Books to look out for in the next six months
From 'oikophilia' to Snowball Earth, by way of poetry and a kaleidoscope of fictionJANUARYFictionMichael Cunningham's The Hours revisited Virginia Woolf to stunning effect; By Nightfall (Fourth Estate) is his latest attempt to put art and beauty at the centre of consciousness, combining literary reference with sensuous observation. His narrator is a Manhattan art dealer distracted from middle age and marriage by the …