Books Editor Edel Coffey on the best books to read this winter
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As the nights draw in, my reading habits tend to get a little darker too. A new novel from superb mystery writer Jane Casey is just the thing for the encroaching winter chill. While fans of Casey’s brilliant Detective Maeve Kerrigan series are waiting with bated breath for the next instalment , Casey has kindly given us a new standalone novel that is still very much connected to Maeve.
t’s the season for dark and scary stories and Tramp Press has obligingly stepped up to the plate with a new collection of lost Irish horror stories, part of its “recovered voices” series., edited and introduced by academic Jack Fennell, includes lesser-known classic Irish horror stories from writers like William Carleton, Henry de Vere Stacpoole, Mildred Darby and more.
Meanwhile, historian Sarah Clegg takes us on a journey through Europe in midwinter to explore the dark folk tales that inspire the traditions of our festive season. In, Clegg explores the lesser-known Christmas traditions like murderous plays enacted in the Cotswolds or the Nordic Lussinatt festivities, where a young woman is crowned with candles as the martyred St Lucy, who is both a chaste Christian girl and a rampaging witch – fun!, which will be published later this month.
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