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Jeanette Winterson will tour the US to talk about her latest novel Frankissstein, from 13 October until 2 December. Visit groveatlantic.com/frankissstein for more details and to book tickets. 

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Jeanette Winterson: Frankissstein

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Jeanette Winterson: ‘I wouldn’t be able to resist the temptation to find out what it’s like to live without a body’

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Jeanette will be reading from Christmas Days at the wonderful Shakespeare and Company bookshop, Paris on 19th December – click below for more information: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/eve...

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When do you open your Christmas presents? Do you cook turkey or duck? And who drinks that extra glass of sherry that gets left out on 24 December? Join Jeanette on 10th December at Islington Assembly Hall, where she’ll be […]

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I love Christmas. Here's a few bits from Why Be Happy that might explain why.
In Accrington there was always a huge tree outside the Market Hall, and the Salvation Army played carols there for most of December.
At Christmas time the bartering system was in full swing. We could offer Brussels Spouts on stalks from our allotment, apples wrapped in newspaper to make sauce, and best of all the once a year Cherry Brandy made from the morello cherry tree in the yard, and steeped half a year in the back of a cupboard on the way to Narnia.

It is Christmas! I love it! I can't help it. I have loved it since I was a child and I just can't give it up.
I have included a Christmas extract from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal - specifically Christmas in Accrington.

I am not leaving out Hanukkah or Diwali - just that this is Christmas for me. I have even had a huge Christmas sign painted and put up in my house in Spitalfields. Here is the photo. It is Christmas! I love it! I can't help it. I have loved it since I was a child and I just can't give it up.
I have included a Christmas extract from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal - specifically Christmas in Accrington.

I am not leaving out Hanukkah or Diwali - just that this is Christmas for me. I have even had a huge Christmas sign painted and put up in my house in Spitalfields. Here is the photo. It is Christmas! I love it! I can't help it. I have loved it since I was a child and I just can't give it up.
I have included a Christmas extract from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal - specifically Christmas in Accrington.

I am not leaving out Hanukkah or Diwali - just that this is Christmas for me. I have even had a huge Christmas sign painted and put up in my house in Spitalfields. Here is the photo.