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Jennifer Johnston
Benjamin Zephaniah
Tim Butcher
Howard Jacobson
Sarah Hall - The Carhullan Army
Claire Tomalin (on Thomas Hardy)
Roddy Doyle
Yann Martel
Siri Hustvedt
Henning Mankell
Lynne Reid Banks
Orhan Pamuk
Jeanette Winterson
Douglas Coupland
Alexander McCall Smith
John Irving
Linda Grant
Gillian Slovo
Robert Macfarlane
CJ Sansom
Bernard MacLaverty
Kate Grenville
Xiaolu Guo
Andrew Motion
AL Kennedy
Bernard Cornwell
Oliver James
Amitav Ghosh
Fay Weldon
Michael Morpurgo
Gore Vidal - Point to Point Navigation
Colm Toibin
Asne Seierstad
Jan Morris
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Simon Armitage
William Hague
Sarah Dunant
Alice Sebold
Thomas Keneally
Barbara Kingsolver
James Robertson
Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City
Colin Dexter
Germaine Greer
David Mitchell
Jodi Picoult
Jonathan Coe
Alison Weir
Val McDermid
Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
Salley Vickers
Lewis Wolpert
Jane Gardam
Matthew Kneale
Elmore Leonard
John Berendt
Lindsey Davis
Ali Smith
Malorie Blackman
Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin
P J O'Rourke
George Macdonald Fraser
Joyce Carol Oates
Antonia Fraser
Hanif Kureishi
Alain-Fournier
Michael Dibdin
Oliver Sacks
Sue Townsend
Andrea Levy
Richard Ford
Stephen Fry
Bill Bryson
Zadie Smith
Carol Ann Duffy
Pat Barker
Will Self
Paul Auster - New York Trilogy
Muriel Spark
Terry Pratchett
Minette Walters
David Lodge
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Sarah Waters
Peter Carey
Sir John Mortimer
Peter Ackroyd
Esther Freud
Melvin Burgess
Edna O'Brien
Amanda Foreman
T. C. Boyle
Sally Beauman
P. D. James
Beryl Bainbridge
William Trevor
Salman Rushdie
Alan Bennett
Jilly Cooper