It’s World Book Day and it is also Snowmageddon. The Big Snow by David Park (2002)Set in 1963 against a backdrop of one of Ireland’s worst winters. The Snowman by Jo Nesbo (2007)Now a major film starring Michael Fassbender, this is the first Jo Nesbo book I read (though the seventh in the series) and is still probably his best in my book, as the law of diminishing returns reduces the shock value of his plotting. It was a magical day... and it was on that day I made the Snowman.”One winter’s day, a boy builds a snowman who comes to life at the stroke of midnight. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”

Source: The Irish Times March 01, 2018 12:33 UTC