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• My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
• Scar Tissue by Anthony Keidis
• Filth by Irvine Welsh
• The Making of Henry by Howard Jacobson
• The Most Dangerous Animal of All by Gary L. Stewart
• The Art and Craft of Feature Writing by  William E. Blundell
• The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing
• Freud’s Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones by Brenda Maddox
• Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
• The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobsen
• Junkie by William S. Burroughs
• Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
• The Best of Me by David Sedaris
• Moon Palace by Paul Auster
• Hollywood by Charles Bukowski
• The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
• All that I am by Anna Funder
• Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations by John Diamond
• In my skin by Kate Holden (AUTHOR INTERVIEW)
• The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
• Scission by Tim Winton
• Thinks… by David Lodge
• All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
• The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry
• The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
• Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens
• In Every Face I Meet by Justin Cartwright
• The Most Dangerous Man in the World by Andrew Fowler
• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
• McCarthy’s Bar by Pete McCarthy
• Innocent Blood by PD James
• Short Cuts by Raymond Carver
• Killing Fairfax by Pamela Williams
• Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Prisoner X by Rafael Epstein
• Lost and found in Johannesburg by Mark Gevisser
• The novels of George Orwell
• The Lotus Crew by Stewart Meyer
• Neither Here nor There by Bill Bryson
• Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama
• The Road to Ruin by Niki Savva
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
• In Youth is Pleasure by Denton Welch
• The Blood on My Hands by Shannon O’Leary
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Big Little Lies & The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
• The Wench is Dead by Colin Dexter
• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
• Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson
• Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• More Fool Me by Stephen Fry
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Philomena by Martin Sixsmith
• Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
• Down and Dirty Pictures by Peter Biskind
• Into the Wild by John Krakauer
• Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen
• The Good Doctor and The Promise by Damon Galgut
• Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming
• Women by Charles Bukowski
• Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
• A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• A Dry White Season by Andre Brink
• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to Happiness by Bill Bailey
• The Harry Potter novels by JK Rowling
• A Pocketful of Happiness by Richard E. Grant
• The Daughters of Cain, The Jewel that was Ours and Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter
• The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw by Sheila Hancock
• How it All Began by Penelope Lively
• Too Many Men/Treasury by Lily Brett
• Nice Work by David Lodge
• The Penguin Bicentennial History of Australia by John Molony