Top UK-based writers have revealed a selection of their favourite books from this year. John Boyne says he loved Joseph Knox s True Crime Story while Amanda Craig chose CJ Carey s Widowland.
Here is a narrator whose tell-it-like-it-is voice will win you over from the very first sentence. Her name is Lucy Barton, and she s come a long way from her impoverished rural roots.
Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.