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• The Dancing Bear by Frances Faviell
• A Book of Secrets by Kate Morrison
• A Chelsea Concerto by Frances Faviell
• A Footman for the Peacock by Rachel Ferguson
• A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson
• A Humble Companion by Laurie Graham
• A Lady Cyclist’s Guide To Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson
• A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
• A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
• A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan
• A Quiet Life by Natasha Walter
• A Secret Sisterhood by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
• A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
• A Stone's Throw by Fiona Shaw
• A Stranger City by Linda Grant
• A Trick I Learned from Dead Men by Kitty Aldridge
• A Woman’s War by Frances Donaldson
• Adultery by Paulo Coelho
• After Before by Jemma Wayne
• After Birth by Elisa Albert
• After Such Kindness by Gaynor Arnold
• After the Bombing by Clare Morrall
• After the Parade by Lori Ostlund
• Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
• All Together Now by Gill Hornby
• All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
• Alone in the Classroom by Elizabeth Hay
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• An English Affair by Richard Davenport-Hines
• Ancient Light by John Banville
• Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
• April Crime Round-Up by N. J. Cooper
• Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
• Armadillos by P.K. Lynch
• As Green as Grass by Emma Smith
• Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
• Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
• Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
• August Crime Round-Up by N. J. Cooper
• August Folly by Angela Thirkell
• Away from the Dead by Karen Jennings
• Be Safe I Love You by Cara Hoffman
• Beautiful Lies by Clare Clarke
• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
• Black Box by Jennifer Egan
• Black Vodka by Deborah Levy
• Blasted Things by Lesley Glaister
• Boys Don’t Cry by Fiona Scarlett
• Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andreï Makine
• Brilliance by Anthony McCarten
• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
• Burqas, Baseball and Apple Pie by Ranya Tabari Idliby
• Butterflies in November by Audur Ava Olafsdottir
• California by Edan Lepucki
• Carnival by Rawi Hage
• Cartes Postale from Greece by Victoria Hislop
• Caught in the Revolution by Helen Rappaport
• Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall
• City of Women by David Gillham
• Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors
• Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
• Closed for Winter by JørnLier Horst
• Cold Hands by John J. Niven
• Come to the Edge by Joanna Kavenna
• Conrad and Eleanor by Jane Rogers
• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
• Couple Mechanics by Nelly Alard
• Cut Out by Michèle Roberts
• Dance by the Canal by Kerstin Hensel
• Dark Water by Sara Bailey
• Darkling by Laura Beatty
• Daughters of Castle Deverill by Santa Montefiore
• Dear Life by Alice Munro
• Dear Mona by Jonah Jones
• Death in the Sun by Adam Creed
• Death of a She Devil by Fay Weldon
• December Crime Round-Up by N. J. Cooper
• Deviation by Luce d’Eramo
• Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
• Discretion by Faïza Guène
• Dixon Grace 1.9.7 Hamburg by Alexa Camouro
• Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
• Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo by Boris Fishman
• Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
• Elsewhere, Home by Leila Aboulela
• Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
• Evening in Paradise by Lucia Berlin
• Every Day, Every Hour by Nataša Dragnić
• Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
• Exceeding My Brief by Barbara Hosking
• Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe
• Exposure by Helen Dunmore
• Fallout by Sadie Jones
• Farewell, Cowboy by Olja Savicevic
• Fear in the Sunlight by Nicola Upson
• February Crime Round-Up by N.J. Cooper
• February/March Crime Round-Up by N. J. Cooper
• Feminism and the Servant Problem by Laura Schwartz
• Fen by Daisy Johnson
• Finding Soutbek by Karen Jennings
• Fish Change Direction in Cold Weather by Pierre Szalowski
• Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
• Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta
• Genie and Paul by Natasha Soobramanien
• Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
• Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
• Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
• Gold by Chris Cleave
• Goldblatt’s Descent by Michael Honig
• Grief Works by Julia Samuel
