J. G. Farrell (1935–1979)

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1. J. G. Farrell

   Author of The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles, The Singapore Grip

2. Paul Scott

   Author of The Jewel in the Crown, The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils

3. Elizabeth Bowen

   Author of The Heat of the Day, The Last September, The House in Paris

4. Graham Swift

   Author of Last Orders, Waterland

5. Rebecca West

   Author of The Return of the Soldier, The Fountain Overflows

6. Richard Hughes

   Author of A High Wind in Jamaica, The Fox in the Attic

7. Patrick Leigh Fermor

   Author of A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube, Between the Woods and the Water

8. Patrick Hamilton

   Author of Hangover Square, The Slaves of Solitude

9. Colm Tóibín

   Author of The Master, The Heather Blazing

10. Peter Carey

    Author of Oscar and Lucinda, Illywhacker, The Tax Inspector

11. J. L. Carr

    Author of A Month in the Country

12. Anthony Powell

    Author of A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement, Spring, The Acceptance World, At Lady Molly's

13. William Golding

    Author of Rites of Passage

14. V. S. Naipaul

    Author of In a Free State

15. Kingsley Amis

    Author of The Old Devils, That Uncertain Feeling

16. L. P. Hartley

    Author of The Go-Between, The Shrimp and the Anemone

17. Rose Macaulay

    Author of The Towers of Trebizond

18. Pat Barker

    Author of The Ghost Road, Blow Your House Down

19. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

    Author of Heat and Dust

20. Iris Murdoch

    Author of The Sea, the Sea