1.   Anthony Doerr: All the Light We Cannot See

2.   Hans Fallada: Alone in Berlin

3.   William Boyd: An Ice-cream War

4.   Nevil Shute: A Town Like Alice

5.   John Katzenbach: Hart's War

6.   H E Bates: Fair Stood the Wind for France

7.   Nicholas Monsarrat: The Cruel Sea

8.   Ben Elton: Two Brothers

9.   Sadie Jones: The Outcast

10. John Donoghue: The Death's Head Chess Club