James Hamilton-Paterson

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1. James Hamilton-Paterson

   Author of Cooking with Fernet Branca, Gerontius, Playing with Water: Passion and Solitude on a Philippine Island (Twentieth Century Lives)

2. Jane Gardam

   Author of Old Filth, The Queen of the Tambourine, The People on Privilege Hill

3. Hilary Mantel

   Author of Beyond Black, The Giant, O'Brien, Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir

4. Peter Carey

   Author of Illywhacker, The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account (The Writer and the City)

5. John Lanchester

   Author of The Debt to Pleasure, Mr. Phillips, I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay

6. J. G. Farrell

   Author of The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles

7. Rose Tremain

   Author of Music & Silence, Restoration

8. Alan Hollinghurst

   Author of The Line of Beauty, The Folding Star, The Spell

9. Francis Spufford

   Author of The Child That Books Built, The Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin, Red Plenty: Industry! Progress! Abundance! Inside the Fifties Soviet Dream

10. Peter Ackroyd

    Author of Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, First Light, Milton in America

11. F. Sionil Jose

    Author of My Brother, My Executioner, Mass, Tree

12. Peter Hennessy

    Author of Never again : Britain, 1945-1951, Having it so good: Britain in the Fifties, The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War

13. Penelope Fitzgerald

    Author of The gate of angels, The Beginning of Spring, Innocence

14. Rowland White

    Author of Vulcan 607, Phoenix Squadron

15. Alan Bennett

    Author of The Uncommon Reader, Writing Home

16. William Boyd

    Author of Restless, An Ice-Cream War, The New Confessions

17. Beryl Bainbridge

    Author of Master Georgie, According to Queeney, The Birthday Boys

18. Bruce Chatwin

    Author of The Songlines, In Patagonia, Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989

19. Elaine Dundy

    Author of The Dud Avocado

20. Cyril Aldred

    Author of The Egyptians (Ancient Peoples and Places), Akhenaten: King of Egypt, Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdom