Book buys: Best of year lists, and our critics pick their favourites

From fiction to music biographies, and the category winners in the book awards, here are dozens of options for pressie-buying or personal reads 
Book buys: Best of year lists, and our critics pick their favourites

Shane MacGowan, Lisa McInerney and Stanley Tucci feature among our critics' books picks of 2021. 

Tue, 14 Dec, 2021 - 20:00

FIVE OF THE BEST: LITERARY FICTION 

Snowflake by Louise Nealon 

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