Victoria Hislop - The Island

Marilynne Robinson - Gilead

David Almond - Skellig

Sathnam Sanghera - The Boy with the Topknot

Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag

George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia

Andrew Miller on his Costa award-winning novel Pure

Elif Shafak - The Forty Rules of Love

Poet Gillian Clarke - Ice

Jim Crace - Quarantine