| NEVILSHUTE | Author of the novel, 'On the Beach' (5,5) |
| KEROUAC | Jack, author of the novel On the Road (7) |
| LIUCIXIN | Author of the novel on which "3 Body Problem" is based |
| SHUTE | Nevil ___, author of the novels On the Beach and Beyond the Black Stump (5) |
| ERICAMBLER | He wrote the novel on which 'Topkapi' was based |
| FAULKS | Sebastian, author of the novels On Green Dolphin Street and Human Traces (6) |
| NORTHERN | The novel on which the 2007 film The Golden Compass was based, - Lights (8) |
| NEALCASSADY | US writer who was the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the Jack Kerouac novel On the Road (4 |
| BEACH | Nevil Shute's end-of-the-world novel, On The ... |
| IRIS | Author Johansen with the September 2024 novel On the Hunt |
| WHITEGUARD | The ?, Mikhail Bulgakov novel on which stage play The Days of the Turbins was based |
| RODDYDOYLE | Irish author who wrote the novel on which 7/28 Across was based (5,5) |
| DUNE | 2021 sci-fi epic or the novel on which it's based |
| EVELYN | First woman at empty library takes novel on the left, noting forename of British author |
| ANOTHERCOUNTRY | Novel on the contrary about upper class is one of Baldwin's |
| PARADISE | Narrator of 1957 novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac (3,8) |
| SAL | Narrator of 1957 novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac (3,8) |
| BENHUR | Lewis Wallace's novel on the origins of Christianity (3,3) |
| EVE | Turgenev novel "On the ___" |
| DEATH | Agatha Christie novel, ...on the Nile |
