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Festive cheer
This special page brings together FT Weekend’s seasonal coverage featuring Jancis Robinson’s wine recommendations, Rowley Leigh’s recipes, our critics’ choices of entertainment for the holiday period and the year’s best books.
There are also gift guides from our Style editors, timely recommendations from the Money team, and, in the spirit of more cautious times, features on thrift stores that are bucking the downturn, and an introduction to this year’s FT charity WaterAid. The page will be updated regularly in the run-up to Christmas with further ideas and recommendations.
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Food and drink
Gifts for food lovers
From Italian truffles to hampers, these treats will bring pleasure to any gourmand
Christmas whites
Online extra: The FT’s wine writer lists 75 white wines she recommends for Christmas drinking
No champagne, no gain
In the last of her four-part guide to festive drinking, Jancis Robinson selects the bubbly
Fuchsia Dunlop’s recipes
How to make spicy Sichuanese turkey and Chinese mince-pie dumplings
Rowley makes Irish spiced beef
Slideshow: Rowley Leigh, the FT’s cookery writer, shows you how to make seasonal spiced beef
Red wines for the season
Online extra: Jancis Robinson recommends more than 60 reds for drinking this Christmas
Rowley Leigh’s seasonal recipes
Gift guides
Gift guide: Last minute presents
Glamorous and utilitarian hats, bags, accessories and other timeless sundry items
Gift guide: Gardening books
Robin Lane Fox selects this year’s top titles, and lists the best bookshops in New York, Paris and London for expert advice
Gift guide: Paintings
The Bankside Gallery and Flowers East are showing affordable art on a small scale
Gift guide: Beauty products
Find both limited edition and everyday indulgence in skincare, make-up and fragrances
Gift guide: Accessories
Whether dramatically luxe or classic and practical, these items go beyond the holidays
Gift guide: After dark
Bring sparkle, warmth and personality to basic night wear, and keep cosy with indoor luxury
Gift guide: Bespoke items
What to give to people so they don’t get upset? We pick the season’s best made-to-order presents
Gift guide: Gardening
From truffle trees to vegetable seeds and with prices ranging from free to outrageous, here are some of the more creative gifts for gardeners
Gift guide: Design
An antique Jacobite goblet and a doorstop from European oak feature in this outstanding selection of gifts for family and friends
Books
Fiction of the year
Podcast: Rosie Blau, FT books editor, and colleagues discuss daydreaming teenagers to 9/11 and cricket
The reading year: Non-fiction
The year’s top titles in the fields of business, history, science and religion, politics, arts, travel, food and sport
The reading year: Fiction
The best of the year’s novels, poetry, children’s and teen fiction selected by the FT’s critics
Books of the year
Podcast: Rosie Blau, the FT’s books editor, and colleagues discuss their picks for the year, which take in the worlds of genius, Pakistan and trade
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