Winter's Tales

'For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep/Seeming and savour all the winter long' (The Winter's Tale, IV.ii). But if you prefer your comforts in the cold weather more verbal than herbal, we’ve got some great fiction to curl up with: breathe the rarified air of Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, explore the frozen wastelands of Anna Kavan's Ice or shelter from the Turkish blizzards in Orhan Pamuk's Snow.