Fiction Books

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.

Top

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


Top

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.

Top

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.

Top

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.

Top

Sophie Dahl

Sophie Dahl was born on September 15, 1977.
She is a novelist and former model.
She is also the grand-daughter of Roald Dahl.

Sophie Dahl has written cookbooks and a children's book.
She has also presented television series on BBC2 which she wrote herself.

Playing With the Grown-Ups is her first novel.

Top

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco was born in Alassandria, Italy on January 5, 1932 and died in Milan, Italy on February 19, 2016.
Umberto Eco was an Italian novelist who found fame with his novel The Name of the Rose.
Umberto Eco was not a one hit wonder as he followed this up with masterpieces such as Foulcoult's Pendulum, and Baudolino.
Eco was also a university professor.
Apart from his fiction, Umberto Eco was very interested in semiotics and linguistics and published and co-authored several books on them..

Top

Duncan Fallowell

Duncan Fallowell was born on September 26, 1948 in London, England.
Fallowell writes novels, travel books and is also a critic, writing for the Spectator.
Satyrday is Fallowell's first novel.
This was followed up by The Underbelly.
Travel books by Fallowell include To Noto, (South of France), One Hot Summer in St Petersburg (Russia) and Going as Far As I Can (New Zealand).

Top

David Guterson

David Guterson was born on May 4, 1956. Guterson is an author of novels, short stories and plays.
He is also a journalist and an essayist.
His most known work is Snow Falling on Cedars.
Guterson was a teacher for ten years.
During this time he was successful in getting stories published in small magazines.
It was his third novel, Snow Falling on Cedars which brought him success on an international stage, selling more than four million copies.
East of the Mountains is another of his novelsTop

Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon was born on September 26, 1962 in Northampton, England. Haddon is a novelist and a poet.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is the most known of Mark Haddon's novels.

Top

Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan on November 8, 1954.

Kazuo Ishiguro is a writer of novels and short stories and also a screenwriter and a musician.
Never Let Me Go is one of his novels.

Top

Tama Janowitz

Tama Janowitz is an American novelist and a writer of short stories.
Tama was born on April 12, 1956 in San Francisco, California, United States.
A Cannibal in Manhattan is her most poular work.

Top

Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey was born on September 17, 1935 in Colorado, USA and died in Oregon on November 10, 2001.

Kesey was an American novelist mostly known for his novel One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest which was made into a film starring Jack Nicholas.
Sometimes a Great Notion is another of his novels.Top

Harper Lee

Harper Lee has produces a fine follow-up novel to To Kill a Mockingbird in Go Set a Watchman Top

Jim Lynch

Jim Lynch was born in Seattle, Washington, USA on November 03, 1961.

Lynch earned degrees in English and Communications from the University of Washington and he went on to report for several newspapers in the area.
The Highest Tide is his first novel received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 2006 as well as featuring on the Richard and Judy Book Club in the UK.

Top

Timothy Mo

Timothy Mo was born in Hong Kong on December 30, 1950 and lived there until he was ten years old.

Mo was educated in the University of Oxford and became a journalist for the Times Literary Supplement.
Timothy Mo self-published Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard in 1995.

Top

Ben Okri

Ben Okri is a Nigerian poet and novelist who was born on March 15, 1959 in Minna, Nigeria.

The Man Booker Prize Best Novel winner (1991): The Famished Road


Top

Tim Parks

Tim Parks was born in Manchester, England on December 19, 1954.

Parks is an author of fiction and non-fiction.
His novel Europa was nominated for the Man Booker Prize in 1997.
Parks currently lives in Verona, Italy.
Tongues of Flame was his debut novel, published in 1985.

Top

Norman Rush

Norman Rush is an American novelist who writes about Botswania in his novels and short stories.
Rush was born on October 24, 1933 in San Francisco, California, USA.
He won the U.S. National Book Award and the 1992 Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize for his novel Mating.

Top

Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold was born on September 6, 1963 in Madison, Wisconsin in the United States of America.

Alice Sebold has written about her rape and the profound it has had on her and those around her.
She published a fictionalised story of rape in The Lovely Bones in 2002.
It wasn't until 2007 that her true story Lucky was published, even though Alice was writing it from the age of 10.

