The push

Ashley Audrain

Nick

Michael Farris Smith

The chateau

Catherine Cooper

Every vow you break

Peter Swanson

All the fun of the fair

Caroline Hulse

The wedding party

Tammy Cohen

I couldn't love you more

Esther Freud

Second place

Rachel Cusk

Six weeks to live

Catherine McKenzie

The committed

Viet Thanh Nguyen

His & hers

Alice Feeney

Under the wave at Waimea

Paul Theroux

The guncle

Steven Rowley

Missing pieces

Tim Weaver

My year abroad

Chang-Rae Lee

The anniversary

Laura Marshall

The ladies' midnight swimming club

Faith Hogan

Open water

Caleb Azumah Nelson

Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck

When you are mine

Michael Robotham

Detransition, baby

Torrey Peters

The heart principle

Helen Hoang

Hell of a book, or, The altogether factual, wholly bona fida story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-made mad kid

Jason Mott

Sunset

Jessie Cave

Magpie

Elizabeth Day

The night she disappeared

Lisa Jewell

The island of missing trees

Elif Shafak

The therapist

B A Paris

Unsettled ground

Claire Fuller

Oh William!

Elizabeth Strout