Some go for imaginative escapes into sun-baked stories, I want plenty of snow and roaring fires. How about you?
What's your favourite fireside read, the book you go back to every winter? That's the question Waterstone's has asked a host of authors, and the results are an intriguing mix of snowy stories and warm weather, new and old. Ali Smith goes for Tove Jansson's The Summer Book ("a piece of light: what better to keep you warm through the darker months?"), while Jonathan Coe plumps for Sherlock Holmes ("The Blue Carbuncle is one of the best Christmas stories ever written - and the warmth of the friendship between Holmes and Watson could melt the London snow"). ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/nov/24/good-winter-reading
What's your favourite fireside read, the book you go back to every winter? That's the question Waterstone's has asked a host of authors, and the results are an intriguing mix of snowy stories and warm weather, new and old. Ali Smith goes for Tove Jansson's The Summer Book ("a piece of light: what better to keep you warm through the darker months?"), while Jonathan Coe plumps for Sherlock Holmes ("The Blue Carbuncle is one of the best Christmas stories ever written - and the warmth of the friendship between Holmes and Watson could melt the London snow"). ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/nov/24/good-winter-reading
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