By most reckonings, winter begins on 21 December – the winter solstice – however in The Well-read Naturalist library, winter arrived on 26 October this year. I speak, of course, not about the season itself, rather about the fourth and completing volume of the quartet of seasonal anthologies edited by Melissa Harrison and published by Elliott & Thompson.
If you’ve read my recently published review of the previous volume, Autumn; An Anthology for the Changing Seasons, then I suspect you have some idea of just how high the bar is set for this new one. Yet experience tells me that with three volumes already having proven themselves to have been superb to a one, I have every reason to believe that this final volume won’t be anything less.
