Philippa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl

David Baddiel talks about Elizabeth Taylor's Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient

Victoria Hislop - The Island

Marilynne Robinson - Gilead

David Almond - Skellig

Sathnam Sanghera - The Boy with the Topknot

Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag

George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia

Andrew Miller on his Costa award-winning novel Pure