Read Wide Sargasso Sea

Feel reggae rhythms, Blue Mountains coffee trails, and turquoise coves of Jamaica

Sethe, a runaway slave, and the ghost of the daughter she killed; Morrison's masterpiece.

The Glanton gang scalp their way across the border in 1849 and the Judge dances; McCarthy's violent Bible.

Willie Lincoln's ghost and a graveyard chorus on one night in 1862; Saunders' Booker.

A butler drives to Cornwall and considers what he gave up for a lord; Ishiguro's Booker.

A lie by a 13-year-old in 1935 and Dunkirk; McEwan's best.

Thomas Cromwell rises under Henry VIII in the present tense; Mantel's first Booker.

Saleem Rushdie, born at the stroke of Indian independence, and a thousand children like him; the Booker of Bookers.