Awards

• Long-listed for Highland Book Prize 2017
• Short-listed for Boardman Tasker Award 2017
• Short-listed for Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature 2017
• Short-listed for Highland Book Prize 2018

Overview

As the summer draws to a close, a few snowbeds - some as big as icebergs - survive in the Scottish Highlands. Christopher Nicholson's Among the Summer Snows is both a celebration of these great, icy relics and an intensely personal meditation on their significance. A book to delight all those interested in mountains and snow, full of vivid description and anecdote, it explores the meanings of nature, beauty and mortality in the twenty-first century.

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Reviews

'A beautiful book about love and loss, fragility and chance, the wide world and the near world . . . full of intense light and colour, extraordinary glimpses, moving insights and subtle humour.' Richard Kerridge, author of Cold Blood | 'This ravishingly lovely book is about thought-snow, summer snow, flight, falling, stillness, memory, loss, mountains, Time, death, survival and everything in between. It is an intense scrutiny of minute worlds, a roaming gaze into the vastness of space, intimate, introspective and questioning.' Keggie Carew, author of Dadland

'This is the kind of beautiful writing that transcends form - in this case nature writing - to arrive somewhere improbable and compelling.' Paul Evans, Guardian. 'A beautiful book about love and loss, fragility and chance, the wide world and the near worl...full of intense light and colour, extraoridinary glimpses, moving insights and subtle humour.' Richard kerridge, author of Cold Blood 'A ravishingly lovely book, ' Keggie Carew author of Dadland.

Author Information

Christopher Nicholson was born in London in 1956, and has lived near Shaftesbury in Dorset for the past thirty years. His first novel, The Fattest Man in America, was published in 2005. The Elephant Keeper, which followed in 2009, was shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel award and for the Encore Award. His third novel, Winter, about the life of the elderly Thomas Hardy, was published in 2014. Among the Summer Snows was shortlisted for the 2017 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Writing and longlisted for the 2018 Highland Book Prize.

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