The first properly cold weekend of the year is for staying in, and staying in is for reading. These are the books I would put on the bedside table this Saturday.
A novel about the sea
“The Lighthouse at Morrow” by Esther Vance, a novel about three generations of lighthouse keepers, which is about loneliness, and weather, and is very good on both.
A cookbook to read, not cook from
“Salt and Smoke”, the memoir and recipes of a Lowmarsh fishing family. Half of the recipes call for a smokehouse. Read it anyway.
Something long
Pick the long book you have been meaning to read for ten years. Start it on Friday night. Do not check your phone.
