Charles and Di, Blur vs. Oasis, mobile phones or dial tones... the Nineties were a cultural and technological melting pot. Here, from J. K. Rowling to Jonathan Coe, Ben Okri to Helen Fielding, are some of the authors who best captured the decade in words.

The author of Costa Book Award-winner Middle England talks us through what's on his bedside table at the moment, from vintage psychological thrillers to French bestsellers.

Penguin Random House authors win three of the five categories – Best Novel, Best First Novel and Biography. All three authors will be in the running to win 2019 Costa Book of the Year.

Spanning across five categories, the nominated books range from memoirs, first novels and the very best in poetry.

In this extract, we meet some of the characters that feature throughout the five interlinked stories that make up Number 11, a biting satire on modern day London which takes aim at austerity, social media and the social classes