smith) (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012)

Carey, Diana and Large, Judy, Festivals, Family and Food (Stroud: Hawthorn Press, 1982)

Carrigy, Aoife (ed.), The Irish Countrywomen’s Association Book of Christmas (Dublin: Gill Books, 2015)

Clare, Horatio, The Light in the Dark (London: Elliott & Thompson, 2018)

Coghlan, Alexandra, Carols from King’s (London: BBC Books, 2016)

Cook, Sian and Williams, Margaret, Women’s Institute Complete Christmas (London: Simon & Schuster, 2010)

Corbin, Pam, Preserves: River Cottage Handbook No. 2 (London: Bloomsbury, 2008)

Dalai Lama, Tutu, Archbishop Desmond and Abrams, Douglas, The Book of Joy (London: Hutchinson, 2016)

Dearmer, Percy, Williams, R. Vaughan and Shaw, Martin, The Oxford Book of Carols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1928)

Erskine, Gizzi, Slow: Food Worth Taking Time Over (London: HarperCollins, 2018)

Fetell Lee, Ingrid, Joyful (London: Rider, 2018)

Flanders, Judith, Christmas: A Biography (London: Picador, 2017)

Forest, Danu, The Magical Year (London: Watkins, 2016)

Forsyth, Mark, A Christmas Cornucopia (London: Penguin Viking, 2016)

Frost, Robert, The Collected Poems of Robert Frost (London: Vintage, 2001)

Goldberg, Natalie, Writing Down the Bones (audiobook) (Louisville, KT: Sounds True, 2008)

Hahnemann, Trine, Scandinavian Christmas (London: Quadrille, 2017)

Harrison, Melissa (ed.), Winter (London: Elliott & Thompson, 2016)

Harrison, Michael and Stuart-Clark, Christopher (eds), The Oxford Book of Christmas Poems (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983)

Hass, Robert, The Essential Haiku (London: Bloodaxe, 2013)

Holden, Edith, The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady ((London: Michael Joseph, 1977)

Hollis, Sarah (ed.), The Country Diary Christmas Book (London: Michael Joseph, 1993)

Ivens, Sarah, Forest Therapy: Seasonal Ways to Embrace Nature for a Happier You (London: Piatkus, 2018)

Kagge, Erling, Silence in the Age of Noise (trans. Becky L. Crook) (London: Penguin, 2018)

Kamenetzky, Lizzie, The Great British Bake Off Christmas (London: BBC Books, 2014)

Kamenetzky, Lizzie, Winter Cabin Cooking (London: Ryland, Peters & Small, 2015)

Kirchsteiger, Ernst, Swedish Christmas Traditions (New York: Skyhorse, 2009)

Lawrence, Francine (ed.), Country Christmas (London: Leopard, 1995)

Lawson, Nigella, Nigella Christmas (London: Chatto & Windus, 2008)

Leendertz, Lia, The Almanac (London: Unbound, 2017)

Lee, Laurie, Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year (London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2015)

Lewis, Celia, An Illustrated Country Year (London: Bloomsbury, 2013)

Mabey, Richard, Dreams of the Good Life (London: Penguin, 2014)

Marsden, Rhodri, A Very British Christmas (London: HarperCollins, 2017)

Matthews, John, The Winter Solstice (London: Thorsons, 1998)

McAlary, Brooke, Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World (Illinois: Sourcebooks, 2017)

McFadden, Joshua and Holberg, Martha, Six Seasons (New York: Artisan, 2017)

McVickar Edwards, Carolyn, The Return of the Light (New York: Avalon, 2000)

Miller, Daniel (ed.), Unwrapping Christmas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993)

Mitchell, Emma, Making Winter (London: LOM Art, 2017)

Mitchell, Emma, The Wild Remedy (London: Michael O’Mara, 2019)

Monks, Gillian, Merry Midwinter (London: Unbound, 2018)

Narain, Nadia and Narain Phillips, Katia, Rituals for Every Day (London: Hutchinson, 2018)

Nichols, Wallace J., Blue Mind: How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and Better at What You Do (London: Abacus, 2016)

Nieschlag, Lisa and Wentrup, Lars, New York Christmas (Crows Nest, NSW: Murdoch, 2017)

Norman, Jill (ed.), Elizabeth David’s Christmas (London: Michael Joseph, 2018)

Oliver, Mary, Winter Hours (New York: Mariner Books, 2000)

O’Donohue, John, To Bless the Space between Us (London: Convergent, 2008)

O’Morain, Padraig, Mindfulness for Worriers (London: Yellow Kite, 2015)

Parker, Priya, The Art of Gathering (London: Portfolio Penguin, 2018)

Parker Bowles, Tom, Christmas and Other Winter Feasts (London: Fourth Estate, 2018)

Payne, Kim John and Ross, Lisa M., Simplicity Parenting (New York: Ballantine Books, 2009)

Peters, Jo, Slow: Finding Peace and Purpose in a Frantic World (London: Summersdale, 2018)

Raedisch, Linda, The Old Magic of Christmas (Woodbury: Llewelyn, 1968)

Rains, Valerie (ed.), Country Living Christmas at Home (New York: Hearst, 2018)

Rantzen, Esther (ed.), Once Upon a Christmas (London: Michael Joseph, 1996)

Raven, Sarah, Complete Christmas: Food and Flowers (London: Bloomsbury, 2008)

Read, Miss, Village Christmas (London: Penguin, 1984)

Rogers, Megan, World War II Wartime Christmas Cookbook (Self published, 2012)

Roud, Steve, The English Year (London: Penguin Reference, 2006)

Slater, Joseph, Ferguson, Alfred R. and Ferguson Carr, Jean (eds), The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume III: Essays: Second Series (Cambridge, MA: Bellhop Press, 1844)

Slater, Nigel, The Christmas Chronicles (London: Fourth Estate, 2017)

Smith, Ali, Winter (London: Penguin: 2018)

Spence, Ian, Royal Horticultural Society Gardening through The Year (London: Dorling Kindersley, 2019)

Stimson, Ellen, An Old Fashioned Christmas (New York: The Countryman Press, 2015)

Storr, Will, The Science of Storytelling (London: William Collins, 2019)

Struthers, Jane, The Book of Christmas (London: Ebury, 2012)

Thompson, Flora, Lark Rise to Candleford (London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2008)

Thomsen Brits, Louisa, The Book of Hygge (London: Ebury, 2016)

Tolkien, J.R.R., Letters from Father Christmas (London: HarperCollins, 2015)

Weir, Laura, Cosy (London: Yellow Kite, 2018)

Wilson, Paul, The Little Book of Calm (London: Penguin Life, 2016)

Winterson, Jeanette, Christmas Days (London: Jonathan Cape, 2016)

Woodward, Antony and Penn, Robert, The Wrong Kind of Snow (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007)

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