Best of 2022

World Fiction

5 – Hunter With Harpoon by Markoosie Patsuaq – translated from the Inuit by Valerie Henituik 4 – The Sky Above The Roof by Natalie Appanah – translated from the French (Mauritius) by Geoffrey Strachan

3 – Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur – translated from the Spanish by Claire Wadie

2 – Impossible by Erri du Luca – translated from the French by NS Thompson

1 – Strega by Johanne Lykke Holm – translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel

Published This Year

5 – Nazaré by JJ Amaworo Wilson

4 – The Colony by Audrey Magee

3 – Mercia’s Take by Daniel Wiles

2 – Spies in Canaan by David Park

1 – Kick The Latch by Kathryn Scanlan

Older Books

5 – I am Jonathan Scrivener by Claude Houghton

4 – I Who Have Never Know Men by Jacqueline Harpman

3 – Naked In The Garden Hills by Harry Crews

2 – The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter 1 – O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker

Non-Fiction (no order)

– Empire of Ice and Stone by Buddy Levy

-The Golden Mole by Katherine Rundell

– Wild Fell by Lee Schofield

– Treeline by Ben Rawlence

– Shadowlands by Matthew Green

Short Stories (no order)

– The Man In The Boat by Per Olav Enquist – translated from the Swedish by Ted Hodgkinson and from the collection The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat

– Cordoba by Stuart Dybek – from the collection Ecstatic Cahoots

– Moon Lake by Eudora Welty

– The Swords by Robert Aickman – from the collection Cold Hand In Mine

– The Willows by Algernon Blackwood

– Lily Wilt by Jess Kidd – from The Haunting Season

Films (from 2022)

7 – Memoria

6 – You Won’t Be Alone

5 – Amulet

4 – The Quiet Girl

3 – Hit The Road

2 – Decision To Leave

1 – The Banshees of Innershin

TV

8 – Severance

7 – Reservation Dogs

6 – Slow Horses

5 – Top Boy

4- Better Call Saul (series 6)

3 – The Bureau (series 5)

2- We Own This City

1 – The Bear