• H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
• HHhH by Laurent Binet
• Hansen’s Children by Ognjen Spahic
• Happiness by Aminatta Forna
• Hawthorn and Child by Keith Ridgway
• Her by Harriet Lane
• Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
• Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment
• Herring Girl by Debbie Taylor
• History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
• Hold Still by Cherry Smyth
• Hotel Silence by Auour Ava Olafsdottir
• House of Glass by Susan Fletcher
• How to Measure a Cow by Margaret Forster
• Humiliation by Paulina Flores
• I Know You Are Going To be Happy by Rupert Christiansen
• I Might Regret This by Abbi Jacobson
• If You're Reading This I'm Already Dead by Andrew Nicoll
• In Diamond Square by Merce Rodoreda
• In Times Like These by Maureen Duffy
• In the Gold of Time by Claudie Gallay
• In the Kingdom of Men by Kim Barnes
• In the Steps of Exceptional Women by Jane W. Grant
• Inconvenient People by Sarah Wise
• Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor
• Infidelities by Kirsty Gunn
• Infrared by Nancy Huson
• Inspector Minahan Makes a Stand: The Missing Girls of England by Bridget O’Donnell
• Intermission by Owen Martell
• Isabel’s Skin by Peter Benson
• It Goes With the Territory by Elaine Feinstein
• January Crime Round-Up by N. J. Cooper
• John Saturnall’s Feast by Lawrence Norfolk
• John le Carré: The Biography by Adam Sisman
• Joining the Dots by Juliet Gardiner
• Joy by Jonathan Lee
• July Crime Round-Up by N.J. Cooper
• June Crime Round-Up by N.J. Cooper
• Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes
• Kingdom of Strangers by Zoe Ferraris
• Ladivine by Marie NDiaye
• Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures by Emma Straub
• Lee Miller’s War by (editor) Antony Penrose
• Light Box: Stories by K.J. Orr
• Light from Other Stars by Erika Swyler
• Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
• Little Egypt by Lesley Glaister
• Little People by Jane Sullivan
• Lost & Found by Tom Winter
• Lost Luggage by Jordi Punti
• Lost, Stolen or Shredded by Rick Gekoski
• Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford
• Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe
• Lucky Us by Amy Bloom
• Lullaby by Leïla Slimani
• Madame Mephisto by A.M. Bakalar
• Making a Noise by John Tusa
• Man of My Time by Dalia Sofer
• Manderley Forever: The Life of Daphne du Maurier by Tatiana de Rosnay
• March Crime Round-Up by N. J. Cooper
• Marie Curie and Her Daughters by Shelley Emling
• Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Journalism by John Norris
• May Crime Round-Up by N. J. Cooper
• May crime round-up by N.J. Cooper
• Meeting the English by Kate Clanchy
• Mending the Mind by Oliver Kamm
• Metaphysical Animals by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman
• Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlen
• Miss Mole by E.H. Young
• Modern Times by Cathy Sweeney
• Monsieur Ka by Vesna Goldsworthy
• Mother Island by Bethan Roberts
• Mr Lynch’s Holiday by Catherine O’Flynn
• Mr Peacock’s Possessions by Lydia Syson
• Mrs Fletcher by Tom Perrotta
• Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale
• Mrs Tim Carries On, Mrs Tim Gets a Job, Mrs Tim Flies Home by D.E. Stevenson
• Muse by Jonathan Galassi
• My Gun Was As Tall As Me by Toni Davidson
• My History by Lady Antonia Fraser
• My Mother is a River by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
• My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
• NW by Zadie Smith
• Negative Capability by Michèle Roberts
• Nightshift by Kiare Ladner
• Nine Rabbits by Virginia Zaharieva
• Ninepins by Rosy Thornton
• Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
• Not Working by Lisa Owens
• Not at Home by Doris Langley Moore
• Nothing is Heavy by Vicki Jarrett
• November Crime Round-Up by N.J. Cooper
• O My America! by Sara Wheeler
• October Crime Round-Up by N. J. Cooper
• On Smaller Dogs and Larger Life Questions by Kate Figes
• On the Wilder Shores of Love by Lesley Blanch
• One Night, Markovitch by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
• One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan
• Opposed Positions by Gwendoline Riley
• Ordinary People by Diana Evans
• Outline by Rachel Cusk
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Palawan Story by Caroline Vu
• Park Lane by Frances Osborne
• Part of the Spell by Rachel Heath
• Pascal’s Tears by Robert Fraser
• Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
• Patience by John Coates
• Penelope by Rebecca Harrington
• Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nicholson
• Petite Mort by Beatrice Hitchman
• Phaedra: a drama in verse by Marina Tsvetaeva

• Picnic in the Storm by Yukiko Motoya
• Points of Origin by Diao Dou
• Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
• Ramshackle by Elizabeth Reeder
• Real Life by Adeline Dieudonné
• Rebound by Aga Lesiewicz
• Red Love by Maxim Leo
• Right After the Weather by Carol Anshaw
• Rook by Jane Rusbridge
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
• Sailing Through Byzantium by Maureen Freely
• Sandlands by Rosy Thornton
• Scent: The Collected Works by Dinesh Allirajah
• Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead
• Second-Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
• September Crime Round-Up by N. J. Cooper
• September Crime Round-up by N. J. Cooper
• Severance by Ling Ma
• Sharks in the Time of Saviours by Kawai Strong Washburn
• She Left Me the Gun by Emma Brockes
• She Rises by Kate Worsley
• Sila’s Fortune by Fabrice Humbert
• Siracusa by Delia Ephron
• Sketcher by Roland Watson-Grant
• Skios by Michael Frayn
• Small Hours by Jennifer Kitses
• So It Is by Liam Murray Bell
• So The Path Does Not Die by Pede Hollist
• Sometimes a River Song by Avril Joy
• Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena
• Spilt Milk by Chico Buarque
• Stay Up with Me by Tom Barbash
• Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• Summer Half by Angela Thirkell
• Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch
• Surrogate by Susan Spindler
• Sweet Home by Wendy Erskine
• Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
• Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
• Take Six Girls by Laura Thompson
• Tangerine by Christine Mangan
• Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love by Sarah Butler
• Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson
• Tenth of December by George Saunders
• The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
• The Arc of the Swallow by Sissel-Jo Gazan
• The Art of Typewriting by Ruth and Marvin Sackner
• The Baghdad Railway Club by Andrew Martin
• The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
• The Baroness by Hannah Rothschild
• The Bees by Laline Paull
• The Black Count by Tom Reiss
• The Black Path by Asa Larsson
• The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
• The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah
• The Book of Rio – a City in Short Fiction edited by Toni Marques and Katie Slade
• The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
• The Children’s Crusade by Ann Packer
• The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon
• The Confidant by Hélène Grémillon
• The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
• The Daughter of Lady Macbeth by Ajay Close
• The Devil I Know by Claire Kilroy
• The Dinner by Herman Koch
• The Disappearance of Emile Zola by Michael Rosen
• The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida
• The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
• The Element –Inth in Greek by Alison Fell
• The Engagement by Chloe Hooper
• The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan
• The Eternal Son by Cristovao Tezza
• The Fifties Mystique by Jessica Mann
• The First Bad Man by Miranda July
• The First Book of Calamity Leek by Paula Lichtarowicz
• The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
• The Friday Gospels by Jenn Ashworth
• The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson
• The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill
• The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
• The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm
• The Grammar of God by Aviya Kushner
• The Green Road by Anne Enright
• The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso
• The Guilty Feminist by Deborah Frances-White
• The Heart Broke In by James Meek
• The Heat of the Sun by David Rain
• The Home Stretch by Sally Howard
• The House on Bellevue Gardens by Rachel Hore
• The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon
• The Human Part by Kari Hotakainen
• The Ice Balloon by Alec Wilkinson
• The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne
• The Incident by Kenneth Macleod
• The Innocents by Francesca Segal
• The Insect Rosary by Sarah Armstrong
• The Islands by Carlos Gamerro
• The Last Pier by Roma Tearne
• The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
• The Liar's Daughter by Laurie Graham
• The Library of Unrequited Love by Sophie Divry
• The Lie by Helen Dunmore
• The Life of Rebecca Jones by Angharad Price
• The Life-Writer by David Constantine
• The Light between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
• The Locals by Jonathan Dee
• The Lost Lights of St Kilda by Elisabeth Gifford
• The Making of Her by Susie Nott-Bower
• The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
• The Margot Affair by Sanaë Lemoine
• The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris
• The Missing List by Clare Best
