From the Backlist: Seasonal Reading Recommendations

Hello, Sup community,

This time from the backlist, we are turning back the clock to one of Helen Lowe's cosy book recommendations for reading 'in season.'

Join us as we explore her suggestions, get comfy and read!

Illustrator Yaoyao Ma Van As.

Solstice Favorites

by Helen Lowe

Tis the deep midwinter here on the far side of the world – which is absolutely the best time to pull up a chair by the fire and indulge in some solstice reading. 

 

And of course I want the kind of books that fit the season, all about secrets, mystery, adventure  – and cookies, which absolutely brings me to the first read on the fireside table: Robin McKinley's Sunshine.

 

 

Sunshine, given the heroine, Sunny, is a baker, delivers cookies a-plenty, as well as vampires, demons, and mystery in an adventure where Sunny herself may be the biggest secret... A great read for when the evenings start closing in.

Another pick, on the basis of name alone, has to be Patricia McKillip's Solstice Wood, which explores the boundary between the real world and the faerie realm.

 

There's a quilting circle that is more than what it seems, living on the verge of an "other" world, which delivers up sufficient changelings, undines, and witches to populate any respectable set of fireside shadows, plus forbidden love and misunderstood duty to keep things interesting ...

Read the complete article HERE and let us know what book you have by the bedside right now! 

Enjoy! 

 

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About Helen Lowe

Helen Lowe is an award-winning novelist, poet, and lover of story. With four books published to date, she is currently completing the final instalment in The Wall Of Night series.
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Helen posts regularly on her “…on Anything, Really” blog, monthly on the Supernatural Underground, and tweets @helenl0we.

 

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