Top

Carol Shields

Carol Shields was born on June 2, 1935 and died on May 16, 2003.

Carol Shields won the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General's Award in Canada for The Stone Diaries, published in 1993.Unless is another of her novels.

Top

Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt is an American author of widely acclaimed novels.
She won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Goldfinch in 2014.

Top

Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov was born on April 15, 1921.

Ustinov was many things.
He had many talents and he was not afraid of showing them.
Ustinov was an actor, film maker, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, showman etc. etc.
Ustinov wrote novels, short stories and plays.
Ustinov was a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy spoke at his funeral.Monsieur Rene is one of Ustinov's later novels about a man discovering new abilities in his later years.

Top

M G Vassanji

M G Vassanji is an author of novels and short stories.
M G Vassanji was born on May 30, 1950 in Nairobi, Kenya.
In June 2015, M G Vassanji was awarded the Canada Council Molson Prize for the Arts.
The Assassin's Song is a tale of India.

Top

David Weiss

The Spirit and the Flesh is a novel inspired by the life of Isadora Duncan.

Top

Patrick White

Patrick White was born in Knightsbridge, London, on May 28, 1912, but moved to Australia with his family when was six months old.

White was the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973.
He has also a recipient of the Miles Franklin Award.
Patrick White died on September 30, 1990 in Sydney, Australia.
A Fringe of Leaves is a novel from 1976.

Top

Richard Yates

Richard Yates was born on February 3, 1926 in New York, USA, and died on November 7, 1992 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

Yates was an American novelist and short story writer who wrote about the middle of the 20th century.
Yates's home life was not a happy one. His parents divorced when he was three and so he moved around a lot.
He left school and joined the army, and spent time in France and Germany during the WW2.
After returning to the US, Richard took to journalism and writing for politicians and corporations, the most notably for Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
His big break came with the publication of Revolutionary Road in 1961.

Top

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Carlos Ruiz Zafon is a Spanish author of books for adults and young adults.
Carlos was born in Barcelona on September 25, 1974.
He has written four books for young adults.
He has also completed a series of four books for adults, "The Cemetery of Forgotten Books", of which The Angel's Game is the second part.

