| BERYL | Liverpool-born novelist whose books include The Dressmaker (5,10) |
| BAINBRIDGE | Liverpool-born novelist whose books include The Dressmaker (5,10) |
| BERYLBAINBRIDGE | British novelist and playwright whose novels include The Dressmaker and Injury Time |
| ALISTAIRMACLEAN | Scottish novelist whose books include The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare (8,7) |
| MOYES | Novelist whose books include The Peacock Emporium, The Horse Dancer, Me Before You and The One Plus One (5) |
| TONIMORRISON | This novelist, whose books include "The Bluest Eye" and "Beloved," won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature (2 wds.) |
| TROLLOPE | Joanna ___, English novelist whose books include The Rector's Wife |
| RODDYDOYLE | Irish novelist whose books include The Commitments and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (5,5) |
| LEHMANN | Bloomsbury novelist whose books include Dusty Answer, Invitation to the Waltz and The Echoing Grove (7) |
| MCEWAN | Ian ___, British novelist whose books include Enduring Love and Atonement (3,6) |
| IAN | Ian ___, British novelist whose books include Enduring Love and Atonement (3,6) |
| WELSH | Irvine _, Scottish novelist whose books include Trainspotting (1993) |
| LEONURIS | American novelist whose books include Exodus and Trinity |
| ERIC | Novelist whose books include Epitaph For A Spy (4,6) |
| AMBLER | Novelist whose books include Epitaph For A Spy (4,6) |
| FAULKS | Sebastian -; journalist-turned novelist whose books include Birdsong, On Green Dolphin and Where My Heart Used to Beat (6) |
| FORSYTH | Novelist whose books, including The Day of the Jackal, The Fourth Protocol and The Odessa File, have been adapted into films (7) |
| JOSEPHCONRAD | Polish-born novelist whose works include Lord Jim (6,6) |
| THOMASHARRIS | Suspense novelist whose book was the basis for the movie "The Silence of the Lambs": 2 wds. |
| HARDY | Dorset-born novelist whose classic story Far from the Madding Crowd was recently dramatised by BBC Films (5) |
