Classical music

Joy Cowley

The Blackwater lightship

Colm Tóibín

The hours

Michael Cunningham

Telling Liddy

Anne Fine

Wolf Solent

John Cowper Powys

The pilot's wife

Anita Shreve

The love of a good woman

Alice Munro

The safe house

Nicci French

Grace notes

Bernard Mac Laverty

Europa

Tim Parks

The memory game

Nicci French

The god of small things

Arundhati Roy

A new life

Bernard Malamud

Independence Day

Richard Ford

The shipping news

Annie Proulx

The Angel Tree

Lucinda Riley

The catcher in the rye

J.D. Salinger

The riders

Tim Winton

The gift of Asher Lev

Chaim Potok

Welcome to the real world

Ann Coburn

The heather blazing

Colm Tóibín

Plain girl

Arthur Miller

The famished road

Ben Okri

Rudin

Ivan Turgenev

Passing on

Penelope Lively

The remains of the day

Kazuo Ishiguro

The silence of the lambs

Thomas Harris

The enigma of arrival

V.S. Naipaul

The eighth day

Thornton Wilder

Moon Tiger

Penelope Lively