Top

Contents on this Page


Top

Peter Ackroyd

Cecelia Ahern

Richard Bach

John Banville

Truman Capote

Sophie Dahl

Umberto Eco

Duncan Fallowell

David Guterson

Mark Haddon

Kazuo Ishiguro

Tama Janowitz

Ken Kesey

Harper Lee

Jim Lynch

Timothy Mo

Ben Okri

Tim Parks

Norman Rush

Alice Sebold

Carol Shields

Donna Tartt

Peter Ustinov

M G Vassanji

Patrick White

Richard Yates

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

General Fiction Authors on this Site


Top

Peter Ackroyd

Cecelia Ahern

Mitch Albom

Marc Alexander

Monica Ali

Claire Allan

Isabel Allende

Lisa Alther

Martin Amis

Virginia Andrews

Jeffrey-Archer

Chloe Aridjis

Bruce Arnold

Margaret Atwood

Paul Auster

Richard Bach

J G Ballard

Iain Banks

John Banville

Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Sebastian Barry

Martyn Bedford

Arnold Bennett

Maeve Binchy

Giovanni Boccaccios

Dirk Bogarde

Dermot Bolger

William Boyd

Clare Boylan

John Boyne

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Richard Brautigan

Elise Broach

Cassandra Brooke

Brigid Brophy

Dan Brown

Pearl S Buck

Charles Bukowski

Anthony Burgess

William Burroughs

Pierce Butler

A S Byatt

Truman Capote

Peter Carey

Alejo Carpentier

Joyce Cary

Michael Chabon

Stephen Clarke

Chris Cleave

Paulo Coelho

Jenny Colgan

Michael Collins

Larry Collins

Marita Conlon McKenna

Shane Connaughton

Joseph Conrad

Emma Cooke

Robert Coover

Douglas Coupland

Jim Crace

Conor Cregan

A J Cronin

Anthony Cronin

Sophie Dahl

Robertson Davies

Daniel Defoe

Frank Delaney

Tatiana de Rosnay

Martina Devlin

Margaret Dickinson

Michael Dickinson

J P Donleavy

John dos Passos

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Roddy Doyle

Margaret Drabble

Briege Duffaud

Mairead Tuohy Duffy

Lee Dunne

Sabine Durrant

Umberto Eco

Thomas Eidson

George Eliot

Bret Easton Ellis

Anne Enright

Duncan Fallowell

Sebastian Faulks

Carrie Fisher

F-Scott Fitzgerald

Kitty Fitzgerald

Fannie Flagg

Richard Ford

John Fowles

Charles Frazier

Marilyn French

Alan Furst

Jostein Gaarder

Maggie Gibson

Robert Goddard

Jane Green

Zane Grey

David Guterson

Mark Haddon

Mohsin Hamid

Hugo Hamilton

David Hanly

Joanne Harris

Noelle Harrison

Sven Hassel

Shay Healy

Zoe Heller

Hermann Hesse

Christine Dwyer Hickey

Elin Hilderbrand

Melissa Hill

Susan Hill

Peter Hoeg

Alan Hollinghurst

Aldous Huxley

Conn Iggulden

John Irving

Kazuo Ishiguro

Howard Jacobson

Henry James

Tama Janowitz

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Jennifer Johnston

Emma Louise Jordan

James Joyce

Joe Joyce

Franz Kafka

Linda Kavanagh

John B Keane

Cathy Kelly

Richard T Kelly

Thomas Keneally

Douglas Kennedy

William Kennedy

Adrian Kenny

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Marian Keyes

Kevin Kiely

Francis King

Harmony Korine

Milan Kundera

John Lanchester

Mary A Larkin

Harper Lee

Maurice Leitch

Doris Lessing

Primo Levi

Alison Lurie

Jim Lynch

Liam Lynch

Bernard MacLaverty

Bryan MacMahon

Francis MacManus

Brinsley MacNamara

Walter Macken

J Ardle McArdle

Patrick McCabe

Colum McCanns

Children's Books

Mary McCarthy

Robert McCrum

Eugene McEldowney

Ian McEwan

John McGahern

Bernard Malamud

Thomas Mann

Jill Mansell

Stephen Marlowe

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

John Masters

Aidan Mathews

W Somerset Maugham

William Maxwell

John Mary Meagher

Henry Miller

David Mitchell

Timothy Mo

Brian Moore

Danny Morrison

Toni Morrison

Val Mulkerns

Iris Murdoch

Ailish O'Breen

Edna O'Brien

Flann O'Brien

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Gemma O'Connor

Joseph O'Connor

Tommy Frank O'Connor

Peadar O'Donnell

Julia O'Faolain

Sheila O'Flanagan

Timothy O'Grady

Andrew O'Hagan

Ben Okri

Joseph Olshan

T P O'Mahony

Joseph O'Neill

George Orwell

Tim Parks

Tony Parsons

Glenn Patterson

Dale Peck

Cecile Pineda

Sylvia Plath

Terry Prone

E Annie Proulx

Manuel Puig

Deirdre Purcell

Barbara Pym

Thomas Pynchon

John Quinn

Niall Quinn

Robert Radcliffe

Claire Rayner

Piers Paul Read

Lar Redmond

Luke Rhinehart

Tom Robbins

Frank Ronan

Philip Roth

Norman Rush

Edward Rutherford

George Ryan

Patricia Scanlan

Bernhard Schlink

Alice Sebold

Will Self

Mary Ann Shaffer

Tom Sharpe

Carol Shields

Anita Shreve

Lionel Shriver

Paullina Simons

Upton Sinclair

Lillian Smith

Edith Somerville and Martin Ross

Muriel Spark

Michelle Spring

Robert Louis Stevenson

Graham Swift

Donna Tartt

Walter Tevis

William Makepeace Thackeray

Paul Theroux

Thrillers

Colm Toibin

Ben Travers

Maura Treacy

William Trevor

Anne Tyler

John Updike

Peter Ustinov

M G Vassanji

Gore Vidal

Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Marina Warner

Evelyn Waugh

Fay Weldon

H G Wells

Irvine Welsh

Anthony C West

Patrick White

Terence de vere White

Nigel Williams

A N Wilson

Colin Wilson

Jeanette Winterson

P G Wodehouse

Tobias Wolff

Stephen Wright

Richard Yates

W B Yeats

Carlos Ruiz Zafon