Writers

Andy McNab

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Louise Allen

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Eric Clapton

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Xiaolu Guo

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Philip Pullman (writer)

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Sumner Locke Elliott

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Oprah Winfrey

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John Sutherland

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Norman Lewis

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Henry Morton Stanley

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Michael Maclear

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Richard Hoggart

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Marianne Weber

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Thomas Merton

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René Descartes

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Walter Tevis

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Kerry Hudson

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Sally Bayley

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Alan Dapré

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Lemn Sissay

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Gene Siskel

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Deidre Michell

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William Makepeace Thackeray

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Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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Bryce Courtenay

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Charles Willeford

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Elizabeth Gaskell

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Georges Perec

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J. R. R. Tolkien

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Janet Hitchman

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Jim Tully

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Kenneth Grahame

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Leslie Thomas

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Maxim Gorky

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Patricia Highsmith

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Rosie Waterland

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Phil Frampton

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Alan Johnson

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The Right Honorable Lord Andrew Adonis PC

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Tom Mackenzie

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Nancy Reagan

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Maya Angelou (Writer)

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Mannix Flynn

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Doreen Kartinyeri

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Stella Dadzie

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Leslie Baruch Brent

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Edward Gibbon

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Soren Sveistrup

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Andi Brierley

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Dennis Leoutsakas

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Kate Adie

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Paul Nurse

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World Bike Girl

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Nicky Campbell

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Saki

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Valerie Mason-John

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Mary Douglas

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Kate Shayler

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Richard Wright

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Ruth Westheimer

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Eric Hobsbawm

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Jill Roe

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Dorothy Wordsworth

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Rob Watts

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Annie Besant

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Bernard Smith (art historian)

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Paolo Hewitt

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Floella Benjamin

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Jackie Kay

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Henry Darger

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Paula McLain

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Jenni Fagan

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Jeanette Winterson

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Anthony Burgess

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Augusten Burroughs

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Catherine Cookson

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Charmian London

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Edgar Wallace

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Ernest J. Gaines

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Henry Fielding

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Jack London

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Jean Genet

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John Masefield

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Langston Hughes

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Nina Bawden

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Richard Rhodes

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Rudyard Kipling

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David Plowman

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Louise Beech

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Michael Fuller QPM

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Joseph Livesey

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Paul Fronczak

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Herbert Hoover

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Rosa Guy

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Lesley Pearse

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Glenyse Ward

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Frank Norman

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Billy Connolly (Writer)

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Paula Fox

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Louise Allen

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Chris Wild

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Michael McCarthy

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David Hill

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Derek Owusu

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Harriet Martineau

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Kirsty Capes

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Somerset Maugham

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Yukio Mishima

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Sheilah Graham

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Lisa Cherry

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Stieg Larsson

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Philip Melanchthon

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Joy Williams

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Christopher Wordsworth

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Isaac Newton

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Wayne Dyer

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Oliver Sacks

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Frank Golding

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Keith Saha

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Allan Jenkins

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Louise Wallwein

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Hugh Leonard

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Regina Calcaterra

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Walter Scott

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Alex Wheatle

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Antwone Fisher

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Bertrand Russell

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Charles Dickens

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Elizabeth Bowen

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George Sand

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Hermann Hesse

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Jan de Hartog

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Joseph Conrad

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Leo Tolstoy

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Maree Giles

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P. G. Wodehouse

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Rita Mae Brown

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Richard B. McKenzie

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Nadia Wheatley

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Charles Nalden CBE

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Philip Doddridge

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Angela Carter

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Barack Obama

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Bill Clinton

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Robert Dessaix

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Doris Kartinyeri

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Jenny Diski

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Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson

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J.M. Barrie

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Patricia Cornwell

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Lorenzo Carcaterra

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Leigh Bardugo

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