Our bundle of the six books shortlisted for this year's Booker prize, spanning historical, political and experimental fiction - six novels for any literature lover to really sink their teeth into. Read more about the titles below:

Flashlight by Susan Choi: A ten-year-old girl and her Japanese-Korean father take a stroll along a Japanese beach and disappear; the girl is washed ashore, alive, but her father vanishes. What follows is a story that crosses continents via a family caught in the tides of Cold War history, in a story both gripping and intimate.

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai: Sonia and Sunny, two young Indians living in the USA, navigate the awkwardness of attempted matchmaking, the world of modern art and industry and most of all their relationship with their home and each other in this epic from previous Booker winner Kiran Desai.

Audition by Katie Kitamura: Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant, one a successful actor and the other a man young enough to be her son. Who they are to each other shifts in this brilliant novel of structural games of performance and reality.

The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits: When Tom’s daughter was six, his wife had an affair, and he resolved to leave her once his daughter turned eighteen. Now, dropping her off at university, he drives away and doesn’t look back. On the run from his family, his job and his own health problems, Tom has to decide who he wants to be, and what is worth abandoning. *

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller: When the deep cold of winter 1962 sets in and two young couples have only each others’ company, secrets emerge. This psychologically intense novel from previously shortlisted Andrew Miller asks whether the past can be forgotten and the future newly made, or whether some secrets are too deep to ignore.

Flesh by David Szalay: Money and sex are the main drives in István’s life, which will take him from his childhood in Hungary to London, where he dramatically rises and falls through the echelons of power. The story of a man at his most primal, Flesh digs deep into uncomfortable questions about what makes us human.

*The Rest of Our Lives is now only available in paperback