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.
'Spar- sholt... sounds like part of an engine. Or a gun.' Set in five parts, The Sparsholt Affair spans five decades from the Blitz to the present day. It examines the events leading up to a public scandal involving David Sparsholt, and the life he and his son lead afterwards.
Starting in an Oxford college during the Blitz, and taking on London's gay nightclub scene, the seventies, the nineties and the present day, the The Line of Beauty author spools out his usual witty prose to beautifully skirt around the affair and focus on his favourite subjects: feelings, longings and findings after the dust settles.
