 | The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: £8.49 / Used from: £7.00 Born in the Victorian era and growing up in Edwardian times, a whole generation grew up unaware of the darkness ahead; in their innocence, they were betrayed unintentionally by adults who loved them
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 | Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £10.76 / Used from: £9.00 Sometimes heartbreaking, often very funny, "Summertime" shows us a great writer as he limbers up for his task. It completes the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with BOYHOOD and YOUTH
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 | The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £4.83 An ambitious and lyrical tale of madness and poetry set in Epping Forest
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 | How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £3.65 Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him
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 | The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £6.04 A tale of a man whose memories are slowly eroding. As Alzheimer's begins to wear away his sense of identity, Jake builds stories around his life that inform his feelings of blame and responsibility
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 | Me Cheeta: The Autobiography by James Lever
Buy new: £4.65 / Used from: £1.49 'Me Cheeta may well be the finest Hollywood memoir ever written...right up there with the likes of David Niven.' (Mail On Sunday)
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 | Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Buy new: £8.49 / Used from: £11.37 With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion, suffering and courage
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 | The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
Buy new: £9.67 / Used from: £8.15 'A spellbinding novel about modernism, architecture and twentieth-century Europe. A story as breathtaking as the building in which it is set' (Daily Telegraph)
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 | Not Untrue and Not Unkind by Ed O'Loughlin
Buy used from: £14.97 'Fantastic writing, great subject; a voice that is both passionate and cold. The most exciting first novel I have read in many years' (Anne Enright)
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 | Heliopolis by James Scudamore
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £3.49 Comic, violent and poignant, it's a rags-to-riches tale like no other - the story of a man whose destiny moves him around like a chess piece, and risks taking him to the brink of madness and brutality
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 | Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Buy new: £9.23 / Used from: £8.50 In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when a job is offered in America, it is clear she must go
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 | Love and Summer by William Trevor
Buy new: £11.36 / Used from: £15.00 Its summer and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesnt go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on his bicycle and begins photographing the mourners at Mrs Connultys funeral
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 | The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Buy new: £8.46 / Used from: £4.73 `A gripping story, with beguiling characters . . . As well as being a supernatural tale, it is a meditation on the nature of the British and class, and how things are rarely what they seem. Chilling'
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