A personal voice: Anthony Powell, Graham Greene, Iris Murdoch, Murial Spark, Kingsley Amis
The moral imperative: A.S. Byatt, Margaret Drabble, Stanley Middleton, David Storey, Stan Barstow, Alan Sillitoe, William McIlvanney, James Kelman, Alasdair Gray, Iain Chrichton Smith
Politics and the novel: Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer, Brian Moore, William Trevor, V.S. Naipaul, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Piers Paul Read, Fay Weldon
Genre fiction: Anthony Burgess, William Golding, Robert Nye, Peter Vansittart, John Banville, J.G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock, John Le Carré, P.D. James, Ruth Rendell
The contemporary scene: Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, Peter Acroyd, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Emma Tennant, William Boyd, Alan Judd, Anita Brookner, Penelop Lively, A.N. Wilson, Graham Swift, Kazuo Ishiguro, Timothy Mo, Peter Carey
