1. Kingsley Amis
2. Beatrix Potter
3. Graham Greene
4. Salman Rushdie
5. Nick Hornby
6. Arthur Conan Doyle
7. Louis de Bernières
8. Doris Lessing
9. Sebastian Faulks
10. Virginia Woolf
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