| DUMAURIER | Author noted for her novels set in Cornwall including Jamaica Inn, Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek, My Cousin Rachel and Castle Dor (2,7) |
| PEARLS | Her novels set in China won the Nobel prize for literature in 1938, ... Buck (5,1) |
| GILL | ___ Hornby, author noted for her novels Miss Austen and The Hive (4) |
| GRAHAM | Author who wrote the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall including The Black Moon, T |
| QUOITS | Rings for encircling hobs or pegs in a game of the same name; or, megalithic cromlechs or dolmens such as any of those in Cornwall including the "giant's house" (6) |
| DAPHNE | Author of Jamaica Inn, Rebecca and The Birds. (6,2,7) |
| CORNWALL | Area where Daphne du Maurier set her novels including Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek and My Cousin Rachel (8) |
| EDITH | ____ Wharton, U.S. author noted for her novel The House Of Mirth published in 1905 (5) |
| RENAULT | Mary, pen name of a writer noted for her historical novels set in Greece (7) |
| NUNEATON | Town noted for its connections to George Eliot, who was born locally on the Arbury Estate and drew inspiration from the area for her novels (8) |
| HILARYMANTEL | English novelist who won the Booker Prize in 2009 and 2012 for her novels about Thomas Cromwell (6,6) |
| IRISMURDOCH | Flowery-named author (1919-1999), known for her novels about good and evil, and morality (4,7) |
| RICHARDSON | Dorothy -; author noted for her pioneering use of stream of consciousness in her Pilgrimage sequence of 13 chapter-novels (10) |
| JHABVALA | Ruth Prawer, German-born U.S. author noted for her novel Heat And Dust (8) |
| ALLENDE | Isabel, writer noted for her novel The House Of The Spirits, published in 1982 (7) |
| BRADFORD | Barbara Taylor, late author noted for her novel A Woman Of Substance (8) |
| WEBB | Author noted for novels set in the Shropshire countryside including Gone to Earth and Precious Bane (4) |
| REBECCA | Novel by Daphne du Maurier, author of Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek and My Cousin Rachel (7) |
| COOPER | Jilly, English author born in 1937 noted for her novel Riders and the Rutshire Chronicles (6) |
| VAL | Crime writer known for her novels featuring Dr Tony Hill (3,8) |
