The past 12 months have seen some fabulous releases. Prima ’s books editor Nina Pottell looks back at her favourites and the ones you may have missed…

by Lily King (£18.99, HB, Canongate Books) The choices we make when we’re young can reverberate throughout our lives. As a young woman at university, our narrator is swept off into the intoxicating wo

by Julia McKay (£9.99, PB, Penguin) Ten years after her heart was broken, journalist Emory Oakes has sworn off love. But when her father’s financial scandal lands him in prison, she knows it is time t

Here are our recommendations – and yours – of what to enjoy reading this fortnight

Best books… Elizabeth Gilbert The author of the ...

‘ Knives Out meets Thursday Murder Club ’