Clive James

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1. Clive James

   Author of Unreliable Memoirs: Autobiography (Picador Books), Falling Towards England (Picador Books), May Week Was in June

2. David Lodge

   Author of Changing Places, Nice Work, The British Museum Is Falling Down

3. Evelyn Waugh

   Author of Scoop, Black Mischief, Unconditional Surrender

4. Kingsley Amis

   Author of Lucky Jim, The Old Devils, The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage

5. Martin Amis

   Author of London Fields, Experience, The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America

6. John Clifford Mortimer

   Author of Paradise Postponed, Clinging to the Wreckage, Where There's a Will

7. Alan Bennett

   Author of Writing Home, Telling Tales, The Complete Beyond the Fringe (Methuen Humour Classics)

8. Spike Milligan

   Author of Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, Rommel? Gunner Who?: A Confrontation in the Desert, The Essential Spike Milligan

9. Peter Carey

   Author of Oscar and Lucinda, Illywhacker, Bliss

10. P. J. O'Rourke

    Author of Holidays in Hell, Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut: Twenty-Five Years of P. J. O'Rourke, The CEO of the Sofa

11. Julian Barnes

    Author of A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Metroland, Staring at the Sun

12. Malcolm Bradbury

    Author of The History Man, Eating People Is Wrong, Rates of Exchange

13. Tom Sharpe

    Author of The Great Pursuit, Grantchester Grind: A Porterhouse Chronicle, The Midden

14. Iain M. Banks

    Author of Complicity, Espedair Street, Canal Dreams

15. Edmund Wilson

    Author of To the Finland Station, The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties, Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York

16. Laurie Lee

    Author of Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

17. Graham Greene

    Author of Brighton Rock, The Confidential Agent, England Made Me

18. Francis Wheen

    Author of How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, Karl Marx, Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

19. Stephen Fry

    Author of The Liar, Moab Is My Washpot, Paperweight

20. Jeremy Paxman

    Author of The English: A Portrait of a People, The Political Animal: An Anatomy, Friends in High Places: Who Runs Britain?