Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap

Emma Donoghue - Room

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Sadie Jones - The Outcast

Allan Massie - A Question of Loyalties

Tim Winton - Dirt Music

Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Your Father?

Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander

Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit