1987 Fagburn Awards: Books Of The Year

1. Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated The Modern World - Gregory Woods

Magnificent, magisterial, massive, a masterpiece.

2. The Descent Of Man - Grayson Perry

3. Keeping On Keeping On - Alan Bennett.

4. Party Animals: My Family And Other Communists - David Aaronovitch

5. Suspicious Minds: Why People Believe Conspiracy Theories - Rob Brotherton *

* This was actually published right at the end of 2015. If you feel chronologically insulted feel free to imagine Who Rules The World? by Noam Chomsky or Shrinking Violets: A Field Guide To Shyness by Joe Moran here.

Grayson Perry: A Big Cock

"There's no disputing what it is,” Perry said. "It's a big cock."

“I was thinking of an object that could hold its own amongst all the marble (of the City lobbies) but drew attention to the unquestioned maleness of its world,” Perry added.

"Men dominate the financial centre especially at the top so I wanted to make something that said it's there all the time, it's the centre of gravity that's pulling us all in."

Independent.