The 50 best winter reads

From fantastic fiction to brilliant biographies, this is the season to stock up your home library. Sophie Morris selects the hottest books for the colder months

Saturday, 14 November 2009

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In pictures: 50 best winter reads

This week’s panel

Maxim Jakubowski, author, and former owner of bookshop Murder One;

Peter Parker, biographer, author of ‘The Last Veteran’ (4th Estate, £14.99);

Michael Jones, head of books at Borders;

Joe Craig, author of the six books in the ‘Jimmy Coates’ series

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List pls

dennycranewhu wrote:

Saturday, 14 November 2009 at 12:55 am (UTC)

Is it possible to get a list that I can print off and take with me down to the lending library. It is far too dreary clicking thru image after image after image...

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Re: List pls

indystick wrote:

Wednesday, 18 November 2009 at 12:18 pm (UTC)

try buying the actual paper :)

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winter stars by Beatrice Lao

beatrice_lao wrote:

Sunday, 15 November 2009 at 11:54 am (UTC)

A balmy breeze
Heralded your arrival
In dwindling November...

winter stars - poems born between the Alps and the Tyrrhenian - a collection for all seasons.

http://www.amazon.com/winter-stars-poems-between-Tyrrhenian/dp/9889799928 (paperback)
http://www.amazon.com/winter-stars-poems-between-Tyrrhenian/dp/988979991X (silk bound)

Copies of both versions are made by me by hand.

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clubcat wrote:

Sunday, 15 November 2009 at 06:52 pm (UTC)

AWESOME book, I totally recommend it!

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Let He Who Is Not Guilty Cast the First Stone, Elliott Hall

dorosatt wrote:

Sunday, 15 November 2009 at 08:58 pm (UTC)

Should me buy this? Hmm . . . let I think about it.

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Lists ...

carl007 wrote:

Wednesday, 18 November 2009 at 10:54 am (UTC)

Not another list! Surely it can't be long until the 'list of the 50 best lists'.

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Omitted from list!

nick147 wrote:

Thursday, 19 November 2009 at 03:24 pm (UTC)

Why are the following omitted?! The Accidental, Ali Smith; The Crow Road, Iain Banks; On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan; On Beauty, Zadie Smith; The Rotters Club, Jonathan Coe; White City Blue, Tim Lott; An Equal Music, Vikram Seth; A Most Wanted Man, John le Carr�; Child 44,Tom Rob Smith; The Private Patient, PD James; Revelation, CJ Sansom; A Blessed Child, Linn Ullmann; The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor; Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks; Open Doors, Ian Rankin; The White Tiger, A Adiga;The De Clerambault Code,Nora Johnson; The Snowball: Warren Buffett &The Business of Life, Alice Shroeder; History - Kingmakers:The Invention of the Modern Middle East, Karl E Meyer & Shareen Blair Brysac; Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson.

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