The blessed girl

Angela Makholwa

Mothering sunday

Rosie Goodwin

Brother

David Chariandy

Johannesburg

Fiona Melrose

The last ballad

Wiley Cash

The heart's invisible furies

John Boyne

The hate u give

Angie Thomas

Sense and sensibility

Jane Austen

Peacekeeping

Mischa Berlinski

The castle cross the magnet carter

Kia Corthron

The illegal

Lawrence Hill

Tuesday Nights in 1980

Molly Prentiss

Who killed Piet Barol?

Richard Mason

The underground railroad

Colson Whitehead

Flood of fire

Amitav Ghosh

A decent ride

Irvine Welsh

The year of the runaways

Sunjeev Sahota

Public battles, private wars

Laura Wilkinson

Dust

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Thirst

Kerry Hudson

Prayers for the stolen

Jennifer Clement

The tightrope walkers

David Almond

The Free

Willy Vlautin

The lives of others

Neel Mukherjee

Let me be frank with you

Richard Ford

Standing heavy

GauZ'

The bluest eye

Toni Morrison

Nora Webster

Colm Tóibín

Kind of kin

Rilla Askew

The garden of burning sand

Corban Addison