Thomas Eidson St Agnes Stand

Robert Harris Fatherland

Peter Hoeg Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow

Thomas Keneally Schindler’s Ark

Val McDermid Dead Beat

Arturo Perez-Reverte The Flanders Panel

Ian Rankin Strip Jack

Amy Tan The Kitchen God’s Wife

William Trevor Felicia’s Journey

Scott Turow Presumed Innocent

Seamus Deane Reading in the Dark

Helen Dunmore A Spell of Winter

L P Hartley The Go-Between

Susan Howatch Glittering Images

Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day

G T di Lampedusa The Leopard

Anne Michaels Fugitive Pieces

Michele Roberts Daughters of the House

Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea

Jill Paton Walsh Knowledge of Angels

Martin Amis The Information

Jane Austen Emma

Julian Barnes England, England

Alan Bennett Talking Heads I

J M Coetzee Disgrace

Patricia Cornwell From Potter’s Field

Michael Dobbs House of Cards

David Lodge Therapy

Fay Weldon The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

Jeanette Winterson Oranges are not the only Fruit

Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island

Angela Carter Wise Children

Alice Thomas Ellis The 27^th Kingdom

Helen Fielding Bridget Jones’ Diary

Pam Houston Cowboys are my Weakness

Alan Isler The Prince of West End Avenue

David Nobbs Second from Last in the Sack Race

Terry Pratchett The Light Fantastic

Tom Sharpe Porterhouse Blue

Barbara Trapido Juggling

Bruce Chatwin On the Black Hill

Anne Fine Telling Liddy

Angela Lambert A Rather English Marriage

Hilary Mantel An Experiment in Love

Frank McCourt Angela’s Ashes

Blake Morrison When did you Last see your Father?

Caryl Phillips Crossing the River

Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things

Graham Swift Last Orders

Rose Tremain Sacred Country

Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Romesh Gunesekera Reef

Nick Hornby About a Boy

Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie

Alison Lurie Foreign Affairs

Michelle Magorian Goodnight Mr Tom

Elizabeth McCracken The Giant’s House

Carol Shields The Stone Diaries

Anne Tyler A Patchwork Planet

Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County

Margaret Atwood Cat’s Eye

Pat Barker Regeneration

Mark Behr The Smell of Apples

Joan Brady Theory of War

Paul Britton The Jigsaw Man

Brian Keenan An Evil Cradling

Doris Lessing The Good Terrorist

Ian McEwan The Innocent

George Orwell 1984

Stephen King Pet Semetary

Douglas Adams The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Alessandro Baricco Silk

Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda

Arthur C Clarke 2001

Jim Crace Quarantine

Anne McAffrey Dragonflight

Jostein Gaarder Sophie’s World

Iris Murdoch The Bell

Phillip Pullman Northern Lights

Dava Sobel Longitude

Dominique Bauby The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

Charles Frazier Cold Mountain

George Eliot Silas Marner

Nicholas Evans The Horse Whisperer

Oscar Hijuelos Mr I’s Christmas

Eric Lomax The Railway Man

Deric Longden Lost for Words

Bernard MacLaverty Grace Notes

Michael Ondaatje The English Patient

Terry Waite Taken on Trust

Kate Atkinson Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride

Beryl Bainbridge Master Georgie

John Banville The Book of Evidence

Julian Barnes A History of the World in 10 and a half Chapters

Milan Kundera The Farewell Party

Candia McWilliam Debatable Land

Magnus Mills The Restraint of Beasts

Timothy Mo Sour Sweet

Bernhard Schlink The Reader