Zadie Smith
English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer
20th-century english novelists
Muriel Spark
Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
J. K. Rowling
British author, philanthropist, film producer, and screenwriter
Salman Rushdie
British-American novelist and essayist of Indian descent
Barbara Pym
English novelist
Jonathan Raban
British travel writer, critic, and novelist
Miss Read
English novelist, by profession a schoolmistress
Ruth Rendell
English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford
John Cowper Powys
English philosopher, lecturer, novelist, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 18711879. Powys appeared with a volume of verse in 1896 and a first novel in 1915, but gained success only with his novel Wolf Solent in 1929. He has been seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance , Weymouth Sands , and Maiden Castle have been called his Wessex novels
Philip Pullman
English author of high-selling books, including the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and a fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