A further selection of the best and worst books of 2008 , chosen by some of our regular reviewers
Ferdinand Mount
I’m not sure quite what it is that captivated me about Tim Winton’s novel, Breath (Hamish Hamilton, £14.99). It’s a sort of Huck Finn goes surfing in Australia. A scrawny kid bums along the coast in search of the ultimate wave and falls under the spell of Sando, the mysterious wizard of the surfboard.
Disagree with half of it, enjoy reading all of it
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