| CAREY | Australian novelist who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang (5,5) |
| PETER | Australian novelist who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang (5,5) |
| PETERCAREY | Australian novelist who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang (5,5) |
| MANTEL | Hilary ___, the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice, for the novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies |
| WHITE | Patrick, Australian novelist who won the 1973 Nobel prize for literature (5) |
| ATLANTA | At the beginning of August, this leading novelist, who has a place on the outskirts of Lanivet, is relocating to a city in Georgia (7) |
| NORAROBERTS | American romance novelist who has sold more than 280 million copies of her works since 1981 (4,7) |
| KENEALLY | Thomas ___, Australian novelist who wrote Schindler's Ark (8) |
| SPHERES | Ancient idea that saw the movement of the planets in the heavens as a kind of dance, the music of th |
| RUSSELL | Philosopher who won the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature for his humanitarian ideals and freedom of th |
| DIAZ | "The True History of the Conquest of New Spain" author |
| GANG | Peter Carey's Booker-winning novel, The True History Of The Kelly ... |
| BOWNN | Novelist and short story writer born in Dublin in 1899 who wrote The Last September, The Death of th |
| RIDGE | The Blue ___ Mountains Of Virginia, location sung about in the Laurel and Hardy song The Trail Of Th |
| CATE | Blanchette of "Oscar and Lucinda" |
| BALTO | In 1925 he served as the lead sled dog for a life-saving medical delivery from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, where people were dying of diphtheria. He and his fellow dogs navigated the last stretch of th |
| SOLOMON | Some of the most savage fighting in the Pacific in WWII occurred over the British protectorate of th |
| ROBERTSON | Leader of the US Christian Coalition which has become increasingly influential in the politics of th |
| SWORDIN | Merlin the magician features in the Disney animation of TH White's story, The ... The Stone (5,2) |
| CURIE | Co-discoverer with her husband of radium and polonium and only woman to have been awarded a Nobel Prize twice (5) |
