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One of our winter stories, David Butler's 'Too Cold for Snow' is a tale about family, its' support and a wrenching sense of guilt. I’ve slept badly again. The farmhouse is unearthly cold. Alive, too, in the still of night, with ticks, groans, intestinal gurgles. The fridge, juddering to a halt.

A winter story, 'The Osprey at Dusk' by Yvonne Dykes tells an intimate story of a married couple who has fallen out of love. I drive. You said you were tired, hadn’t slept all night. The journey to the Lakes takes longer than I remembered. There are more cars on the road, the lorries are bigger