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Max Porter (writer)
Max Porter is a British writer of hybrid prose-poetry novels: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (2015), Lanny (2019), The Death of Francis Bacon, and Shy (2023), a former Granta Books editorial director whose fiction, marked by typographic experiment, won the Dylan Thomas Prize and was Booker-longlisted.
Missouri Williams
Missouri Williams is an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, and editor living in London, known for The Doloriad (2022) and the Booker Prize-longlisted second novel The Vivisectors (2026).
Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark (1918-2006), Scottish poet and novelist born Muriel Sarah Camberg, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; 22 novels, Booker shortlistee, Catholic convert, war propaganda worker, lived in Tuscany, DBE 1993.
Nancy Mitford
Nancy Mitford (1904–1973), English novelist and biographer, eldest of the six Mitford sisters; author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, popularizer of U and non-U, and writer of Madame de Pompadour and The Sun King.
Naomi Ishiguro
Naomi Ishiguro (born 1992), British author and daughter of Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro; wrote Escape Routes (2020), Common Ground (2021), and the anime-inspired fantasy The Rainshadow Orphans (2026).
Natasha Brown (author)
Natasha Brown (born 1990, London) is a British novelist, author of Assembly (2021) and Universality (2025); Cambridge maths graduate, former finance worker, Granta Best of Young British Novelist 2023, Booker-longlisted.
Nicholas Mosley
Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale (1923–2017), English novelist and biographer, eldest son of fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley; author of Accident, Impossible Object (first Booker shortlist), Hopeful Monsters (Whitbread 1990), and his father's two-volume biography.
Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby (born 1957), English novelist and screenwriter, author of Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down; twice Oscar-nominated for An Education and Brooklyn; not the sculptor born 1980.
Olivia Manning
Olivia Mary Manning (1908–1980), British novelist of the Fortunes of War sequence, the Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy, based on her wartime flight with husband Reggie Smith through Bucharest, Athens, Cairo, and Jerusalem.
Pat Barker
Pat Barker (Patricia Barker, born 1943) is a British novelist, author of Union Street and the Regeneration trilogy; The Ghost Road won the 1995 Booker Prize, The Eye in the Door the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize.
Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald, born Penelope Knox (1916–2000), was an English novelist and biographer who won the 1979 Booker Prize for Offshore and the National Book Critics Circle Prize for The Blue Flower.
Political views of J. K. Rowling
Political views of J.K. Rowling: the British author's Labour donation of £1m in 2008, opposition to Scottish independence via £1m to Better Together, Remain campaigning in 2016, and her post-2019 stance on sex and gender, including the J.K. Rowling Women's Fund and For Women Scotland funding.
Polly Samson
Polly Samson (born 1962, London) is an English novelist and lyricist, wife of David Gilmour, author of A Theatre for Dreamers and The Kindness, and lyricist on four number-one albums including The Division Bell.
Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk (born 1967, Saskatoon) is a Canadian-born British novelist and memoirist, author of the Outline trilogy, Second Place, Parade, and Life of M, known for autofiction that dismantles character.
Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle (born 1958), Irish novelist of working-class Dublin, author of the Barrytown Trilogy, Booker Prize winner 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, and Fighting Words co-founder.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927–2013) was a German-born novelist and screenwriter who won the 1975 Booker Prize for Heat and Dust and two Oscars for her Merchant Ivory screenplays.
Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney (born 1991, Castlebar, Ireland) is the Irish novelist of Conversations with Friends, Normal People, Beautiful World Where Are You, and Intermezzo. Known for unmarked dialogue and TV adaptations, and for Faber withdrawing her books from UK sale in 2026 over her Palestine Action support.
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie (born 1947, Bombay) is a British Indian American novelist, author of Midnight's Children (1981 Booker Prize, Booker of Bookers) and The Satanic Verses, target of the 1989 Iranian fatwa and a 2022 stabbing at Chautauqua; author of Knife and The Eleventh Hour.
Sebastian Barry
Sebastian Barry is an Irish novelist, playwright, and poet, born in Dublin in 1955, who has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times and twice won the Costa Book of the Year.
V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul (Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul), Trinidadian-born British novelist and travel writer, Nobel laureate 2001 and Booker winner 1971 for In a Free State, author of A House for Mr Biswas.
Will Self
Will Self (William Woodard Self), born 1961, is an English novelist and journalist known for satirical fiction; his novel Umbrella was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
William Boyd (writer)
William Boyd (born 1952, Accra, Ghana) is a British novelist and screenwriter, author of A Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Any Human Heart, Restless, and the 2013 James Bond novel Solo, known for whole-life fiction and the Nat Tate hoax.
William Golding
William Golding (1911–1993), British novelist, Nobel laureate 1983 and Booker winner 1980 for Rites of Passage; author of Lord of the Flies (1954), a rebuttal of The Coral Island that sold over fifty million copies.
William McIlvanney
William McIlvanney (1936–2015), Scottish novelist and poet from Kilmarnock, author of the Laidlaw trilogy and Docherty; called the godfather of tartan noir, Whitbread and CWA Silver Dagger winner.
William Trevor
William Trevor (William Trevor Cox, 1928–2016), Irish short-story writer and novelist living in Devon, author of The Ballroom of Romance, Fools of Fortune, and Felicia's Journey; Hawthornden and Whitbread winner, four-time Booker shortlistee, knighted 2002.
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith, born 1975 in Willesden, London, is a British novelist and essayist, author of White Teeth, On Beauty, NW, Swing Time, and The Fraud; Whitbread, Guardian First Book, Orange Prize, and Booker-shortlisted writer.