{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/af0e16de-9e4b-419b-b090-e1fe8c56f241/274ac3cc-c599-4df0-8954-1036d9b6ddf2?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The best books of 2018","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61ba0ef81a8cbec7663cf149/61ba0f46db9996001aebde86.png?height=200","description":"<p>A handful of TLS editors gather for the yearly process of picking through contributors' Books of the Year selections, and nominate their own books to remember; Serhii Plokhy, the winner of this year's Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for&nbsp;'Chernobyl: The history of a nuclear catastrophe', speaks to the TLS's History editor David Horspool</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Selected books</strong></p><p>The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey</p><p>Charles de Gaulle: A certain idea of France by Julian Jackson</p><p>Normal People by Sally Rooney</p><p>Murmur by Will Eaves</p><p>Circe by Madeline Miller</p><p>Talking To Women by Nell Dunn</p><p>Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss</p><p>The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien, edited by Maebh Long</p><p>Grant by Ron Chernow&nbsp;</p>","author_name":"The TLS"}