- ‘That They Might Face The Rising Sun’ by John McGahern
- ‘Raven Black’ by Ann Cleeves
- ‘Stoner’ by John Williams
- ‘The Long Song’ by Andrea Levy
- ‘A Death in the Family’ by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- ‘Restless’ by William Boyd
- ‘Winter’ by Christopher Nicholson
- ‘Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?’ by Jeanette Winterson
- ‘Politics: Ideas in Profile’ by David Runciman
- ‘Tenth of December’ by George Saunders
- ‘The Elements of Eloquence’ by Mark Forsyth (part)
- ‘George Orwell: English Rebel’ by Robert Colls
- ‘Which Side Are You On?’ by Dick Weissman (part)
- ‘Revolutionary Road’ by Richard Yates
- ‘Oblivion’ by David Foster Wallis (part)
- ‘Perfect’ by Rachel Joyce