| ISHIGURO | Author of seven novels including An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go (8) |
| ELIOT | Pen name of the author of seven novels including one based on a linen weaver she called Silas Marner (5) |
| BAINBRIDGE | Author who shared her name with the gem known as beryl and penned novels including An Awfully Big Adventure, The Dressmaker, Sweet William and Winter Garden (10) |
| WEXFORD | Inspector -; character in Ruth Rendell's novels including An Unkindness of Ravens and No Man's Nightingale (7) |
| CASPIAN | Prince ___, the second published of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis (7) |
| NARNIA | Magical land in a series of seven novels published in the 1950s (6) |
| ONO | Masuji ___ (protagonist of Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World) |
| WOODBLOCKS | Items used to create "pictures of the floating world" in the Japanese art of ukiyo-e, such as those at the V&A (10) |
| UTAMARO | Retrospective, to some extent, for a mature artist of the floating world |
| BLACKBIRD | They were taken to Australia and New Zealand in the 19th century. The female of this species makes a nest of plant stems, grass, twigs, and roots in the shape of a cup. In the New World, the name of t |
| VOYAGE | The - of the Dawn Treader ; third of the seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis (6) |
| UKIYOE | Meaning "pictures of the floating world", a style of Japanese painting or woodblock print (5-1) |
| CHINA | Structure that is both a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, the Great Wall of ... |
| BOWEN | Novelist who wrote The Last September, The Death of the Heart, The Heat of the Day and Eva Trout (5) |
| ANGELOU | Pen name of the author of seven autobiographical works including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (7) |
| TIVOLI | Hadrian's Villa, built in the 2nd century CE at this Italian city, is considered the epitome in architecture of the opulence and elegance of the Roman world. The villa, also known as Villa Adriana, wa |
| GEISHA | Sayo Masudo's account of the unromantic reality of Japan's 'Floating World', Autobiography Of A ... |
| ANTHONY | ___ Hopkins, 6D's co-star in The Remains Of The Day and recent BBC production of King Lear (7) |
| COLOSSUS | Name one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the ... of Rhodes (8) |
| BEACH | Apparently Ava Gardner never said that Melbourne was the ideal place to make a film about the end of the world; the film she was making there in 1959 was On The ... |
