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There are many, many examples. Irvin Welsh, Rose Tremain, J.R.R Tolkien, JK Rowling, Jacqueline Wilson, Quentin Blake are some.
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George Orwell would be an interesting choice - I'd suggest Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, with a third of your choice. I know you said you didn't want a classical writer, but Charles Dickens really is worth checking out if you want s...
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Print out your free English Authors bingo boards, or make custom ones with Bingo Card Creator. Click here to get started. Give one card to each player. Call off words randomly, for example by using a call list. You can either just say a wor...
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As an American editor, I'm not biased towards certain authors, but I do know that stories not set in America have to be pretty exceptional to succeed in the U.S. market. People like reading about what they're familiar with.
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The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud. Septimus Heap by Angie Sage. Children of the Red King (Charlie Bone) by Jenny Nimmo.
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Nick Hornsby, Irvine Welsh, Roddy Doyle (An Englishman, a Scot & an Irishman), all of which write modern novels in easily understood first person voices.
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The only way you can do that is through research. You need to spend time in a library using Literary Marketplace- the author's Bible. You can buy one too but it costs 300 dollars. You would have to seek out agents that represent books in yo...
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Anything by Agatha Christie. The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Wolf
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Half of pink kingdom's suggestions aren't actually British. It's a start, though, I'm sure. Have you tried Deborah Moggach? She's not got the same tone or style as Tyler, but something, perhaps, of the same emotional territory. I for one...
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