| 100% | GALE | 4 | Patrick —, author of novels A Perfectly Good Man and Notes from an Exhibition |
| 43% | ALANSILLITOE | 12 | Author of novels A Man of His Time and Birthday |
| 40% | TONYPARSONS | 11 | Author of novels Men from the Boys and One for My Baby |
| 37% | ITALOSVEVO | 10 | Author of novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 36% | SIANJAMES | 9 | Author of novels A Small Country and Return to Hendre Ddu |
| 35% | CORMACMCCARTHY | 14 | Author of the 2005 novel "No Country for Old Men," which was made into a Best Picture-winning movie: 2 wds. |
| 35% | SVEVO | 5 | Italo —, author of novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 35% | KELMAN | 6 | James —, author of novels A Disaffection and Kieron Smith, Boy |
| 35% | HARDY | 5 | Thomas —, author of novels A Laodicean and Jude the Obscure |
| 35% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Author of novels The Country Girls and A Pagan Place |
| 35% | WILLIAM | 7 | & 14D Author of novels Control and Marathon Man |
| 34% | WHITE | 5 | Edmund —, author of novels A Boy's Own Story and The Farewell Symphony |
| 34% | IRALEVIN | 8 | Author of novels The Boys from Brazil and The Stepford Wives |
| 34% | NICKHORNBY | 10 | Author of novels About A Boy and A Long Way Down |
| 34% | SMILEY | 6 | Jane —, author of novels Moo and A Thousand Acres |
| 34% | FENCEPOSTIT | 11 | Note from a receiver of stolen goods? |
| 34% | NEWMAN | 6 | Andrea —, author of novels A Bouquet of Barbed Wire and A Sense of Guilt |
| 34% | BARSTOW | 7 | Stan —, author of novels A Kind of Loving and The Watchers on the Shore |
| 34% | STAN | 4 | & 21A Author of novels A Kind of Loving and The Watchers on the Shore |
| 34% | ALEC | 4 | & 19D Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth |
| 34% | ALEC | 4 | & 9D Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth |
| 34% | ALEC | 4 | & 22A Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth |
| 34% | ANDREALEVY | 10 | Author of novels Fruit of the Lemon and Never Far from Nowhere |
| 34% | FYFIELD | 7 | Frances —, author of novels Blood from Stone and Without Consent |
| 34% | ALCOTT | 6 | Louisa M —, author of novels Little Women and Little Men |
| 34% | LETTE | 5 | Kathy —, author of novels Best Laid Plans and Courting Trouble |
| 34% | MURDOCH | 7 | Iris —, author of novels The Bell and A Word Child |
| 34% | BURGESS | 7 | Anthony —, author of novels Abba Abba and A Clockwork Orange |
| 34% | GALE | 4 | Patrick —, author of novels Ease and Friendly Fire |