• The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul
• The Museum of You by Carys Bray
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
• The Natural Health Service by Isabel Hardman
• The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
• The Orange Grove by Larry Tremblay
• The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
• The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
• The Paradise Guesthouse by Ellen Sussman
• The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
• The Parrots by Filippo Bologna
• The Past by Tessa Hadley
• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
• The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories Edited by Margaret Jull Costa
• The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
• The Premonition by Michael Lewis
• The Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble
• The Quickening by Julie Myerson
• The Red Beach Hut by Lynn Michell
• The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan
• The Redemption of Galen Pike by Carys Davies
• The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman
• The Road to Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
• The Road to Urbino by Roma Tearne
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich
• The Scent of Lemon Leaves by Clara Sanchez
• The Scream by Laurent Graff
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• The Server by Tim Parks
• The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh
• The Silence by Alison Bruce
• The Silence Diaries by Jennifer Kavanagh
• The Silent Tide by Rachel Hore
• The Snakes by Sadie Jones
• The Soldier’s Curse by Meg and Tom Keneally
• The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo
• The Spring of Kasper Meier by Ben Fergusson
• The Squeeze by Lesley Glaister
• The Storm by Arif Anwar
• The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam
• The Strange Lockdown Life of Alice Henry by Ann Oakley
• The Stray American by Wendy Brandmark
• The Taste of Apple Seeds by Katharina Hagena
• The Temptation to Be Happy by Lorenzo Marone
• The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura
• The Truth by Michael Palin
• The Truth Will Out by Jane Isaac
• The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
• The Uncommon Reader by Helen Smith
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Undertaker’s Daughter by Kate Mayfield
• The Unfortunates by Sophie McManus
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
• The Unpassing by Chia-Chia Lin
• The Valentine House by Emma Henderson
• The Visiting Privilege by Joy Williams
• The Vogue Factor by Kirstie Clements
• The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Battacharya
• The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
• The Weight of a Human Heart by Ryan O’Neill
• The Woman Before Me by Ruth Dugdall
• The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
• The Woman in the Picture by Katharine McMahon
• The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
• The Zoo by Jamie Mollart
• Their Promised Land by Ian Buruma
• These Wonderful Rumours by May Smith
• They Eat Puppies, Don't They? by Christopher Buckley
• This Is How It Ends by Kathleen MacMahon
• This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
• Three Rooms by Jo Hamya
• Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye
• Through Every Human Heart by Janice Brown
• To Explain the World by Steven Weinberg
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Toby's Room by Pat Barker
• Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee
• Touched by Joanna Briscoe
• Towards Mellbreak by Marie-Elsa Bragg
• Trespassers - A Memoir by Julia O'Faolain
• Trigger Warning: My Lesbian Feminist Life by Sheila Jeffreys
• Two Sisters by Åsne Seierstad
• Under the Rose by Julia O’Faolain
• Upstairs at the Party by Linda Grant
• Us by David Nicholls
• Vengeance in Mind by N.J. Cooper
• Viennese Romance by David Vogel
• Virginia Woolf in Manhattan by Maggie Gee
• Vow by Wendy Plump
• Wake by Anna Hope
• We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas
• We Know You Remember by Tove Alsterdal
• We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida
• We That Are Left by Clare Clark
• We the Animals by Justin Torres
• What We Did in the Dark by Ajay Close
• When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed by Bradley Greenburg
• Why Men Lie by Linden MacIntyre
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• Winter Flowers by Angélique Villeneuve
• Winter Games by Rachel Johnson
• Woman Master by Mehrnaz Stars
• Women Talking by Miriam Toews
• Wonder Girls by Catherine Jones
• Wonder Valley by Ivy Pochoda
• Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves
• Wounding by Heidi James
• You Are One of Them by Elliott Holt