Marooned in the snow stories

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For the winter I want to read stories about severe winter. One easy read is Sylvester by Georgette Heyer. A humble country pub on The Bath Road, deep snow, impassable road, titled visitor with one servant.
Any suggestions of titles please? Dickens? Any of the family sagas? Cynthia Harrod-Eagles?

There is the train in the snow in Orient Express. Any other trains?

The Snow Child- Eowyn Ivey

Kate Mosse’s novella The Winter Ghosts is an atmospheric read as the nights start to draw in. Love a good marooned in snow story!

Hahaha!!

The Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh.

Another vote for The Snow Child

Came on to say this, I'm just about to re-read it. Beautifully atmospheric.

Thanks for the ideas, I like the cosy crime 1930s ones.
The Sittaford Mystery: I like both the original book and the TV version version. They are so completely different, The name of the village and heavy snow is almost all they have in common.

Against the Ice by Ejnar Mikkelsen.

True story of a near disastrous expedition to explore Greenland.

Thanks for asking this! So many great replies. If you’re after some comic relief/something to listen to closer to Christmas that fits the genre, I really recommend Crimes Against Christmas by New Old Friends (you can find it in Apple Podcasts). It’s a comedy whodunnit riffing off And Then There We’re None and it’s extremely funny.

I didn't see the topic and was all ready to tell my story of being stranded in the snow for 12 hours in my car on the M25 at 8.5 months pregnant.....Damn!

@CurlewKate Do write it up Kate, I'm sure many would like to read it (I would).

www.amazon.co.uk/Dancing-Footman-Roderick-Alleyn-Mysteries/dp/1937384543

I love this book .

Great thread thanks

One by One, by Ruth Ware. A brilliant thriller. Work colleagues with conflicting agendas and money at stake, snowbound in a ski chalet. Will anyone come to rescue us? And by the way has anyone seen Jan? (can’t remember the names)

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/One-by-One/Ruth-Ware/9781668019399

Immediately thought of The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder. A book that has stuck in my mind since I read it when I was 8 or 9.

The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
Into Thin Air - Jon Krackauer (everest expedition goes wrong)
The Worst Journey In The World - Cherry Apsley-Garrard (Scott's Antarctic voyage)

@MrsFriskers I JUST came on to suggest The Worst Journey in the World! Not sure it has the coziness I suspect the OP is looking for...🤣

And play Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia Antarctica (the music from the film) while reading it...

<shivers>

@TressiliansStone My brother used to play that to me to make me cry when I was little.

"There go the ships..."
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Hmm, I suspect not @CurlewKate 😁

@TressiliansStone Noooooo!

We were in our 30s when db confessed to our mother. She was soooo angry with him!

Oh oh oh! The Box of Delights!!
(I suspect there might be a few people of my vintage on here....)

Four Against The Wilderness by Elmo Wortman, a true story about a father and 3 kids who got shipwrecked off the coast of Alaska in the winter of 1981.
It was later made into a TV movie called "Anything To Survive" starring Matt LeBlanc.

I would definitely recommend Alive by Piers Paul Read and Miracle in the Andes by Nandi Parrado, I am currently reading I Had to Survive by Roberto Canessa- another notable survivor.

Also a great read is Endurance by Alfred Lansing about Ernest Shackleton's voyage and subsequent battle to survive.