| 100% | SMILEY | 6 | Jane —, author of novels Moo and A Thousand Acres |
| 51% | ITALOSVEVO | 10 | Author of novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 50% | ALANSILLITOE | 12 | Author of novels A Man of His Time and Birthday |
| 50% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Author of novels The Country Girls and A Pagan Place |
| 50% | NICKHORNBY | 10 | Author of novels About A Boy and A Long Way Down |
| 50% | SIANJAMES | 9 | Author of novels A Small Country and Return to Hendre Ddu |
| 49% | AUSTEN | 6 | Jane —, author of novels Persuasion and Mansfield Park |
| 49% | MURDOCH | 7 | Iris —, author of novels The Bell and A Word Child |
| 49% | SVEVO | 5 | Italo —, author of novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 49% | BURGESS | 7 | Anthony —, author of novels Abba Abba and A Clockwork Orange |
| 49% | KELMAN | 6 | James —, author of novels A Disaffection and Kieron Smith, Boy |
| 49% | HARDY | 5 | Thomas —, author of novels A Laodicean and Jude the Obscure |
| 49% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Author of novels The Country Girls and A Pagan Place (4,1’5) |
| 48% | HORNBY | 6 | Nick —, author of novels About A Boy and A Long Way Down |
| 48% | JAMES | 5 | P D —, author of novels Original Sin and A Mind to Murder |
| 48% | PELECANOS | 9 | George P —, author of novels Nick's Trip and A Firing Offense |
| 47% | FORSTER | 7 | E M —, author of novels Howards End and A Room with a View |
| 47% | WHITE | 5 | Edmund —, author of novels A Boy's Own Story and The Farewell Symphony |
| 47% | GALE | 4 | Patrick —, author of novels A Perfectly Good Man and Notes from an Exhibition |
| 47% | WATSON | 6 | Winifred —, author of novels Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and Odd Shoes |
| 47% | NEWMAN | 6 | Andrea —, author of novels A Bouquet of Barbed Wire and A Sense of Guilt |
| 47% | BURN | 4 | Gordon —, author of novels Alma Cogan and Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel |
| 47% | ELLORY | 6 | R J —, author of novels City of Lies and A Quiet Belief in Angels |
| 47% | ONDAATJE | 8 | Michael —, author of novels Anil’s Ghost and In the Skin of a Lion |
| 47% | BARSTOW | 7 | Stan —, author of novels A Kind of Loving and The Watchers on the Shore |
| 47% | STAN | 4 | & 21A Author of novels A Kind of Loving and The Watchers on the Shore |
| 47% | ALEC | 4 | & 19D Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth |
| 47% | ALEC | 4 | & 9D Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth |
| 47% | ALEC | 4 | & 22A Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth |