• ‘The Tobacconist’ by Peter Seethaler
  • ‘Something I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You’ by Alice Munro
  • ‘Reservoir 13’ by Jon McGregor
  • ‘The Bedside Guardian 2017’ ed. by Gary Younge
  • ‘Virginia Woolf in Manhattan’ by Maggie Gee
  • ‘Chicago’ by Alaa Al Aswany
  • ‘The Coward’s Tale’ by Vanessa Gebbie
  • ‘My Animal Life’ by Maggie Gee
  • ‘Cove’ by Cynan Jones
  • ‘Trumpet’ by Jackie Kay
  • ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ by George Saunders
  • ‘Silver Sister’ by Lillian Ng
  • ‘Rather Be The Devil’ by Ian Rankin
  • ‘Why Dylan Matters’ by Richard F Thomas
  • ‘The God of Small Things’ by Arundhati Roy
  • ’Autumn’ by Ali Smith
  • ‘The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage’ by Todd Gitlin
  • ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ by Shirley Jackson
  • ‘Life and Death are Wearing Me Out’ by Mo Yan (part)