Sentence examples for spell of winter from inspiring English sources

Dunmore, who was born in Yorkshire in 1952, has written 13 novels in the past two decades, including A Spell of Winter (1996), which won the Orange Prize, The Siege (2001) and its sequel The Betrayal (2010).

Previous winners have included Helen Dunmore for A Spell of Winter (1996); Andrea Levy for Small Island (2004); Lionel Shriver for We Need to Talk About Kevin (2005); Zadie Smith for On Beauty (2006); and, last year, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun.

Orange winners 1996 A Spell of Winter Helen Dunmore 1997 Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels 1998 Larry's Party Carol Shields 1999 A Crime in the Neighbourhood Suzanne Berne 2000 When I Lived in Modern Times Linda Grant 2001 The Idea of Perfection Kate Grenville 2002 Bel Canto Ann Patchett 2003 Property Valerie Martin 2004 Small Island Andrea Levy.

Dunmore, on the judging panel this year, took the inaugural prize for her novel A Spell of Winter, in 1996.

In 1996 Dunmore won the first Orange prize for her haunting incest novel A Spell of Winter.

It was given to A Spell of Winter, Dunmore's gothic tale of forbidden, familial passion.

Because you realise that you have fallen under the spell of 2012.

2.35pm BST Meanwhile at Trent Bridge … … Jimmy Anderson has bowled a post-lunch spell of

Tells of some experiences he has had, such as the cold spell of 1917, which killed five thousand park trees, etc.

Subjects include Nik Wallenda's tightrope walk across Niagara Falls, the first hot spell of summer and a rock slide in the Palisades.

The loss of water from the Delaware tunnel ("21st-Century Plumbing for a Leaky Old Aqueduct," March 12) sounds alarming, particularly after the dry spell of this past winter.