Modern fiction for a ski trip: snow/ alps/ mountain/ nature/ winter themed?

[Stanley38]

Any recommendations? I wish I'd not read the snow child already. :-(

[JiltedJohnsJulie]

Damn, was going to suggest the Snow Child

[TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross]

Heidi

[TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross]

Geraldine McCaughrean's The White Darkness is YA but absorbing.

Have never read Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow or Snow Falling on Cedars but guess they must be snowy?

[ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe]

The beginning of Lace is set in a Swiss boarding shool.

[Starlingsintheslipstream]

I always intend to use this site www.tripfiction.com for holiday reading but generally forget - any good to you?

[GreenGinger2]

Kate Mosse- The Winter Ghosts

[CoteDAzur]

Anything but Into Thin Air.

[Stanley38]

Agreed Cote!

Thank you for all the other recommendations and that website, starling. I am going to have a look at the all now :-)

[TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross]

Oh yes, don't read Touching The Void either!

[JiltedJohnsJulie]

Into Thin Air is in a list of books I've started but were too dire to continue with.

[CoteDAzur]

Don't get me wrong, Into Thin Air is a fantastic book.

I started reading it when on a ski trip, thinking I might want to read something related to mountains & snow. It was all great for a while, as they fit ready for the expedition, camaraderie, excitement etc. Then disaster struck.

I remember taking DD to her ski class the next day in the thick fog, and thinking "This is a mistake. I'll never find her again"

Yes, read that book but not when on a mountain.

[grendel]

I'm going through a bit of a cold northern phase at the moment! What about:

Michelle Paver - Dark Matter (psychological mystery/thriller on arctic research trip)

Steff Penney - Under a Pole Star (more arctic exploration this time in Greenland in 1890s, but in fact quite an (ahem) steamy love story too)

I also loved another of Steff Penney's previous books - Tenderness of Wolves - lots of trekking through snow in remote American West

Kim Leine - The Prophets of Eternal Fjord (another one set in Greenland in the 1790s; hard to describe; Not that much about nature to be honest, more about religion, the human condition, and the grimness of life in a Danish colony; I've just finished it and thought it was great but it's a bit gruelling. Anyone else read it?)

Hannah Kent - Burial Rites (1820s Iceland; woman convicted of murder; lots of details about grimness of life in Iceland)

Lionel Davidson - Kolymsky Heights - totally different to the preceeding recomendations. Modern-ish spy thiller set in deepest Siberia. Absolute page turner.

[tripfiction]

Try our collated novels/books set around snowsports over on Pinterest uk.pinterest.com/tripfiction/book-collection-snowsports-ski-snowboard/ Some good reads there....

[Ladydepp]

The wonderful Terra Incognita by Sara Wheeler.