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My unforgettable winter


31 December 2017

  • Jess Phillips

    Jess Phillips: ‘I will never again make the mistake of becoming pregnant in late January’

    It’s 4.30am, midwinter 2008, and the future MP is hunkering down for another early shift

29 December 2017

  • Sebastian Barry & Seamas Mac Annaidh in Russia in 1992

    Sebastian Barry’s Russian assignment: ‘In the supermarkets, nothing – only a solitary dried-out loaf’

    With the collapse of the USSR and the country in chaos, the writer was sent to lecture in Moscow. It was a stark awakening to a real catastrophe

28 December 2017

  • Nadifa Mohamed in the garden of her family’s maisonette in Roehampton: ‘It wasn’t Narnia, but it became the scene of most of my childhood memories.’

    Nadifa Mohamed: ‘As I chose the snowman’s eyes, I realised I had an audience …’

    It was 1987, the novelist’s family had just moved from Somalia to the UK, and she was enthralled by the possibilities of their new home’s little garden ...

27 December 2017

  • Adam Gopnik at the age of 10 in 1966: ‘A world sunk in gloom and tight-skinned misery suddenly lit up bright as day, and what had been a desert became a Christmas card’.

    Adam Gopnik: child star of avant-garde theatre on how a snowstorm saved Christmas

    The New Yorker writer and essayist remembers a miraculous escape from a Christmas Day spent lying on Styrofoam rocks in the name of avant-garde theatre

26 December 2017

  • Sarah Hall - 2010

    Sarah Hall on the year the fens turned to ice: ‘I finally got to cross a frozen river’

    When the author moved to East Anglia, she experienced one of the coldest winters for 20 years – and fulfilled a childhood dream

25 December 2017

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    Hollie McNish: ‘I couldn't believe that Santa knew my name. Then he pulled out the presents …’

    How a childhood Christmas turned from frenzied excitement to utter despair

24 December 2017

  • Jackie Kay: ‘I was sent off for another test: they thought that I had sickle cell anaemia. It looked like I was going to be in for Christmas’.

    Jackie Kay: ‘The longest winters are the ones when you are away from home’

  • Laura Barton: ‘To return home to the warm-hearthed gatherings, the reunions in the pub, the catch-ups with old friends, is to be reminded of all the ways in which I do not quite match’.

    Laura Barton: ‘The last time I went home for Christmas was five years ago. I was a terrible guest’

22 December 2017

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    Piers Torday: 'We mounted our loyal tauntauns and waded out across the drifts’

    The Empire Strikes Back had just been released and the children’s author, aged 10, was invited to a friend’s house to watch it. But on the day of the screening, disaster struck – he had woken up on the ice planet Hoth …
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