Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the tinsel-tastic world of Christmas. Never again be found wanting when the conversation turns to how the most important religious festival on the Christian Calendar has been superseded by rampant commercialisation, why ‘Christmas Creep’ seems to start earlier every year, and why divorce lawyers report a surge in new instructions on the first working day after the holiday. This Bluffer’s Guide will help you get the most value from Christmas at the least cost to your wallet and sanity. It will teach you everything you need to know and say about the origins and evolution of the biggest religious feast day of them all (in case that should be forgotten). But, most importantly, it will see you safely through the holy festival of shopping and indigestion just in time to prepare you fully for the next one. DO SAY ‘Of course, Jesus was actually hypostatic, i.e. both fully human and fully divine.’ DON’T SAY (at a reindeer sanctuary) ‘Donner und Blitzen! Where’s Rudolf?’