Midwinter
A Journey Through a Season
$66.03
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
20 January 2026
Summary
On frosty nights, as he sits by a flickering fire, Michael Harding withdraws into the stillness of winter and begins to reckon with age and death.
As stories emerge from the shadows, we meet a young boy whose arrival brings hope, but whose journey will know winter’s path. November is a rainstorm, December a bleak twilight, but as January dawns and the ice thaws, the fragile light of love penetrates the dark, bringing beauty to the earth and making new beginnings possible.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399749534 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399749536 |
| Author: | Michael Harding |
| Publisher: | Hachette Books Ireland |
| Imprint: | Hachette Books Ireland |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 20 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 760g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 154mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
Michael Harding has bestowed on us a beguiling meditation on life and death in these quiet and profound reflections … remarkable … a comforting book, beautifully written and with gorgeous illustrations * Irish Times *
Unbearably honest. Harding writes with lyrical beauty * Irish Independent *
About The Author
Michael Harding
Michael Harding is an author and playwright. A recipient of the Stewart Parker Award for theatre, a Hennessy Award for Short Stories and a Bank of Ireland/RTE award for Excellence in the Arts in 1990, he has written numerous plays for the Abbey Theatre and was writer in association with the National Theatre in 1993.
His novels include Bird in the Snow, The Trouble with Sarah Gullion and Priest. He is also the author of several bestselling memoirs including Staring at Lakes (winner of the Bord Gais Energy Book of the Year award), Hanging with the Elephant, Talking to Strangers, On Tuesdays I’m a Buddhist, Chest Pain, What is Beautiful in the Sky and Midwinter.
He is a member of Aosdana, a columnist for over fifteen years with The Irish Times and his podcasts are available on the Patreon platform.
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