Judith Wilson is a prize-winning writer of short stories. She also writes longer fiction. Her work is imbued with a strong sense of place, clarity of language, and a subtle sense of humour.

Sophie Mackintosh’s laser-sharp novel of infidelity and love, PERMANENCE, is dreamlike in setting, but emotionally unflinching, as it traces the inevitable trajectory of Clara and Francis’s affair.

Through letters and emails, Virginia Evans’s well-observed epistolary novel, THE CORRESPONDENT (Penguin, £9.99) pieces together a dark family secret, hidden until now by its protagonist, feisty Sybil Van Antwerp.

Geoff Dyer’s tender, comic, beautifully detailed memoir of his working class, suburban childhood in Cheltenham, HOMEWORK (Canongate Books, £11.99), is both a slice of social history, and a gloriously written tribute to his childhood and teenage years.