- ‘Why The Germans Do It Better’ by John Kampfner
- ‘Inside The Whale’ by George Orwell (from ‘Collected Essays’)
- ‘The Forgotten Waltz’ by Anne Enright
- ‘Empireland’ by Sathnam Sanghera
- ‘Such A Fun Age’ by Kiley Reid
- ‘The Dancer At World’s End’ by Tricia Durdey
- ‘Utopia Avenue’ by David Mitchell
- ‘Visitation’ by Jenny Erpenbeck
- ‘Afterlives’ by Abdulrazak Gurnah