The death pit / A.L. Kennedy -- Into the Nowhere / Jenny T. Colgan -- Keeping up with the Joneses / Nick Harkaway -- Salt of the earth / Trudi Canavan -- A handful of stardust / Jake Arnott -- The bog warrior / Cecelia Ahern -- The loneliness of the long-distance time traveller / Joanne Harris -- The anti-hero / Stella Duffy.