Winter in the AirDecades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a caf before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, the author of 'Lolly Willowes' reveals her mastery of the short story.

confidence

only to experience Britain's racist post-war society

Two years after its disastrous opening in 1896

The QI Elves are the clever clogs researchers behind the smash hit panel show QI

Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is working on the case of a missing dog - and on her own need to be more assertive - when she sees the footage on TV

'Jeremy Hardy Speaks Volumes' contains the very very best of his material - from his stand-up to his radio monologues and political satire to the joyfully silly gems from his years of appearing on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - curated and assembled to encompass everything about Jeremy that fans adored

Tyne and Wear

Some sustain themselves on the nostalgia circuit

Winner of Dymocks Book of the Year

Meanwhile Grace's great-grand-daughter Beca is oblivious to all these worries

breaking barriers and challenging stereotypes throughout

they freeze in patterns like icy flowers