| LEOTOLSTOY | Russian author whose first published novels were the Autobiographical Trilogy of 1852-57 |
| THOMPSON | Author of Lark Rise to Candleford, a semi-autobiographical trilogy of novels based on rural life in the Oxfordshire hamlet of Juniper Hill (8) |
| GRAHAM | Winston ____'s best-known novels were the Poldark series |
| NORA | Writer Roberts with more than 230 published novels |
| IRISMURDOCH | Author whose first published novel was Under the Net (1954), about a struggling young writer |
| IAINBANKS | Author whose first published novel was The Wasp Factory |
| LEE | Author of the autobiographical trilogy including Cider with Rosie whose essays were published posthumously in Village Christmas (3) |
| RENDELL | Ruth, crime writer whose first published novel was From Doon with Death in 1964 (7) |
| ENID | Children's author whose first published work was 1922's Child Whispers, _ Blyton (4) |
| KATE | and 40ac, English author whose first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year |
| ATKINSON | see 42ac, English author whose first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year |
| PRIESTLEY | What was the surname of the author whose first names were John Boynton? (9) |
| STIEGLARSSON | Best-selling Swedish author whose 'Millennium Trilogy' novels were published after his death in 2004 (5,7) |
| ANNEBRONTE | 19th-century English author whose two novels were originally published under the pseudonym Acton Bell (4,6) |
| TEDHUGHES | Poet whose first published collection was The Hawk in the Rain |
| ASSEMBLY | Created as a result of the Constitution Act of 1852, the General ... |
| PUSHKIN | Russian author whose works include the novels Eugene Onegin and The Captains Daughter, drama Boris Godunov, and poem Ruslan and Ludmila (7) |
| TOLSTOY | Russian author whose works include The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) (7) |
| CORFU | Immortalised in Gerald Durrell's autobiographical trilogy that includes My Family and other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives, one of the greenest of the Greek islands (5) |
| DURRELL | Author of The Bafut Beagles and Menagerie Manor whose Corfu autobiographical trilogy includes My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives (7) |
