TOP 10 INDEPENDENTS

1 DOCTORS IN DENIAL: THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN IN THE ‘UNFORTUNATE EXPERIMENT’, by Ronald W. Jones (Otago University Press)

2 THE WISH CHILD, by Catherine Chidgey (Victoria University Press) 3 THE NOWHERE MAN, by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz (Penguin Random House) 4 HILLBILLY ELEGY: A MEMOIR OF A FAMILY AND CULTURE IN CRISIS, by J. D. Vance (HarperCollins)

5 THE SELLOUT, by Paul Beatty (Oneworld)

6 THE SEVERED LAND, by Maurice Gee (Penguin Random House)

7 DAYS WITHOUT END, by Sebastian Barry (Faber) 8 ISTANBUL: A TALE OF THREE CITIES, by Bettany Hughes (Hachette)

9 NORSE MYTHOLOGY, by Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)

10 GONEVILLE: A MEMOIR, by Nick Bollinger (Awa Press)