| NEVILSHUTE | British novelist who wrote A Town Like Alice (5,5) |
| SHUTE | Pen name of the novelist who wrote A Town Like Alice and On the Beach (5) |
| MARTINAMIS | *British novelist who wrote "London Fields" |
| NEVIL | ___ Shute, "A Town Like Alice" novelist |
| FLORENCE | A town like Alice? (8) |
| JANEAUSTEN | British novelist who coined the term "dinner party" |
| EMMATENNANT | British novelist who wrote a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice called Pemberley |
| SPRINGS | The title of Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice refers to the Australian town of Alice ... |
| JAMES | US-born British novelist who wrote books including The Portrait of a Lady, What Maisie Knew, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl (5) |
| ELIASCANETTI | Bulgarian-born British novelist who wrote in German, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 (5,7) |
| IAN | British novelist who wrote Casino Royale and Goldfinger, ... Fleming |
| FORESTER | British novelist who wrote the "Hornblower" series |
| WHITE | TH ---, 20th-Century British novelist who wrote The Sword In The Stone (5) |
| MAUGHAM | British novelist who wrote The Moon and Sixpence and The Painted Veil (7) |
| COE | Jonathan, British novelist who wrote 2019's Middle England (3) |
| NAIPAUL | Awarded a Nobel Prize in 2001, a Trinidad-born Oxford-educated novelist who wrote A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State and The Enigma of Arrival (7) |
| FORSTER | Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years, the novelist who wrote A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India (7) |
| OUIDA | Pen name of the novelist who wrote A Dog of Flanders (5) |
| SETH | Vikram ---, Indian poet and novelist who wrote A Suitable Boy (4) |
| EMFORSTER | English novelist who wrote A Passage To India (1,1,7) |
