Best winter reads 2017 – For your perusing pleasure
'You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.'
– C. S. Lewis.
Now that it's winter, we're inclined to agree with Mr Lewis. So indulge in our list of the best winter reads 2017 has to offer. We've chosen our favourite from the Man Booker shortlist, a chilling ghost story and Young Adult fiction that's been billed as the next Harry Potter.
It's a time for curling up and staying warm with nothing but the pages of your trusted companion for company. These recommendations will ensure that you pick a good one. Happy reading.
Elmet is by the youngest author on the Booker Prize longlist, 29-year-old Fiona Mozley from York. This, her debut novel, was started on a train to Kings Cross and written, in part, on her mobile phone as she commuted.
The rural story is set in Yorkshire, where Daniel and Cathy's Daddy is raising them in a little copse called Elmet, what Daniel calls their 'strange, sylvan otherworld'. After years of uncertain existence on the fringes of society, here they learn to forage and fend for themselves. But the woods are not theirs alone, and something is making Daddy very angry.
The Times Literary Supplement called it a 'rural gothic fable'.This book is perfect for fans of The Essex Serpent.
