I'd love to be given, as a present, a signed copy of Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004 (Penguin) by Hendrik Hertzberg, whose work I admire very much.
Whether it's to be given as a present, or to be enjoyed at your own Christmas dinner, we've helped narrow down this dilemma by asking 10 sommeliers from Michelin-starred restaurants from around the world on their recommended bottles for the season and which dishes to pair them with.
A memento: I have a very gadgety travel clock that I was given as a present.
Which is the best book you've ever been given as a present?
However, lawyers for the Hoffe family say they were given as a present by Brod to Esther Hoffe and were hers to do with as she wished.
With an 8-year-old daughter to support, he sold a motorcycle he was given as a present after the rescue.
If you capture someone and he's got a gold cross round his neck, to steal that as a personal possession is totally wrong". The case of Sgt Danny Nightingale, who was sentenced to 18 months' military detention for keeping a 9mm Glock pistol he says was given as a present in Iraq, highlights a different concern - weapons as war trophies.
One of the leading roles in Safety Not Guaranteed is played by the writer-director Mark Duplass, who with his brother, Jay, pioneered mumblecore, most notably in their picture The Puffy Chair, the shaggy dog tale of a search around the American south for an old lounge chair to be given as a birthday present to their father.
It hardly needs the gloss that the portrait is of Freud's first wife, Kitty Garman, cradling one of the pair of bull terriers they were given as a wedding present - and that the marriage did not survive.
While the princess was certainly at Treetops on the night her father, George VI, died 60 years ago on 6 February, 1952, she was not told until the following afternoon, by which time she had returned to a fishing lodge called Sagana, 20 miles away, that she had been given as a wedding present.
She worked in the state legislature for decades, and for more than 60 years she also --remarkably -- ran the business of the farm she was given as a wedding present by my great-grandparents.
