Best novel: ‘Bad Actors’ by Mick Herron. Many have discovered Herron’s ‘slow horses’ through the TV series. It’s great. The books are better. As they always will be.
7/7

Best biography: ‘King’ by Jonathan Eig. This won a Pulitzer for good reasons. I couldn’t put it down.
5/6

Best autobiography: ‘Everything Sad is Untrue’ by Daniel Nayeri. I laughed and cried my way through a book that defies categorisation. Part fantasy, young adult lit, autobiography - and always moving, this is a story of unusual - supernatural - courage. 4/6

Best memoir: ‘The Queen is Dead’ by Stan Grant. Such an eloquent, challenging and brutally honest series of reflections on modern Australia’s deeply unjust relationship with its first peoples, authored by perhaps Australia’s most important living prophet. 3/6

Best book read this year: ‘Morality’ by Jonathan Sacks. A bracing, yet hopeful survey of the crushing weight of modern individualism, how it evolved and how we can counter its destructive impacts, authored by the late brilliant theologian/philosopher.
2/6