03539cam a2200637 4500 2679573332 TxAuBib 20260211120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802167828 0802167829 B0FGFC58DR Amazon 203f860a-94ec-4036-bf28-9c15c2e94f8e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 12073830 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib McDermid, Val. Winter [Libby eBook] : The Story of a Season. Grove Atlantic, 2025. Dylan Thomas A Child's Christmas in Wales. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Dorthe Nors A Line in the World. Nina Mclaughlin Winter Solstice. Sarah Clegg The Dead of Winter. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Scottish traditions. writers on writing. scottish customs. holiday season. Bonfire Night. cozy reading. festivities. Burns night. Up Helly Aa. Edinburgh . Traditions. childhood. Christmas. Scotland. yuletide. Solstice. memories. holidays. festive. winter . Writing. Craft. HTML:<p><b>"The perfect little book to get you through winter's doldrums . . . a warm look at a dark time."—<i>Washington Post</i></b></p> <p><b>In this radiant work of creative nonfiction, internationally beloved novelist Val McDermid delivers a dazzling ode to a lost world, ruminating on a single winter in her life as she journeys into the heart of the season's ever-evolving community-based traditions</b></p> <p>Val McDermid has always had a soft spot for winter: the bitter clarity of a crisp cold day, the crunch of frost on fallen leaves, and the chance to be enveloped in big jumpers and thick socks.</p> <p>In <i>Winter</i>, McDermid takes us on an adventure through the season, from the frosty streets of Edinburgh to the windblown Scottish coast, from Bonfire Night and Christmas to Burns Night and Up Helly Aa. Recalling in parallel memories from her own childhood—of skating over frozen lakes and carving a "neep" (rutabaga) for Halloween to being taken to see her first real Christmas tree in the town square—McDermid offers a wise and enchanting meditation on winter and its ever-changing, sometimes ephemeral, traditions.</p> <p>A hygge-filled journey through winter nights, McDermid reminds us that it is a time of rest, retreat and creativity, for scribbling in notebooks and settling in beside the fire. A treat for the hunkering-down, post-holiday reading season, <i>Winter</i> is a charming and cozy celebration of the year's idle months from one of Scotland's best-loved writers.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. Nature. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-02-11 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=203f860a-94ec-4036-bf28-9c15c2e94f8e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=203f860a-94ec-4036-bf28-9c15c2e94f8e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) BELPL