So, too, will Best in Show: Knit Your Own Dog (Collins and Brown, £12.99) by Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne. “Stitch that bitch”, as the authors cheerfully announce. This is a quirkily charming book and the results look brilliant (including a Westie with an adorable wispy face). Another one for the doers and makers is Jelly with Bompas & Parr (Pavilion, £14.99) by Sam Bompas and Harry Parr. Though the recipes are easy to follow, the wobbling dishes are spectacular: anything can be made into jelly – champagne or liquorice, for instance, and there is bubblegum vodka jelly, and another that, mildly disturbingly, glows in the dark.

From sweets to sweats: the detailed instructions and splendid illustrations will mean that those who like to hotfoot it outdoors on Boxing Day will love Britain by Bike (Batsford, £16.99) by Jane Eastoe; their stay-at-home chums will prefer to perspire slightly less with Ed Ikin’sThoughtful Gardening (National Trust, £14.99), which manages both to offer excellent practical advice on keeping the shrubberies in shape and to look rather elegant. Heartier husbands will love You Cannot Be Serious! (Fourth Estate, £14.99) by Matthew Norman, a selection of the most tormenting aspects of sport that’ll break the ice between male members of different families.