George Orwell
English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic
20th-century english novelists
Mervyn Peake
English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator
Iris Murdoch
Irish and British novelist and philosopher
Beverley Nichols
English writer, playwright and public speaker
Patrick O’Brian
English novelist and translator, best known for his AubreyMaturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the IrishCatalan physician Stephen Maturin
A. A. Milne
English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems
Nancy Mitford
English novelist, biographer, and journalist
Michael Moorcock
English writer, best-known for science fiction and fantasy, who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction
Hilary Mantel
British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories
Doris Lessing
British-Zimbabwean novelist