Module 1

• Surfacing (Margaret Atwood; Virago) *

Module 2

• The Caine Mutiny (Herman Wouk; Little, Brown and Co)

• Catch-22 (Joseph Heller; Vintage) *

Module 3

• The Lovely Bones (Alice Seabold; Picador)

• The Long Firm (Jake Arnott; Sceptre)
• The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer; Flamingo) *

Module 4

• Where I'm Calling From (Raymond Carver; Harvill)*

• White Noise (Don DeLillo; Picador)
• No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre; Vintage)

Module 5

• Trainspotting (Irving Welsh; Vintage)

• Objects of Desire (CJ Emerson; Allison & Busby) *

Module 6

• The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler; Penguin) *

• Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks; Vintage)

Module 7

• Dan Leno & The Limehouse Golem (Peter Ackroyd; Minerva) *

Module 8

• Survivor (Chuck Palahniuk; Vintage) *

• The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy; Flamingo)
• Talking It Over (Julian Barns; Picador)

Module 9

• The State-Of-The-Art (Iain M. Banks; Orbit)

• Small Gods (Terry Pratchett; Corgi) *
• Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (Ursula le Guin; Plume)

Module 10

• Feersum Endjinn (Iain M Banks; Orbit)

• Writers and Artists Yearbook (A & C Black)
• Oxford Guide to English Grammar *
• Fowler's Modern English Usage (Oxford University Press)
• The Elements of Style (Strunk & White; Longman)
• A good dictionary

* = most recommended