Top Book In Fiction 2015

Christmas 2015: The top  book in fiction

Here's  2015's finest book to fire the imagination, engage the grey matter and invigorate the spirit over the festive period.

Marlon James proved that literary risks pay off with his flamboyantly edgy A Brief History of Seven Killings Getty Images

Writing good literature is not, even for the grandest of wordsmiths, a foregone conclusion. Some starry names gave us workaday novels while Morrissey showed us how difficult it is to write a good novel with his spectacularly bad one, List of the Lost. Harper Lee, meanwhile, released a first draft of the much-heralded Go Set a Watchman, which showed its incomplete journey from work-in-progress to polished end product.