Like Obiter, you may be a curmudgeon who dreads Christmas as a time for suffering relatives who have the temerity to earn more than you.

If so, we have the perfect antidote to festive gloom - More Morello Letters, the sequel to the much-loved Morello Letters, published in 2006. Penned by City solicitor Duncan McNair, both books take the form of letters to the great and good from ‘pen pal to the superstars’ Mrs Morello and her deranged menagerie in London’s Ealing.

In their fractured logic and rambling whimsy, the missives bring to mind Peter Cook in his pomp, and you can’t say fairer than that. And of course the replies are often very funny too. Obiter’s favourite is a letter to Glasgow institution Rangers Football Club, seeking to hire Ibrox stadium ‘for a colossal meeting of druids, ovates and some bards’ - ‘can we each hold a candle?’