Cosy reads for lockdown

[frenchand]

What are your top cozy reads for by the fire with a cup of tea in one of the bleakest winters ever?

I love literary fiction, classics, beautiful sentences... open to children's books too :)

Have you read Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell? It's beautifully written and takes you to another time and place, totally. I'm not sure you'd call it cozy, but if you like Shakespeare you will appreciate it.

I haven't!

Good idea, I've been eyeing that up for a while...

Well, I've just started one called "Lockdown" by Peter May. 😃😎 I thought it sounded very topical for today, and so it is!

It is a crime novel set in London, which has found itself at the epicentre of a killer flu pandemic and in Lockdown.

I'm only about a third of the way through at the moment, but I am enjoying it.

Peter May says in a foreword that he researched and wrote it during the avian flu epidemic of 2005 but it wasn't published because editors in the UK thought it unrealistic.

Suddenly, in light of the Covid 19 pandemic and lockdowns of 2020 the publishers changed their mind and it is now in the shops / on Amazon! 😃 I wonder why? 😉

Michelle Vernal The Guest House on the Green series.
Bought by accident for my kindle, it had me LOL set in Ireland so funny such a descriptive writer, you can imagine yourself in the rooms.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt is a good one as well, for a well written page turner.

I'm almost finished The Stand by Stephen King, it's about a deadly virus, not exactly cosy! When it's finished I'm going to re read some Christmas themed books. The Christmas Sisters by Sarah Morgan and Christmas at the Candied Apple Cafe by Katherine Garbera are definitely cosy.

Little Women

I’m reading The Stand and have Lockdown too. I think I may be overdoing it
So I downloaded Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher as an antidote.