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  • A Winter War by Tim Leach – book review

    A Winter War by Tim Leach – book review

    The latest novel from Tim Leach brings us deep into the world of the ancient Sarmatians, writes Professor Wu

  • Book review: December Stories I, by Ian Samson

    What’s that sound in the air? The crisp crunch of carollers footprints in the even evening December snow, perchance? Not a bit of it. That sound you hear is applause; the clapping of hands from all those souls for whom the festive period is never as simple as the unbridled joy and consumerist cheer that…

  • White winter mist

    The woods are shrouded in a white winter mist. Snow falls from the sombre sky, trees twist and creak in the icy wind. There is someone lying in the woods. A girl. Her skin is as white as the snow around her, and yet it is a sickly pallor. Her mouth, once as red as blood, is now…

  • 5 reasons writers love winter

    5 reasons writers love winter

    Winter has been at the heart of countless literary classics, and for generations, it has served writers well as a metaphor for stillness, sterility, and despair – as well as for introversion and contemplation. Understandably, the relationship between writers and winter has long intrigued. This relationship is explored intriguingly in Stephen King’s The Shining, writer…

  • Adam Gopnik’s love letter to winter

    As we slink by the winter’s solstice and our dark days grow colder (or milder and wetter, as the case may be in the UK), there’s certainly a heavy amount of cultural baggage that burdens our seasonal metaphors. Winter, after all, is so often presented as a season symbolic of spiritual barrenness – sometimes a…