| ENGMAN | Pascal -, Swedish author whose novel Femicide was published in the UK in September (6) |
| BOOKERPRIZE | Big annual literary award for the best novel in English published in the UK |
| JACKSON | Janet - - -, What Have You Done For Me Lately singer touring the UK in September (7) |
| STIEGLARSSON | Best-selling Swedish author whose 'Millennium Trilogy' was published after his death in 2004 (5,7) |
| COOPER | Author whose novel The Last of the Mohicans was adapted into a film starring Daniel Day-Lewis (6) |
| ASTRID | ____ Lindgren, Swedish author who created the character Pippi Longstocking (6) |
| UNEASY | and 22ac, P G Wodehouse novel first published in the US in 1916 featuring the character Ira Nutcombe |
| FOWLES | Author whose novel The French Lieutenant's Woman was adapted into a film by Harold Pinter in 1981 (6) |
| NESBIT | Author whose novel The Railway Children was adapted into a family film starring Jenny Agutter as Bobbie (6) |
| ORWELL | George -; author whose novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was adapted into the film 1984 (6) |
| BRANDT | Photographer with an English Heritage blue plaque whose early pictures were published in The English at Home (6) |
| JEEVES | 1934 novel by P G Wodehouse published In the US as Brinkley Manor (6) |
| NARNIA | Magical land in a series of seven novels published in the 1950s (6) |
| AUSTEN | Author whose novel Pride and Prejudice was Helen Fielding's inspiration for the plot of Bridget Jones's Diary (6) |
| CLARKE | Sir Arthur C. -; science-fiction author whose novel 2001: A Space Odyssey was adapted to screen by Stanley Kubrick (6) |
| FERBER | Edna -; author whose novel Show Boat was adapted into a musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II (6) |
| SEWELL | Anna -; author whose novel Black Beauty was adapted into a television series with Denis King's theme Galloping Home (6) |
| HOFF | Harry S -, English author whose 1934 debut novel Trina was published in the US as It Happened in PRK (4) |
| CONRAD | Joseph ___ , author whose novel Lord Jim features a dog called Rover (6) |
| BRONTE | Author whose novel Wuthering Heights inspired a song by Kate Bush (6) |
