How Beasts of the southern wild, for example, has not been listed whilst the trite The grey has been is especially baffling and I can only assume, frankly Neil, that you have absolutely no idea what you are doing. I suspect you might be a dusty old man who hasn’t really taken an interest in progressive Art of any kind in a very long time.

Here’s a tip Neil: Art, music and culture didn’t stop evolving when you’re youth ran out. Let me guess; you’ve never listened to Fantomas album and can’t name a single American Magic Realist Artist, and you don’t know who Tomas transtromer is.

It is cultural commentators like you who keep me in the cultural cringe.

You are outdated and ridiculous.

Toorah.

For me personally best game this year was Dark Souls: Prepare to die edition, though I feel that cheats by basically just being a PC port delayed by a good few years.

These awards are the opposite of democratic! Why does one person of whatever persuasion get to choose?
In future please abide by Crikey subscribers and/ or readers votes?

Cannot in honesty respond to other categories, but as one who read and admired Rushdie’s ‘Joseph Anton’, and also read Zadie Smith’s sadly light weight ‘NW’, neither can hold a candle to Mantel’s jaw dropping brilliance in ‘Bring Up The Bodies’

And for brilliance plus belly bellow laugh hilarity, believe Jacobsen’s ‘Zoo Time’ is worth a Crikey on its own.

BTW would recommend that the unrepresentative Crikey awardster reads Drewe’s ’ Montebellow’ if said person is inclined to elevate memoirs above literature.

Merry Christmas!

Don’t get me started on the lack of diversity in the reviewer selection.

You’re a pedant. I only looked at these comments to see if I could be the first to comment that ‘Josep Anton” isn’t a novel.

Drats…