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.
'Men's children give them away. It was why Dexter rarely did business with any man before meeting his family.' In the early chapters of Jennifer Egan's Manhattan Beach, we are introduced to Dexter, the dodgy nightclub owner.
Dexter meets Eddie Kerrigan, the mobster, and his young daughter Anna during the Great Depression. Later, during the upheaval of World War II in Brooklyn, Anna has become one of the first female divers in Brooklyn Navy Yard and Eddie is gone. In a landscape of left-behind women and missing men, Anna goes looking for clues to find her absent father.
Long and detailed, the New York Times called it 'a big novel that moves with agility'. Egan's name will be familiar to those who read 2011's Pulitzer Prizewinner, A Visit from the Goon Squad.
