The writer's choice series features writers writing about books. Below is a list of the pieces that appeared during the fourth year of the series, with the links to them. There is a comprehensive index for the entire series here.
Imran Ahmad on the Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
Andrew Anthony on Cultural Amnesia by Clive James
Phillipa Ashley on reading and writing romantic fiction
Annie Ashworth on Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
Jenn Ashworth on A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
Melissa Benn on Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser
Mark Billingham on The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Russell Blackford on Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Theresa Breslin on The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge
Amanda Brookfield on Howards End by E.M. Forster
Sarah Annes Brown on Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones
Elizabeth Buchan on Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
David S. Cohen on 'Politics and the English Language' by George Orwell
Mitchell Cohen on Imperialism by George Lichtheim
Alain de Botton on Maxims by La Rochefoucauld
Tom Deveson on Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell
Martin Edwards on Bloody Murder by Julian Symons
Kate Ellis on The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
R.J. Ellory on In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Katy Evans-Bush on Divine Comedies by James Merrill
Samuel Fleischacker on The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Helen Garner on The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
Adèle Geras on Dorothy Whipple
Michael Gove on The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al-Aswany
Elizabeth Hanbury on Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer
Bruce Hood on The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, and Descartes' Baby by Paul Bloom
Mary Hooper on Howards End by E.M. Forster
Peter James on Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Richard Jenkyns on Jane Austen and boredom
Charles Lambert on The Memorial by Christopher Isherwood
Caroline Lawrence on The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
Emma Lee-Potter on How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Gideon Lichfield on The Yellow Wind by David Grossman
Andrew Linklater on The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations by Norbert Elias
Edward McPherson on Edgar Allan Poe
Sam Mills on The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Richard Norman on North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Gregory Norminton on Beckett, Nabokov and other writers he enjoys
Louise Pfanner on books she read as a child
Helena Pielichaty on The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Susan Price on Period Piece by Gwen Raverat
Meg Sanders on The Mouse and his Child by Russell Hoban
Jennie Shortridge on some childhood favourites
Brian Smith on Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-Fournier
Alan H. Sommerstein on The Oresteia by Aeschylus
Anne Stott on Mr Bennet in Pride and Prejudice
Alicia Stubbersfield on The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
George Szirtes on The Venetian Vespers by Anthony Hecht
Robert Jan van Pelt on The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
Julia Williams on To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Jonathan Wolff on A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Jason Zinoman on For Keeps by Pauline Kael