The 50 best winter reads
From bestselling thrillers to prize-winning comedies, Kate Watson-Smyth gets the experts’ verdict on the hottest books to curl-up with - whatever your literary leaning
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This week’s panel
Tom Sutcliffe, television critic of ‘The Independent’ and Booker Prize judge;
Rebecca Armstrong, deputy features editor of ‘The Independent’, crime fiction addict and bookworm;
Greg Eden, online content editor of Waterstones;
David Miller, director of literary agency Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd. His novel ‘Today’ will be published by Atlantic books in the spring.
Reader email: 50best@independent.co.uk
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- 1 James Van Der Beek: New doors open for Dawson
- 2 One is nipping to Tesco: Jubilant Jubilee royals as seen by Alison Jackson
- 3 Watch The Throne – Jay-Z and Kanye West, O2 Arena, London
- 4 Last night's viewing: Hit & Miss, Sky Atlantic; My Big Fat Fetish, Channel 4
- 5 Future's not Orange: book prize loses its sponsor
- 6 Forgotten Authors: No 8: William Sansom
- 7 Joe Strummer: The angry young man who grew up
- 8 Jedward reach Eurovision final in Baku
- 9 Is the Hump sunk before singing a note at Eurovision?
- 10 Vandals deface 'racist' portrait of Jacob Zuma that ANC tried to ban
- 1 Double trouble at JP Morgan: trader's losses could exceed $7bn
- 2 Brazil rocked by abortion for 9-year-old rape victim
- 3 Queen tried to use state poverty fund to heat Buckingham Palace
- 4 Society: The only way is Finland
- 5 Portugal 'sells' Ronaldo to Spain in £160m deal on national debt
- 6 Manal al-Sharif: 'They just messed with the wrong woman'
- 7 Eden Hazard: Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United in race to sign a potential global superstar
- 8 Grace Dent: Personally, I'd fire bullying teens from a cannon and relocate the 'feral' kids to Chipping Norton
- 9 French in uproar over oral sex anti-smoking posters
- 10 Coke reveals its secret: It may need to carry a cancer warning
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