From Prince Harry’s epic memoir to Britney Spears’s chilling autobiography, David Grann’s historical novel The Wager to Rebecca Yarros’ fantasy fiction Fourth Wing, here is Livemint’s pick of the top five best sellers of 2023.
The £50,000 award - not counting the bonanza of royalties the flashbulb-popping prize generates - went to Paul Lynch for his dystopian novel, Prophet Song, about a woman desperately trying to save her family from a vortex of violence as Ireland is engulfed by a tidal force of totalitarianism.
Set in Dublin, "Prophet Song" tells the story of a family grappling with a terrifying new world in which the democratic norms they are used to begin to disappear.