num_pages: 208
description: Winter is a withdrawal: quiet and dark and cold. But in the dim light frost shimmers stars twinkle and hearths blaze as we come together to keep out the chill. In spite of the season life persists: visiting birds fill our skies familiar creatures find clever ways to survive and the world reveals winter riches to those willing to venture outdoors.In prose and poetry spanning seven hundred years Winter delights in the brisk pleasures and enduring beauty of the year's turning. Featuring new writing from Patrick Barkham Satish Kumar and Anita Sethi extracts from the work of Robert Macfarlane James Joyce and Kathleen Jamie and a range of exciting new voices from across the UK this invigorating collection evokes the joys and the consolations of this magical time of year. A carefully selected compilation of undeniably gripping extracts and specially commissioned pieces  the final book in a fantastic series designed to celebrate the seasonsLandLove magazineBe inspired on a winter walk by writers who adore the frosty season  Country Walking magazineTo open its covers is to open onto a landscape which you have not yet crossed and to feel yourself beckoned in. It might be an intellectual landscape  littered with strange formations of thought-rocks you have never encountered. It might be an emotional landscape  bathed in the colour of an unfamiliar sky. It might even be a spiritual one animated by the sound of an unheard yet strangely familiar melody.  This book will take you from mountain heights to urban jungle and from the back of a cow shed to the slippery deck of an 18th Century sailing ship.  If you want a book to help reduce your heating bills this Winter this could be it. The cosy effect of curling up with it will work wonders. -- Richard Littledale bloggerPacked with good writing  a good mixture of familiar and unfamiliar  Mark AveryJust adorable its the most beautiful writing. Makes you feel in keeping with the seasons  Karen Gimson BBC Radio LeicesterAlive and vibrant both in the imagery it evokes and in the feelings it arouses. Without doubt Winter that most enigmatic of seasons comes gloriously alive in this lovely anthology. The editor Melissa Harrison has done a commendable job of keeping this quartet of anthologies completely relevant with each seasonal interpretation allowing a heartening and thoughtful meditation into the true meaning of Spring Summer Autumn and Winter  jaffareadstoo.blogspot.co.uk
language: English
title: Winter: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons
publisher: Elliott & Thompson