| CORNWELL | British author best known for his novels about Richard Sharpe, set during the Napoleonic Wars (8) |
| SIMENON | Author best-known for his novels featuring Commissaire Maigret (7) |
| DEFOE | Daniel -, English writer known for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (5) |
| SEANBEAN | Actor who portrayed British Colonel Richard Sharpe (4,4) |
| MARTELLO | Coastal fortification such as those used against the invasion of Britain during the Napoleonic Wars (8,5) |
| RIFLEMEN | Term given to specialised soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars, now a general term for infantry (8) |
| APULEIUS | Lucius ___, Numidian writer of ancient Rome best known for his novel Metamorphoses, also known as The Golden Ass (8) |
| BENELTON | British comedian noted for his novels Dead Famous and High Society (3,5) |
| TRESSELL | Robert ___, Irish writer best known for his novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
| ISHIGURO | Nobel Prize-winning author knighted in February this year, his novels include An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go (8) |
| SMOLLETT | Surgeon who set up a medical practice in Downing Street before writing novels about the adventures of characters including Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle (8) |
| TRICKERY | Hear about Richard beginning to employ deception (8) |
| MELVILLE | Author whose first-hand experiences on a whaling ship formed the basis of his novels including Moby-Dick and Omoo (8) |
| BRIGHTON | Resort town in which Graham Greene set one of his novels (8) |
| GOLDING | William ---, 20th Century British author best known for his novel Lord Of The Flies (7) |
| WILLIAMGOLDING | 20th-century British author best known for his novel Lord Of The Flies (7,7) |
| CONVULSE | First of crude comic novels about university jerk (8) |
| SILLITOE | Alan ----, wrote novels about working-class life (8) |
| FORSYTH | Frederick _, British author best known for thrillers such as The Day Of The Jackal (1971) |
| FLEMING | Ian _, British author best known for his James Bond series of spy novels (7) |
