2017’s been a glorious year for fiction. So much so, that trying to narrow any list down to just a few titles is a dauntingly Herculean task. Thankfully Joanna Cannon, the author of one of our favourite recent novels, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, is up for a challenge. Here, exclusively for Waterstones, she offers a selection of the fiction she’s been unable to put down this year.

Read our review of the accomplished, captivating and humorous debut The Trouble With Goats And Sheep by Joanna Cannon.

We are delighted to host the last stop on the Trouble With Goats And Sheep Blog Tour. Here, for the first time all in one piece, is Joanna Cannon's short story The Greatest Of These.

Our literary round-up of the last seven days