Gyles Brandreth

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1. Gyles Brandreth

   Author of Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders, The Joy of Lex: How to Have Fun With 860,341,500 Words, More Joy of Lex

2. Christopher Fowler

   Author of Full Dark House, The Water Room, Seventy-seven Clocks

3. C. J. Sansom

   Author of Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign

4. Boris Akunin

   Author of The Winter Queen, Murder on the Leviathan, The Turkish Gambit

5. Alan Clark

   Author of Diaries: In Power, Diaries: Into Politics, The Tories: Conservatives and the Nation State, 1922-97

6. Mark Gatiss

   Author of The Vesuvius Club, The Devil in Amber, Black Butterfly

7. Anthony Bidulka

   Author of Amuse Bouche, Flight of Aquavit, Tapas on the Ramblas

8. Susan Hill

   Author of The Woman in Black, The Various Haunts of Men, The Small Hand

9. Matthew Parris

   Author of Chance Witness: An Outsider's Life in Politics, Great Parliamentary Scandals: Four Centuries of Calumny, Smear and Innuendo, Read My Lips: A Treasury of the Things Politicians Wish They Hadn't Said

10. Louis Bayard

    Author of The Pale Blue Eye, Mr. Timothy

11. Greg Herren

    Author of Murder in the Garden District, Murder in the Irish Channel, Men of the Mean Streets: Gay Noir

12. Willard R. Espy

    Author of The Game of Words, Almanac of Words at Play, Another Almanac of Words at Play

13. Richard Lederer

    Author of Anguished English: An Anthology Of Accidental Assaults Upon The English Language, Crazy English, The Play of Words

14. Andrew Taylor

    Author of The American Boy, Bleeding Heart Square

15. Sarah Bradford

    Author of Elizabeth: A Biography of Britain's Queen, Diana, George VI

16. John Van der Kiste

    Author of Crowns in a Changing World: The British and European Monarchies, 1901-36, Princess Victoria Melita: Grand Duchess Cyril of Russia, 1876-1936, Dearest Vicky, Darling Fritz: The Tragic Love Story of Queen Victoria's Eldest Daughter and the German Emperor

17. William Shawcross

    Author of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Queen and Country: The Fifty-Year Reign of Elizabeth II

18. Karen Maitland

    Author of Company of Liars, The Owl Killers

19. Paul Dickson

    Author of Words, The Official Rules

20. Tony Benn

    Author of Free at Last!: Diaries, 1991-2001, The Benn Diaries, 1940-90, More Time for Politics: Diaries 2001-2007