| MARYBARTON | The first novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848 (4,6) |
| CRANFORD | Episodic novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, published from 1851 to 1853 (8) |
| COUSINPHILLIS | Last completed work by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1864 (6,7) |
| UNIONSTREET | The first novel by Pat Barker, published by Virago Press in 1982, of which the 1990 film Stanley & Iris is a loose adaptation (5,6) |
| LIAR | The ---, the first novel by Stephen Fry, published in 1991 (4) |
| THEFLOOD | The first novel by Ian Rankin, published in 1986 |
| LUCKYJIM | The first novel by Kingsley Amis, published in 1954 (5,3) |
| HEADLONGHALL | The first novel by Thomas Love Peacock, published in 1815 |
| CAREERGIRLS | The first novel by Louise Bagshawe, published in 1995 |
| PICKWICK | The - Papers; the first novel by Charles Dickens (8) |
| EVELINA | The first novel by author Fanny Burney |
| BUDDENBROOKS | The first novel by German Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann (12) |
| ADAMBEDE | What was the first novel by English author George Eliot? (4,4) |
| NORTH | 1855 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell (5,3,5) |
| KAFTAN | 'Mary --', novel by Elizabeth Gaskell (6) |
| ANDSOUTH | 1855 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell (3,5) |
| NORTHANDSOUTH | 1855 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell (5,3,5) |
| ROTH | Novel by Elizabeth Gaskell (4) |
| LOST | The first novel in the Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell, The _ Kingdom (4) |
| ILLUMINATED | 'Everything is *********** ', first novel by Jonathan Safran Foer published in 2002 (11) |
