Conversations With Friends, by Sally Rooney, £14.99

Rooney’s debut novel is a gripping story of 21-year-old Frances and her increasingly complicated friendships. Frances is an aspiring writer/poet and English student, living, but defiantly not working, in Dublin, with her friend (and sometimes girlfriend) Bobbi. Frances embarks on an affair with an older married man, but refreshingly Rooney’s writing remains lacking in judgement.