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.

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.

Maggie O’Farrell’s LAND (£25, Tinder Press) is a gloriously written, family saga set in nineteenth century Ireland, in the wake of the Irish Potato Famine of the mid 1800s.