Today we publish extracts from The Bedside Guardian 2008, our annual compilation of the stories that defined the year.
The book includes a whole array of journalism covering the highs and lows, but we picked out the following for our condensed version:
January: Kevin Keegan goes back to Newcastle
February: Super Tuesday
March: The Sarkozys visit the UK
April: Olympic torch relay
May: Sichuan earthquake
June: Zimbabwe election
July: Laura Robson wins Wimbledon
August: David Tennant's Hamlet / Olympic handover
September: Financial turmoil
October: Sachsgate
November: Obamamania / John Sergeant
December: Mumbai
There is also a letter for each month, with readers adding their take on subjects such as Max Mosley's bedroom habits, the Large Hadron Collider being switched on and then switched off again, and David Cameron's bike theft.
You can read the selection in full here.
Did we get the list right? In your view, what were the defining moments of 2008?
