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2023's best books: Victorian sex, apocalypse and Prince Harry

Our literary editors give us the lowdown on what they’ve been reading this last year

Our literary editors give us the lowdown on what they’ve been reading this last year - from steamy sex to the end of the world - and what should be on your Christmas gift list.

Guests:
Robbie Millen, Literary Editor, The Times and The Sunday Times.
Johanna Thomas-Corr, Chief Literary Critic, The Times and The Sunday Times.
Host: Luke Jones

For the full list of Times & Sunday Times best books of the year,
Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
The Wren, The Wren - Anne Enright
Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan
The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
Old God’s Time - Sebastian Barry
Soldier Sailor - Claire Kilroy
The Future - Naomi Alderman
Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton
Fire Weather - John Vaillant
Politics on the Edge - Rory Stewart
But What Can I Do? - Alastair Campbell
How Westminster Works… And Why It Doesn’t - Ian Dunt
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
The New Life - Tom Crewe
Spare - Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
The Woman In Me - Britney Spears
My Name Is Barbra - Barbra Streisand
Paris: The Memoir - Paris Hilton
Erotic Vagrancy - Roger Lewis
The Earth Transformed - Peter Frankopan
Pathogenesis - Jonathan Kennedy
Eve - Cat Bohannon
The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Long Island - Colm Tóibín
Knife - Salman Rushdie

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