Fiction Books

Fiction Books by Authors with Surnames beginning with A

Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd is a biographer, a poet, a historian and a novelist.
Ackroyd was born on October 5, 1949 in East Acton, London, United Kingdom.
Among his subjects are William Shakespeare, Thomas More and Edgar Allan Poe.
His novels tend to lean to the darker side as in Hawksmoor, which won the Whitbread Prize in 1985.
Similar, but possibly a bit darker is The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, a remake of the Mary Shelley novel, Frankenstein.
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Cecelia Ahern

Cecelia Ahern was born in Dublin in September 1981. She is the daughter of former Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern. She has published 10 Novels and books of short stories. P.S.I Love You, her debut novel, was top bestseller in Ireland, the UK, USA, Germany and the Netherlands and sold in forty countries. While all this was going on she managed to fit in having two children, Robin, a girl in December 2009, and Sonny, a boy, in July 2012. Cecelia is currently working on production projects, such as adaptations to film of her more recent books, such as Where Rainbows End
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Fiction Books by Authors with Surnames beginning with B

Richard Bach

Richard Bach was born on June 23, 1936 in Illinois, USA. Bach has chosen flight as a recurrent theme to his books. Flight is featured in one way or another in all his books. It has been his life as he served in the New Jersey Air National Guard. He was a technical writer for Douglas Aircraft and wrote articles for Aircraft. The Bridge Across Forever and One are connected in that they are both concerned with soulmates. Both books deal with the relationship between Bach and his wife of the time, Leslie Parrish.
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John Banville

John Banville also uses the pseudonym Benjamin Black Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His book, The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize. The Sea won the Booker Prize in 2005. Doctor Copernicus is the first book in the Revolutions Trilogy.
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Fiction Books by Authors with Surnames beginning with C

Truman Capote

Truman Capote was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA on September 30, 1924. Capote died on August 25, 1984 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, USA. Capote labelled his book, In Cold Blood, 'Non-Fiction Novel'. After teaching himself to read and write before his first year in school he prepared for his career in acting. He would also write in his youth and made his break with short stories in the form of 'Miriam' His other big book was Breakfast at Tiffany's which was a great success. Truman was a friend of Harper Lee, who helped him in his efforts to complete In Cold Blood. Answered Prayers in a later novel in which Capote has based his chracters on himself and his acquaintances.
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