Exciting times
naoise dolan

Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café -2-
Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Must I Go
Yiyun Li

Matrix
lauren groff

Troy: our greatest story retold
stephen fry

Second place
rachel cusk

Catcher in the rye
j. d. salinger

Bear
Marian Engel

The island of missing trees
elif shafak

Winter
ali smith

The Cat Who Saved Books
Sosuke Natsukawa

The magician
colm toibin

Hamnet
maggie o'farrell

The bell jar
Sylvia Plath

Silence Is My Mother Tongue
Sulaiman Addonia

Bewilderment
Richard Powers