
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. For the rules see her blog.
This week’s topic is a Freebie and I’m focusing on books with Winter in the titles.
- A Winter Book by Tove Jansson – a collection of some of Tove Jansson’s best loved and most famous stories.
- The Nature of Winter by Jim Crumley – a nature writer reflecting on mountain legends, dear departed friends and an enduring fascination and deep love for nature.
- Winter: an Anthology for the Changing Seasons edited by Melissa Harrison – a collection of prose and poetry about the winter season.
- The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse – a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage set in the winter of 1928.
- Winter by Christopher Nicholson – a novel about the last years of the writer and poet Thomas Hardy and his second wife.
- Winter by Ali Smith – 4 four people, family and strangers spend Christmas in a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall but will there be enough room for them all?
- Winter Solstice by Rosemary Pilcher – about Elfrida and Oscar, in the evening of their lives, as the winter solstice brings love and solace.
- A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy – about an Irish woman, Chicky Starr, who opens a hotel, and the people who come to stay for the first week.
- Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons Book 4 – ice skating, blizzards, igloos and a polar expedition.
- The Willows in Winter by William Horwood – in this re-creation of The Wind in the Willows, William Horwood, the author of the Duncton trilogies, brings to life the characters of Badger, Water Rat, Mole and Toad.