| WOLFHALL | The first novel in Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell trilogy (4,4) |
| WYATT | Poet featured in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy |
| MANTEL | Hilary a"; English author of the Thomas Cromwell trilogy including Wolf Hall and The Mirror and the Light (6) |
| WARDROBE | The Lion the Witch and the ___ first novel in the fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis |
| CROMWELL | Historical subject of Hilary Mantel's 2009 novel "Wolf Hall" |
| NORTHERN | ____ Lights, first novel in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman (8) |
| WIDEACRE | First novel in Philippa Gregory's trilogy of the same name (8) |
| PICKWICK | The - Papers; the first novel by Charles Dickens (8) |
| THEFLOOD | The first novel by Ian Rankin, published in 1986 |
| LUCKYJIM | The first novel by Kingsley Amis, published in 1954 (5,3) |
| BROOKNER | Anita ____'s first novel, in 1981, was A Start in Life |
| LOST | The first novel in the Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell, The _ Kingdom (4) |
| CONCERTI | Pieces in Hilary Hahn's repertoire |
| ADAMBEDE | What was the first novel by English author George Eliot? (4,4) |
| NORTHERNLIGHTS | Title of the first novel in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy (8,6) |
| FAROESE | The first novel in what language was Regin i Lio's Babelstornio (1909) |
| TITUS | The first novel in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series (5,5) (see 51A) |
| GROAN | The first novel in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series (5,5) (see 22A) |
| COMMANDER | The first novel in Patrick O'Brian's naval series was 1970's Master And ... |
| HALL | Wolf -; Hilary Mantel's historical novel chronicling Thomas Cromwell's rise to power (4) |
