BOOKS OF 2018
Themes of the year
1.First World War
Where they Kill Captains – Douglas Butler
The General – CS Forrester
The Dust that Falls from Dreams – Louis de Bernieres
So Much Life Left Over – Louis de Bernieres
2.Medical
This is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay
3.Spy Biography
The Spy and the Traitor – Ben Macintyre
4.Nature
Wilding – Isabella Tree
Unexpected Genius of Pigs – Matt Whyman
5.Politics
Yes She Can – Ruth Davidson
Ladybird Book of Brexit
Brexit Cartoons
6.Exotic Travel
In Search of North Africa – Barnaby Rogerson
Travels in a Dervish Cloak – Isambard Wilkinson
7.Surprises
Educated – Tara Westover
Terms and Conditions – Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Fire and the Fury – Michael Wolff
Fear Trump in the White House – Bob Woodward
A Higher Loyalty – James Comey
Red Notice – Bill Browder
8.New Novels by Big Beasts
Love is Blind – William Boyd
Middle England – Jonathan Coe
Warlight – Michael Ondaatje
9.Films
The Children Act – Ian McEwan
The Wife – Meg Wolitzer
Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie society -Annie Barrows & Mary Ann Shaffer
10.Local Authors
Blood on the Page – Thomas Harding
Not out of the Woods – Roger Morgan -Grenville
Capitalism in America – Allan Greenspan & Adrian Woolridge
Bluestreak – Mike Klidjian
Henry Harwood – Peter Hore
World War Two Explained – Michael O’Kelly
11.In Praise of Difficult Books
Milkman – Anna Burns
Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders
Missing Fay – Adam Thorpe
12.Other Good Booker Shortlist
Washington Black – Esi Edugyan
The Mars Room – Rachel Kushner
13.Other Prize Winners
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
Inside the Wave – Helen Dunmore
Reservoir 13 – Jon McGregor
Explorer – Katherine Rundell
In the Days of Rain – Rebecca Stott
Home fire – Kamila Shamsie
14.Two Young Writers
What I Know About Love – Dolly Alderton
Conversations With Friends – Sally Rooney
15.Some Cracking Thrillers
A Legacy of Spies – John Le Carre
Munich – Robert Harris
Ultimatum – Frank Gardner
Memo From Turner – Tim Willocks
16.In a category of its Own
La Belle Sauvage – Philip Pullman
17.Beautiful Gift Books
Hampshire in Photographs
The Garden At West Dean – Sarah Wain & Jim Buckaland
18.The Top Ten Bestelling novels of 2018
The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
The Sparsholt Affair – Alan Holinghurst
The Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris
This Must be the Place – Maggie O’Farrell
The Muse – Jessie Burton
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
The Lie of the Land – Amanda Craig
A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman