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

Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife

Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever

Paul Theroux - Dark Star Safari

Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies

Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France