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Christopher Paolini
Christopher Paolini’s abiding love of fantasy and science fiction inspired him to begin writing his debut novel, Eragon, when he graduated from high school at fifteen. He became a New York Times bestselling author at nineteen.
>>>> READ ON >>>> Norse mythology >>>>
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Bernard Cornwell
An author probably best known for his series chronicling Richard Sharpe’s adventures during the Napoleonic Wars, Cornwell has also written series on the Grail Quest and the American Civil War.
>>>> READ ON >>>> Stephen Crane >>>>
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Garth Nix
Who will guard the living when the dead arise?
Fast pace, drama, vivid descriptions, excitement and humour … What more could you want? The Guardian
>>>> READ ON >>>> William Nicholson >>>>
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Conn Iggulden
Julius Caesar is fighting hard for his place in the history of Rome. Series includes The death of kings, The field of swords, and The gods of war
>>>> READ ON >>>> Rosemary Sutcliff >>>>
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Ian McEwan
One of Britain’s finest contemporary novelists, Ian McEwan’s novels include Enduring love, Amsterdam and Atonement.
>>>> READ ON >>>> Will Self >>>>
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Anthony Horowitz
The Alex Rider novels include Point Blanc, Scorpia, Eagle strike, Skeleton key and Stormbreaker
>>>> READ ON >>>> Ian Fleming, John LeCarré
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Paul Coelho
Paul Coelho was born in Brazil and has become one of the most widely read authors in the world today. He has received numerous prestigious international awards. His books include the much-loved The alchemist, The fifth mountain and The devil and Miss Prym
>>>> READ ON >>>> Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway
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Yann Martel
After a cargo ship sinks in the Pacific, one solitary lifeboat survives. Its crew consists of a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, a female orang-utan, a Royal Begal tiger and Pi – a 16 year old Indian boy. The life of Pi won the Man Booker Prize in 2002
>>>> READ ON >>>> The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
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Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon’s portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy. Ian McEwan on The curious incident of the dog in the nightime
>>>> READ ON >>>> The diving bell and the butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
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Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Novels about Ancient Greece. Manfredi has also written The Alexander trilogy, Tyrant (about Dionysius of Syracuse), The talisman of Troy (about Diomedes last of the Greek heroes).
>>>> READ ON >>>> Mary Renault
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Robert Harris
As well as a best-selling author, Robert Harris has worked as a political journalist for the BBC and a columnist for The Sunday Times. His novels include the thrillers Fatherland, Enigma and Archangel .
>>>READ ON>>> Len Deighton, John le Carré |
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Hanif Kureishi
"The good thing about writing is that you don't have to have a final point of view, that you can try out different ways of seeing, or different selves"
His published works include The black album, Intimacy and Love in a blue time .
>>>READ ON>>> Armistead Maupin |
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Ursula le Guin
A science-fiction and fantasy writer best known for her Earthsea novels which include A wizard of Earthsea, The farthest shore, The tombs of Atuan, etc. Her latest work, published in 2002, is The other wind .
>>>READ ON>>> Frank Herbert |
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Iain Banks / Iain M. Banks
As 'Iain Banks', Banks writes literary novels, such as The Crow Road and The wasp factory, fuelled with dark, obsessive imaginings. As 'Iain M. Banks', he writes science-fiction, such as Consider Phlebas and Feersum engine, filled with the same wild humour and dark imagination.
>>>READ ON>>> Martin Amis (lit.), Ray Bradbury (sf) |
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JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone, ...chamber of secrets, ...prisoner of Azkaban, ...goblet of fire,... order of the Phoenix,...half-blood prince
>>>READ ON>>> Stephen Elboz, Anthony Horowitz |
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Philip Pullman
An Oxford-based writer most famous for the His Dark Materials trilogy, which includes the Whitbread Book of the Year 2001 The amber spyglass.
>>>READ ON>>> J.R.R. Tolkien |
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Sebastian Faulks
The novels of Sebastian Faulks (for example, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray) are vivid accounts of lives and love affairs played out against the great wars of the 20th century.
>>>READ ON>>> Pat Barker, Julian Barnes |
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Patrick O'Brian
Master and commander
is the first in a sequence of novels about life in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. O'Brian's writing is admired for perfect period detail as well as his charming characterisation.
>>>READ ON>>> C.S. Forester ('Hornblower' novels) |
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J.R.R. Tolkien
In 1939 Tolkien published a children's book The Hobbit, about a small furry-footed person who steals a dragon's hoard. This was the prologue to The Lord of the Rings, an enormous adult saga in which elves, dwarves, wizards, ents, humans and hobbits all unite to destroy the power of evil.
>>>READ ON>>> David Eddings |
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Jonathan Stroud
The Bartimaus Trilogy The amulet of Samarkand, The Golem’s eye and Ptolemy’s gate. A fantasy series set in contemporary London, where humans, magicians and djinn coexist. Bartimaus the 5,000 year old djinni:“I have access to seven planes, all co-existent. They overlap each other like layers on a crushed Viennetta. Seven planes is sufficient for anybody. Those who operate on more are just showing off.”
>>> READ ON >>>> Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell >>>>
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