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'The Times' 50 Greatest British Writers..

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Philip Larkin

One to read: The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

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George Orwell

One to read: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

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William Golding

One to read: To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy (1980-89, which includes Rites of Passage)

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Ted Hughes

One to read: Crow (1972)

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Doris Lessing

One to read: The Golden Notebook (1961)

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J.R.R. Tolkien

One to read: The Lord of the Rings (1954-55)

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V.S. Naipaul

One to read: In a Free State (1971)

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Muriel Spark

One to read: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

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Kingsley Amis

One to read: Take a Girl Like You (1960)

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Angela Carter

One to read: The Bloody Chamber (1979)

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C.S. Lewis

One to read: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)

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Iris Murdoch

One to read: The Sea, The Sea (1978)

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Salman Rushdie

One to read: Midnight’s Children (1981)

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Ian Fleming

One to read: Casino Royale (1953)

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Jan Morris

One to read: Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire (1968)

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Roald Dahl

One to read: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)

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Anthony Burgess

One to read: The Wanting Seed (1956)

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Mervyn Peake

Read: The Gormenghast trilogy (1946-59)

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Martin Amis

One to read: Money (1984)

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Anthony Powell

Read: The series A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-75)

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Alan Sillitoe

One to read: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959)

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John Le Carre

One to read: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963)

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Penelope Fitzgerald

One to read: The Blue Flower (1995)

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Philippa Pearce

One to read: Tom’s Midnight Garden (1958)

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Barbara Pym

One to read: Excellent Women (1952)

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Beryl Bainbridge

One to read: The Birthday Boys (1991)

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J. G. Ballard

One to read: Crash (1973)

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Alan Garner

One to read: The Owl Service (1967)

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Alasdair Gray

One to read: Lanark (1981)

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John Fowles

One to read: The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969)

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Derek Walcott

One to read: Omeros (1989)

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Kazuo Ishiguro

One to read: The Remains of the Day (1989)

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Anita Brookner

One to read: Hotel Du Lac (1984)

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A. S. Byatt

One to read: The Virgin in the Garden (1978)

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Ian McEwan

One to read: The Child in Time (1987)

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Geoffrey Hill

One to read: Mercian Hymns (1971)

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Hanif Kureishi

One to read: The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)

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Iain Banks

One to read: The Wasp Factory (1984)

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George Mackay Brown

One to read: Magnus (1973)

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A. J. P. Taylor

One to read: The Trouble Makers (1957)

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Isaiah Berlin

One to read: Russian Thinkers — which includes the essay The Hedgehog and the Fox (1978)

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J. K. Rowling

One to read: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997)

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Philip Pullman

One to read: Northern Lights (1996)

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Julian Barnes

One to read: Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)

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Colin Thubron

One to read: In Siberia (1999)

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Bruce Chatwin

One to read: On the Black Hill (1982)

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Alice Oswald

One to read: Dart (2002)

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Benjamin Zephaniah

One to read: Propa Propaganda (1996)

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Rosemary Sutcliff

One to read: The Eagle of the Ninth (1954)

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Michael Moorcock

One to read: Mother London (1988)

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.. since 1945
view The Times original article (published 2008) here

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sectumsempra

Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Dec 10 5:09

Out of all those people my favourite is J.K. Rowling.

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