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James Patterson
James Patterson

'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' – Ian Rankin

Lee Child
Lee Child

Creator of the Jack Reacher series of novels, Lee Child writes gritty crime thrillers that have captured the imagination of millions.

Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyes

British writer Jojo Moyes has twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award for her books The Last Letter From Your Lover and Foreign Fruit.

Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl’s classic – and irreverent – stories are much loved by children and adults alike. He’s responsible for The Twits, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and a host of other wickedly funny children's classics.

Yotam Ottolenghi
Yotam Ottolenghi

Yotam Ottolenghi is a London-based restaurateur and chef. He runs NOPI and Ottolenghi and is the award-winning author of five internationally bestselling cookbooks.

Emma Healey
Emma Healey

Winner of the 2014 Costa first novel award for Elizabeth is Missing, Emma Healey is one of the UK’s finest new writing talents.

Keri Smith
Keri Smith

Illustrator and author of a number of books on creativity, Keri Smith’s work includes Wreck This Journal.

Jo Nesbo
Jo Nesbo

Crime writer Jo Nesbo is best known for his Harry Hole series. He's also written a series of children’s books featuring the inimitable Doctor Proctor.

 

 

 

 

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  • Jussi Adler-Olsen
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  • Catherine Alliott
  • Kingsley Amis
  • Martin Amis
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  • Kate Atkinson
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Jane Austen
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    Malorie Blackman
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  • Jorge Luis Borges
  • Alain de Botton
  • Louis de Bernières
  • Richard Branson
  • Raymond Briggs
  • Anne Bronte
  • Charlotte Bronte
  • Emily Bronte
  • Dan Brown
  • Brene Brown
  • Bill Bryson
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  • Lauren Child
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  • Lynley Dodd
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  • Roddy Doyle
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  • Tom Fletcher
  • Gayle Forman
  • E M Forster
  • Frederick Forsyth

 

 

  • Dick Francis
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  • John Green
  • Sally Green
  • Graham Greene
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  • Bear Grylls
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  • Mark Haddon
  • Mohsin Hamid
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  • Robert Harris
  • Mo Hayder
  • Paula Hawkins
  • Emma Healey

 

  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Jasmine Hemsley
  • Melissa Hemsley
  • Sophy Henn
  • Charlie Higson
  • Eric Hill
  • Susan Hill
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  • Nick Hornby
  • Dan Howell
  • Victor Hugo
  • Aldous Huxley
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  • Henrick Ibsen

 

 

  • Conn Iggulden

 

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  • Howard Jacobson
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  • Tove Jansson
  • Lisa Jewell
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  • Sadie Jones
  • James Joyce
  • Rachel Joyce

 

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  • Franz Kafka
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  • Annabel Karmel
  • Lauren Kate
  • Simon Kernick

 

  • Jack Kerouac
  • Ian Kershaw
  • Marian Keyes
  • Rachel Khoo
  • Dick King-Smith
  • Jeff Kinney
  • Sophie Kinsella
  • Naomi Klein
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • India Knight
  • Marie Kondo
  • Dorothy Koomson
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  • D H Lawrence
  • Nigella Lawson
  • John le Carré
  • Harper Lee
  • Phil Lester
  • Steven D. Levitt
  • Michael Lewis
  • Susan Lewis
  • Clarice Lispector
  • Penelope Lively
  • H P Lovecraft
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  • Javier Marías
  • Helen MacDonald
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  • Neil Macgregor
  • Allan Mallinson
  • Henning Mankell
  • Guy Martin
  • Karl Marx
  • Ian McEwan
  • Roger McGough
  • Andy McNab
  • Richelle Mead
  • Arthur Miller
  • Spike Milligan
  • Nancy Mitford
  • Deborah Moggach
  • Tim Moore
  • Caitlin Moran
  • Erin Morgenstern
  • Liane Moriarty
  • Sinead Moriarty
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  • Morrissey
  • Ian Mortimer
  • John Mortimer
  • Jojo Moyes
  • Alice Munro
  • Haruki Murakami
  • Jill Murphy
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  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • Jo Nesbo
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Audrey Niffenegger
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  • Joseph O'Connor
  • Jamie Oliver
  • George Orwell
  • James Oswald
  • Yotam Ottolenghi
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  • Christopher Paolini
  • Tony Parsons
  • James Patterson
  • Lesley Pearse
  • Prof Steve Peters
  • Gervase Phinn
  • Plato
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Beatrix Potter
  • Dougie Poynter
  • Terry Pratchett
  • Marcel Proust
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  • Justin Quinn

 

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R

 

  • James Rebanks
  • Kathy Reichs
  • Rick Riordan
  • Philip Roth
  • Salman Rushdie
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  • Sheryl Sandberg
  • Jennifer Saunders
  • Alex Scarrow
  • Simon Schama
  • Eric Schlosser
  • Walter Scott
  • Taiye Selasi
  • Will Self
  • Elif Shafak
  • William Shakespeare
  • Jane Shemilt
  • Harry Sidebottom
  • Georges Simenon
  • Graeme Simsion
  • Nigel Slater
  • Ali Smith
  • Keri Smith
  • Zadie Smith
  • Susan Sontag
  • Rick Stein
  • John Steinbeck
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Nina Stibbe
  • Zoe Sugg
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  • Nassim Taleb
  • Paul Theroux
  • Colm Tóibín
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Claire Tomalin
  • Sue Townsend
  • Rose Tremain
  • William Trevor
  • Anthony Trollope
  • Joanna Trollope
  • Mark Twain
  • Anne Tyler
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  • John Updike
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  • Jules Verne
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  • Edmund de Waal
  • Ruth Ware
  • SJ Watson
  • Evelyn Waugh
  • Tim Weaver
  • Alison Weir
  • Andy Weir
  • H G Wells
  • Irvine Welsh
  • Oscar Wilde
  • John Williams
  • Jacqueline Wilson
  • Jeanette Winterson
  • Virginia Woolf
  • John Wyndham
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  • Rick Yancey

 

  • Samantha Young
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  • Émile Zola
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