The 50 best winter reads

The Independent lined up a panel to select the fifty best winter reads.

One title to make the grade:

The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor

'2010 is proving to be a vintage year for historical thrillers and this is a heady draught of skulduggery and the supernatural,' says Rebecca [Armstrong, deputy features editor of The Independent]. 'The author captures the superstitions and mores of 18th-century England with a wryly witty eye.'

Read about the other books on the list.

View the video trailer for The Anatomy of Ghosts, and learn more about the book and author at Andrew Taylor's website.

Writers Read: Andrew Taylor.

--Marshal Zeringue