The Master and Margarita
Novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin’s regime
magic realism
Skellig
Children’s novel by the British author David Almond, published by Hodder in 1998. It was the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year and it won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year’s outstanding children’s book by a British author
The House of the Spirits
Debut novel of Isabel Allende
H. G. Wells
English writer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Polish-born Jewish-American writer who wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated himself into English with the help of editors and collaborators
Salman Rushdie
British-American novelist and essayist of Indian descent
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer
Ben Okri
Nigerian poet and novelist
Toni Morrison
American novelist
Franz Kafka
German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature