2022 has been a mixed year. Good for fans of no covid restrictions, Conservative party self-immolation, and Daniel Craig's Southern accent. Bad for global stability, anyone with any form of living costs, and a certain billionaire. However, 2022 was also the year I got really back into reading. I'm going to pick out some of my favourites from the year. The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst Starting with a Booker prize winner is hardly the paragon of critical literary insight, I'll admit. But on reading, it's easy to see why it was so highly acclaimed. Telling the story of the eighties through Nick, a middle class post-graduate who finds himself growing ever closer to the Fedden family, headed by an ambitious and aristocratic Tory MP. He juggles his increasing entanglement in high society, with the reality of his sex life and the ominous shadow of the AIDS epidemic. Hollinghurst questions whether homosexuality can ever be apolitical, especially in the face of the increas...