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Coco Mellors
Coco Mellors (born 1989, London) is a British novelist, NYT bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein (2022) and Blue Sisters (2024), both translated into over thirty languages and adapted for screen.
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín, Irish novelist (born 1955, Enniscorthy, County Wexford), author of The Master, Brooklyn, Nora Webster, and The Magician; three-time Booker shortlistee, Costa and IMPAC winner, Columbia professor, Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022–2024.
D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), English novelist, poet, and critic born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire; author of Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover; repeatedly censored, exiled, and later revived by F. R. Leavis.
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731), born Daniel Foe, English novelist, journalist, pamphleteer, and political agent; author of Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year, and Roxana.
David Mitchell (author)
David Mitchell (born 1969) is the English novelist of Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas, The Bone Clocks, and Utopia Avenue, twice Booker-shortlisted and known for genre-hopping interlinked novels sharing one universe. Not the comedian of the same name.
David Nicholls (writer)
David Nicholls is an English novelist and screenwriter, known for his third novel One Day, a multimillion-selling bestseller adapted for film and television, and the BAFTA-winning screenplay Patrick Melrose.
Dinah Craik
Dinah Maria Craik, née Mulock (1826–1887), was an English novelist and poet whose bestselling novel John Halifax, Gentleman (1856) made her one of the era's most popular writers.
Djamel White
Djamel White is an Irish writer and editor from Dublin whose debut novel All Them Dogs (2026, John Murray Press/Riverhead) was longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize, shortlisted for the 2026 Tom Wolfe Prize, and made him the youngest and only Irish author on the longlist.
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing (Doris May Taylor, 1919-2013), British novelist born in Persia and raised in Southern Rhodesia, author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, Nobel Prize in Literature 2007.
E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster, full name Edward Morgan Forster, was an English novelist whose works include A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India.
Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien (1930–2024), Irish novelist and short-story writer from Tuamgraney, County Clare. Her debut The Country Girls (1960) was banned in Ireland; later honors included the Saoi of Aosdána (2015) and the novel Girl (2019).
Edward St Aubyn
Edward St Aubyn (born 1960, London) is a British novelist, author of the semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose quintet including Mother's Milk, shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.
Eliza Haywood
Eliza Haywood (née Fowler, c. 1693–1756) was an English novelist, playwright, actress, and periodical publisher whose debut novel Love in Excess was a 1719 bestseller.
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer of The Last September, The Death of the Heart, and the wartime London novel The Heat of the Day; MI5 reporter, ARP warden, and a modernist often compared with Virginia Woolf.
Elizabeth Day
Elizabeth Day, British novelist, journalist and broadcaster, author of Scissors Paper Stone, The Party, Magpie and One of Us, and host of the How To Fail podcast.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), English Victorian novelist and biographer, wife of Unitarian minister William Gaskell of Manchester; wrote Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, Ruth, and The Life of Charlotte Brontë.
Elizabeth Goudge
Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) was an English novelist and children's writer whose best-known books, Green Dolphin Country and The Little White Horse, sold nearly ten million copies by 1959.
Ellen Wood (novelist)
Ellen Wood, known as Mrs Henry Wood, was an English novelist and magazine editor whose bestseller East Lynne (1861) made her a founder of Victorian sensation fiction alongside Wilkie Collins.
Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist and poet of Haworth, Yorkshire; published Wuthering Heights (1847) and poems as Ellis Bell, revealed in the 1850 second edition; died of tuberculosis at 30.
Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue (born Dublin, 1969) is an Irish-Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and literary historian living in London, Ontario; author of Room (2010), a Man Booker-shortlisted bestseller adapted into an Oscar-winning film, plus The Wonder, The Pull of the Stars, and The Paris Express.
Esther Freud
Esther Freud, born in London in 1963, is a British novelist best known for her semi-autobiographical 1992 debut Hideous Kinky, made into a film starring Kate Winslet.
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh (1903-1966), English satirical novelist and Catholic convert, author of Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, Brideshead Revisited, and the Sword of Honour trilogy.
Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon (Franklin Birkinshaw, 1931–2023), British novelist and screenwriter, author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and Booker-shortlisted Praxis; wrote Upstairs Downstairs pilot, BBC Pride and Prejudice, and The Bulgari Connection; CBE 2001.
Ferdia Lennon
Ferdia Lennon, Irish novelist from Dublin with a Libyan father, author of the 2024 debut Glorious Exploits, a Sunday Times bestseller set in 412 BC Syracuse narrated in Dublin vernacular, winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction and Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prizes.
Flann O'Brien
Flann O'Brien was the best-known pen name of Irish novelist Brian O'Nolan (1911 to 1966), now ranked with Joyce and Beckett as a leading figure of Irish modernism.
Florence Knapp (author)
Florence Knapp is a British author whose 2025 debut novel The Names (Viking) traces three parallel life paths of a boy named Bear, Julian, or Gordon, and who previously wrote the 2018 quilting guide Flossie Teacakes' Guide to English Paper Piecing.
Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford (born Ford Hermann Hueffer, 1873–1939), British modernist novelist, poet, critic, and editor, author of The Good Soldier and Parade's End, collaborator of Joseph Conrad, founder of the English Review and the transatlantic review.
Frances Brooke
Frances Brooke (1724–1789) was an English novelist and playwright whose epistolary novel The History of Emily Montague, written in Quebec, is often called the first Canadian novel.
Frances Burney
Frances Burney, known as Fanny and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English novelist and diarist whose 1778 novel Evelina paved the way for Jane Austen.
Frances Sheridan
Frances Sheridan, born Frances Chamberlaine (1724–1766), was an Irish novelist and dramatist, author of the epistolary novel Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (1761) and mother of playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.