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Jeanette Winterson is an British author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. She has received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society o...

David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré was a British Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Near the end of his life, due to h...

Lionel Shriver is the author of the striking novel We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her work often explores difficult family dynamics and societal issues with a sharp, unflinching style.

Mark Haddon (born 26 September 1962, Northampton) is an English novelist, poet, illustrator and screenwriter. He studied English at Merton College, Oxford, and worked with people with disabilities before writing for children, beginning with Gilbert's Gobstopper in 1987. His first novel for adults, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003), won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and was adapted into a stage play that won a Tony Award. Hi...

Victoria Hislop writes historical fiction, including a contribution to the Ox-Tales short story collection. She is best known for her novels set in Greece, such as The Island and The Return. Her books look at how historical shifts impact families and local communities.