What I read in 2024
2024 was another remarkable year for reading. Somehow I got through 264 books. Here are my favourites . Fiction The Incubations , Ramsey Campbell – another fantastically inventive and labyrinthine experience from one of the finest prose stylists in the business. Unique and memorable. You Like it Darker , Stephen King – the master’s best book in years; a stirring collection of powerful tales, including one short novel surely coming soon to a cinema near you. He still has it. Yellowface , R F Kuang – a brilliantly caustic look at contemporary PC culture and the publishing business under the shade of sensitivity reading and cultural appropriation. Blackly comic. None of T his is True , Lisa Jewell – one of the darkest thrillers I’v e ever read and topped off with a twist so ingenious you’l l have to go back to the start and see if its suggestion bears out. Jewell has always been a fine storyteller...