A. S. Byatt
English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner, and won the 2017 Park Kyong-ni Prize
20th-century english novelists
Lillian Beckwith
English writer best known for her series of semi-autobiographical books set on the Isle of Skye
John Berger
English art critic, novelist, painter and poet
Ronald Blythe
British writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village , an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s
Beryl Bainbridge
English writer from Liverpool
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
Pat Barker
English writer and novelist
J. R. Ackerley
British writer and editor
Douglas Adams
English author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist
Richard Adams
English novelist and writer of the books Watership Down, Maia, Shardik and The Plague Dogs