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A wintery book please

14 replies

SoundsOfThunder · 01/12/2022 14:08

Lots of weather and landscape descriptions with a good story is what I'd love to read.
I've read Michelle Paver's books, which are great.
Any suggestions please?

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PerkingFaintly · 01/12/2022 14:15

"Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" has the most marvellous writing about wintry landscapes and is a fabulous story – but at 1000-odd pages it's a bit of an investment if you're just there for the landscape.

Orangesarenottheonlyfruit · 01/12/2022 14:16

I love an atmospheric read, see if any of these take your fancy:

The Winter Guest by WC Ryan
Snow Falling on Cedars
Hex by Thomas Huevelt
Pine by Francine Toon
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

PerkingFaintly · 01/12/2022 14:18

Jack London's "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" are set in freezing land and weather, of course, but I'm afraid I can't remember much about the descriptions.

Jaffacakeorisitabiscuit · 01/12/2022 14:22

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow has some really good descriptions of wintery weather.

The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder

ReedOfFate · 02/12/2022 14:05

PerkingFaintly · 01/12/2022 14:15

"Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" has the most marvellous writing about wintry landscapes and is a fabulous story – but at 1000-odd pages it's a bit of an investment if you're just there for the landscape.

I immediately thought of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey might also suit. And Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising

PerkingFaintly · 02/12/2022 14:18

It's marvellous, isn't it, ReedOfFate?

I was going to say haunting, but that's not quite right. Susanna Clarke loves her chill, wintry landscapes, and is at home in them, and they in her. They are bleak yet somehow rich – which should be an oxymoron, but in Clarke's world isn't.

I've just realised while writing this that Clarke's winter is what I look for now in Christmas cards.

Riverlee · 02/12/2022 23:21

Also came on to say The Snow Child.

No night is too long -Barbara Vine

GigantosaurusRex · 02/12/2022 23:27

@Orangesarenottheonlyfruit I was thinking the besr and the nightingale too. I loved it.

daisydalrymple · 02/12/2022 23:29

The sittaford mystery by Agatha Christie

VittysCardigan · 02/12/2022 23:38

Seconding The Bear & The Nightingale. The other 2 in the series are great too.

SoundsOfThunder · 03/12/2022 00:19

Thank you. I'm really looking forward to browsing through all theseSmile

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SeatonCarew · 03/12/2022 00:53

l love to read Rosamund Pilcher's Winter Solstice at this time of the year, I find it a very warm and comforting book.

IceandIndigo · 03/12/2022 14:27

The People’s Act of Love, James Meek

Cherrypi · 03/12/2022 14:56

To the bright edge of the world by Eowyn Ivey

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