Wish You Were Here
by Graham Swift | 
Rule Britannia
by Daphne Du Maurier | 
The Dwarves of Death
by Jonathan Coe | 
Metroland
by Julian Barnes | 
The Closed Circle
by Jonathan Coe | 
The Children's Hour
by Marcia Willett | 
Stay with Me Till Morning
by John Braine | 
Hotel World
by Ali Smith |
An Unsuitable Attachment
by Barbara Pym | 
Legacy of Silence
by Belva Plain | 
Lonely Road
by Nevil Shute |
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
by Rebecca Miller | 
Turn of the Century
by Kurt Andersen | 
Angels
by Denis Johnson | 
The Shadow of the Sun
by A. S. Byatt | 
Wickford Point
by John P. Marquand | 
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
by Jonathan Coe | 
Small Great Things
by Jodi Picoult | 
Prodigal Summer
by Barbara Kingsolver | 
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout |
Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies; and the increasingly unstable Dr Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which must be eradicated . . . A group of students sharing a house. They fall in and out of love, they drift apart. Yet a decade later they are drawn back together by a series of coincidences involving their obsession with sleep - and each other . . . 'Moving, clever, pleasurable, smart . . . one of the best books of the year.' Malcolm Bradbury, The Times 'There are bits that make you laugh out loud and others which make your heart ache.' Guardian 'Fiercely clever, witty, wise, hopeful . . . a compellingly beautiful tale of love and loss.' The Times Literary Supplement