A little guide to the winter world
The Hollowpine Index
Stories, recipes, rituals, rooms, music and small escapes from a winter village inspired by Vienna.
Hollowpine is not a place you have to rush through. This is the index for finding your way around: begin with a story, follow a recipe into the kitchen, listen from the reading room, or choose a small winter ritual for the evening in front of you.
Everything here belongs to the same world. Some things are fictional - Marta’s Pension Linden, Otto’s favourite chair and the table for six. Some things are made for your own home. Real-world travel ideas are labelled clearly when the road leaves the village.
Start with the stories
Meet The Winter Table in reading order, beginning with the glass room behind Marta’s kitchen.
Begin the first storyFind something to make
Browse the complete winter recipes - the soup, the goulash, the strudel and the cake that keep appearing in the stories.
Enter the winter kitchenThis week in Hollowpine
A small route through the village
Each week, one story opens the door. Follow it towards something to listen to, something to make and one small detail to notice at home.
The story
The Room Behind the Glass
Open →Listen while you read
The First Snow at Six
Make this next
Potato and Leek Soup with Mustard
Open →Notice at home
The After-Supper Half Hour
Open →
The route changes with the season. The stories remain here whenever you are ready for them.
Find your way around
The stories
Eight connected stories from The Winter Table, beginning with a glass room behind Marta’s kitchen and ending with water in the gutters and the first signs of thaw.
Read The Winter Table →The winter kitchen
Complete recipes from the stories, with quantities, timings and the details needed to make them at your own table.
Enter the winter kitchen →Quiet winter rituals
Small ways to give an ordinary evening a little shape: after supper, a table for one, a handwritten letter and the pleasure of leaving some things unfinished.
Find a winter ritual →Home, style & scent
The rooms, textures, coats, boots and scents that help Hollowpine feel lived in. Inspiration first; products only where they genuinely belong.
Make room for winter →Music & culture
Let the village play in the background. Find the three Hollowpine playlists, The Hollowpine Shelf and the books and films that belong to the season.
Visit Music & Culture →Travel & tiny escapes
For when you want to leave the village for an afternoon: Vienna after Christmas, Baden bei Wien and other real-world winter ideas. These destinations are separate from fictional Hollowpine.
Take a tiny escape →Life & money
Make room for winter in the diary and the budget without turning the season into another self-improvement project.
Read Life & Money →Take a little of the village with you
The future home for The Hollowpine Evening Book and other carefully made pieces that extend the world beyond the screen.
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