Well, the weather outside IS frightful. And the nights are drawing in. Gone are the days of flip-flops and shorts. The scarves and gloves are out of storage. The big coat is on the back of your chair. If we're staying in and enjoying the warmth, what better way to curl up with these brrrrrrrr-illiantly cold books.
Cold weather, cold books
Well, the weather outside IS frightful. And the nights are drawing in. Gone are the days of flip-flops and shorts. The scarves and gloves are out of storage. The big coat is on the back of your chair. If we're staying in and enjoying the warmth, what better way to curl up with these brrrrrrrr-illiantly cold books.
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Half-Blood Blues
Serpent's TaleEnthralling, vividly written and entirely believable, this is a striking and accomplished novel from Canadian-based Edugyan. Her achievement is to have created a strong, unique voice in protagonist Sid, a bass player in a jazz band in 1930s Berlin. -
I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train
FaberI Could Ride All Day … highlights the diversity and sheer excitement of Hobbs's writing. It also proves that well-written short stories are more than a match for their longer and flabbier cousin, the novel. -
The Snow Child
Headline ReviewThe tough existence of frontier life is detailed without sentiment by Ivey, but with a bracing beauty in the tradition of the Russian fairytale it references. -
Blue Heaven
Arrow BooksWritten by one of the head writers of Frasier, this novel relocates Wodehouse/Evelyn Waugh-style hijinks to upper-class Manhattan homes, featuring an ebullient cast of loud and proud characters all scheming and scamming to get what they want. -
The Blue Book
Jonathan CapeElizabeth Barber is crossing the Atlantic by liner with her perfectly adequate boyfriend, Derek, who might be planning to propose. In fleeing the UK - temporarily - Elizabeth may also be in flight from her past and the charismatic Arthur,... -
Snowdrops
Atlantic BooksSnowdrops is a taut, lean, icily involving novel that is as sharp as an arctic blast. Full of palpable danger, moral ambiguity and with a tense, suspense plot, this is a debut novel of rare power and conviction. -
Snow
Faber and FaberSnow is a profoundly modern and universal novel, interested less in the real-life historical drama that forms the backdrop than in the emotional and moral dilemma of Jakob Torn -
Tail of the Blue Bird
VintageNii Ayikwei Parkes' debut novel is a poetic, dreamy story about the influx of technology and modernity into rural Ghana, and the uneasy relationship between science and spirit. -
Annabel
Jonathan CapeIn Annabel, Kathleen Winter has written a compelling and convincing debut novel that reads almost as a modern myth – a myth based on the taboo reality of intersexuality. -
Dark Matter
VintageSebastian and Oskar have been friends since their days studying physics at university, when both were considered future Nobel Prize candidates. But their lives took divergent paths, as did their scientific views. Whenever Oskar comes to visit from his prestigious...
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