| HENNING | Swedish novelist who penned the Wallander detective books (7, 7) |
| MANKELL | Swedish novelist who penned the Wallander detective books (7, 7) |
| MELVILLE | Novelist who penned the epic tale based on Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of the giant white whale called Moby-Dick (8) |
| YSTAD | Swedish town where the Wallander novels are set (5) |
| EPITOME | A type of English detective book (7) |
| STRINDBERG | August _, Swedish novelist whose plays include The Father (1887) |
| HENNINGMANKELL | Creator of the Swedish detective Kurt Wallander |
| KENNETHBRANAGH | Thank Han Bergen for translating Wallander on TV (7.7) |
| CHRISTIE | Best-selling novelist of all time who penned the Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple novels as well as the world's longest-running play - The Mousetrap (8) |
| ISABEL | Forename of the author who penned The Shooting Party and The Summer of the Royal Visit (6) |
| COLERIDGE | Lake Poet who penned The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and refers to the phenomenon known as the Brocken spectre in his 1828 piece Constancy to an Ideal Object (9) |
| ECO | Italian medievalist, semiotician and writer who penned the discourse on aesthetics On Beauty and several novels including Foucault's Pendulum and the international bestseller titled The Name of the Ro |
| DOBBS | Life peer, novelist and politician who penned the Francis Urquhart trilogy comprising House of Cards, To Play the King and The Final Cut (5) |
| HEMINGWAY | Influential novelist who penned A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Sun Also Rises (9) |
| WAUGH | Schoolmaster-turned-satirical novelist who penned A Handful of Dust and the book subtitled The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (5) |
| SANSOM | Novelist who penned a series of bestselling Tudor mysteries featuring the "crookback" lawyer-detective, Matthew Shardlake (6) |
| MACLEAN | Alistair -, Scottish novelist who penned Where Eagles Dare (7) |
| DURRELL | Naturalist and zoologist who penned The Bafut Beagles, My Family and Other Animals, Menagerie Manor and The Aye-Aye and I (7) |
| NGAIO | A forename of the author Dame Edith Marsh who penned the Roderick Alleyn detective novels including her classic Christmas murder mystery Tied Up in Tinsel (5) |
| MILNE | Author who penned the line "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart" |
