| JOHNLECARRE | Pseudonym of novelist David Cornwall (4,2,5) |
| CHRISTOPHER | First name of novelist Isherwood (11) |
| LODGE | Comic novelist David in a group of masons (5) |
| BALDACCI | novelist David |
| LAWRENCE | Novelist, David Herbert, whose birthplace home in Eastwood has been transformed into a museum dedicated to his life (8) |
| INSOLVENT | Bust of novelist fractured around tip of nose (9) |
| RHYS | Pen name of novelist of Wide Sargasso Sea (4) |
| KINGSLEY | Novelist and father of novelist Martin, his first book, Lucky Jim, was published in 1955; Sir ... Am |
| AMIS | Kingsley -; author of Lucky Jim who was the third husband of novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard (4) |
| EVANS | What was the real surname of novelist Mary Anne, who was published under the name of George Eliot? (5) |
| ALDERSHOT | Hampshire town west of Guildford, birthplace of novelist Ian McEwan (9) |
| ORWELL | Pen name of novelist Eric Arthur Blair, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four (6) |
| ANTHONY | First name of novelist best known for his 12-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time (7) |
| HUNGARIAN | The nationality of novelist Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the 2025 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (9) |
| MARKTWAIN | Pen name of novelist who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (4,5) |
| IRAN | Country of novelist Jalal Ali Ahmad |
| SYRIA | Home country of novelist Nihad Sirees |
| OUIDA | Pen name of novelist de la Ramee |
| SEBASTIANFAULKS | "Translation suitable?" asks fan of novelist (9,6) |
| CHINESE | Language of novelist in church (7) |
