| BOYD | Author of 16 novels including A Good Man in Africa, Any Human Heart, Restless and Trio (4) |
| HARRIS | Author of some 16 novels including the Cicero Trilogy and his recent title, Precipice, which is based on the love affair/letters between the former PM H H Asquith and Venetia Stanley (6) |
| ASHE | Pen name under which John Creasey wrote his Patrick Dawlish novels including A Puzzle in Pearls, A Clutch of Coppers, A Nest of Traitors and A Blast of Trumpets (4) |
| CARR | Author of novels including A Day in Summer and A Month in the Country who published his Dictionary of Extraordinary English Cricketers under his imprint The Quince Tree Press (4) |
| IRIS | British author of novels including A Severed Head (1961) (4) |
| HURT | Pain in the casing of human heart (4) |
| GIST | The soldier's a good man in essence (4) |
| SOUL | Any human being |
| EDGY | Restless and full of coffee |
| FORSTER | Author of novels including A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India who was a member of a secret society known as the Cambridge Apostles (7) |
| FFORDE | Author of a number of romance novels including A Vintage Wedding, A Country Escape and A Rose Petal Summer (6) |
| WILLIAMBOYD | Scottish writer whose novels include A Good Man In Africa (1981) |
| SHERLOCK | First name of a fictional detective in novels including A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles (8) |
| DRABBLE | Margaret -; author of a number of novels including A Summer BirdCage, The Millstone, The Radiant Way and The Seven Sisters (7) |
| HOLMES | Protagonist in popular novels including A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles (6) |
| BRADFORD | Barbara Taylor -; author of novels including A Woman of Substance and Hold the Dream (8) |
| BURNETT | Frances Hodgson -; author of around 40 novels including A Lady of Quality, The Secret Garden and The Lost Prince (7) |
| JEALOUSY | 'Cruelty has a human heart,/And ___ a human face' (William Blake 'A Divine Image' (1794) (8) |
| TEY | Pen name of the author who wrote the Inspector Alan Grant novels including A Shilling for Candles and The Daughter of Time (3) |
| INDIA | Country in which novels including A Suitable Boy, The Jewel in the Crown, The White Tiger and Shantaram are set (5) |
