| The Brutal Art | Jesse Kellerman | Sphere |
| The Suspicions of Mr Whicher | Kate Summerscale | Bloomsbury |
| The Gargoyle | Andrew Davidson | Canongate |
| When Will There Be Good News? | Kate Atkinson | Black Swan |
| The 19th Wife | David Ebershoff | Black Swan |
| The Bolter | Frances Osborne | Virago |
| Netherland | Joseph O’Neill | HarperPerennial |
| The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite | Beatrice Colin | John Murray |
| December | Elizabeth H. Winthrop | Sceptre |
| The Cellist of Sarajevo | Steven Galloway | Atlantic Books |
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I think my favourite on the list has to be The Cellist of Sarajevo. I suspect the fact that it was the last to be covered might work not help its chances, but I found that it managed to tackle the subject of ordinary life during wartime with sensitivity without ever getting sentimental or romanticising the horrors.