| THOMASHARDY | English writer whose novels included Far From The Madding Crowd (1874) |
| FORSTER | E M _, English author whose novels included Howards End (7) |
| LEIS | Doris ---, British writer whose novels included The Grass Is Singing (7) |
| LESSING | Doris ---, British writer whose novels included The Grass Is Singing (7) |
| DORIS | Zimbabweanbritish writer whose novels included The Grass Is Singing (1950) |
| RENDELL | Ruth, crime writer whose novels included 1988's The Veiled One (7) |
| ZOLA | Emile ---, French writer whose novels included Nana and Germinal (4) |
| EMILEZOLA | French writer whose novels included Nana (1880) |
| BALLARD | J G _, English writer whose novels include Empire of the Sun and High-Rise (7) |
| IRIS | _ Murdoch, late author whose novels included 1978's The Sea,The Sea (4) |
| MCEWAN | Ian ---, English writer whose novels include Amsterdam and Atonement (6) |
| ORWELL | George ___, English writer whose novels include 1984 and Animal Farm (6) |
| DICKENS | English writer whose novels criticised social injustice (7) |
| JACKKEROUAC | American writer of the Beat generation, whose novels included The Subterraneans (4,7) |
| EDNAFERBER | American author whose novels included Show Boat, Cimarron and Giant (4,6) |
| MARYWEBB | English writer whose novel Gone to Earth was filmed in 1950 (4,4) |
| ANTHONYTROLLOPE | English author whose novels inc ude Barchester Towers and the Palliser series of novels (7,8) |
| JULIAN | English author whose novels include The Sense of an Ending and Flaubert's Parrot (6) |
| BARNES | English author whose novels include The Sense of an Ending and Flaubert's Parrot (6) |
| VIRGINIAWOOLF | English author whose novels include Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse |
