Roald Dahl
British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot
20th-century british novelists
S. J. Simon
British journalist, fiction writer and bridge player
John Buchan
British novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation
Julia Blackburn
British author of both fiction and non-fiction
Elizabeth Bowen
Irish – British novelist and short story writer notable for her books about the “big house” of Irish landed Protestants as well her fiction about life in wartime London.
J. G. Ballard
English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World . In the late 1960s, he produced a variety of experimental short stories , such as those collected in the controversial The Atrocity Exhibition . In the mid-1970s, Ballard published several novels, among them the highly controversial Crash , a story about car crash fetishism, and High-Rise , a depiction of a luxury apartment building’s descent into violent chaos
Julian Barnes
English writer
Diana Athill
British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company Andre Deutsch Ltd.