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Author: William McInnes
Publisher: Hachette
Genre: Non Fiction
Released: 27 October, 2020
ISBN: 9780733644733

The Christmas Tales

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Synopsis

'Tis the season to be jolly! One of Australia's favourite storytellers is back with a collection of stories about everyone's favourite family holiday.I can't help it if I'm a boring conservative dag, but I love Christmas, always have and hopefully always will. Whatever brand of faith you fly under, even if you proclaim you don't have one, Christmas is a time of generosity, good citizenship and decency.It's the holiday where shopping centres become a sea of dazed shoppers bearing checklists as long as your arm, lunch is a never-ending buffet of prawns and ham and your electricity bill is doubly struck by having to run the fan all day and keep those decorative lights blinking through the night.William McInnes, bestselling author of Fatherhood, Worse Things Happen at Sea, and A Man's got to Have a Hobby, tackles the silly season in a way only he can - telling stories brimming with good humour and nostalgia, to remind us what Christmas is all about: family.

About the author

William McInnes

William McInnes is one of Australia's most popular writers, delighting readers with his memoirs A Man's Got To Have a Hobby and That'd Be Right, his novels Cricket Kings and The Laughing Clowns, and his insight into Australian life since the 1940s, written with Essential Media and Entertainment, The Making of Modern Australia. In 2011, with his wife Sarah Watt he co-wrote Worse Things Happen at Sea, which was named the best non-fiction title in the ABIA and the Indie Awards in 2012.An award-winning actor, William has won two Logies and an AFI Award for Best Actor for his role in the film 'Unfinished Sky'. He received critical and public acclaim for his leading role in the film 'Look Both Ways', written and directed by Sarah Watt, and starred in the ABC television series, 'The Time of Our Lives'. William grew up in Queensland and now lives in Melbourne with his two children.