| THOMASHARDY | English novelist who lived in Dorset (6,5) |
| VICTORHUGO | French novelist who lived on Guernsey after being forced into exile by Napoleon III (6,4) |
| EVELYNWAUGH | English novelist who wrote Brideshead Revisited (1945) |
| WILLIAMSON | English novelist who wrote about the countryside in his A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series, Tarka the Otter, Life in a Devon Village and many more (10) |
| AUSTEN | Jane, English novelist who was buried in Winchester Cathedral in 1817 (6) |
| HILARYMANTEL | English novelist who won the Booker Prize in 2009 and 2012 for her novels about Thomas Cromwell (6,6) |
| MANTEL | Hilary _, English novelist who won the Booker Prize in 2009 and 2012 (6) |
| INNES | English novelist who wrote "Campbell's Kingdom" |
| READE | Charles, English novelist who wrote The Cloister and the Hearth (5) |
| EMAILER | English novelist, who doesn't use a pen? (7) |
| EMFORSTER | English novelist who wrote A Passage To India (1,1,7) |
| HARTLEY | L. P. -; English novelist who wrote The Go-Between (7) |
| HORNUNG | English novelist who wrote of the gentleman burglar Raffles (7) |
| SCOTT | Paul, English novelist who authored the "Raj Quartet" series (5) |
| NESBIT | E. -; English novelist who wrote The Railway Children (6) |
| JOHNGALSWORTHY | English novelist who wrote The Forsyte Saga (4,10) |
| TROLLOPE | Anthony _, English novelist who created the fictional county of Barsetshire (8) |
| SHELLEY | Mary, English novelist who wrote the 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein (7) |
| SEBASTIANFAULKS | English novelist who wrote Birdsong and Charlotte Gray (9,6) |
| KNIGHT | Eric, English novelist who created the fictional collie Lassie (6) |
