Waterstone’s Bookshop (UK) celebrated its 25th anniversary by producing a list of the 25 contemporary writers they believe most likely to achieve enduring fame.
How exciting to be one of these people right now, eh?:
1. Jo Pratt – food stylist and writer
2. Naomi Alderman – debut novel Disobedience
3. Robyn Young – author of “Brethren Trilogy” about the Crusades
4. Gautman Malkani – author of Londonstani
5. Richard Morgan – dystopian science fiction writer, author of Altered Carbon and Market Forces
6. Louise Welsh – author of Tamburlaine Must Die
7. Jane Harris – author of The Observations
8. Nick Stone – author of noirish thriller Mr. Clarinet
9. Siobhan Dowd – author of A Swift Pure Cry
10. Jasper Fforde – author of “Thursday Next” series
11. Jon McGregor – author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
12. Peter Hobbs – author of The Short Day Dying
13. Steven Hall – author of The Raw Shark
14. Susanna Clarke – author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
15. Dominic Sandbrook – author of Never Had it So Good
16. Ben Wilson – author of The Laughter of Triumph
17. Chris Simms – author of Outside the White Lines
18. Maggie O’Farrell – author of After You’d Gone
19. Marina Lewycka – author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian
20. C.J. Sansom – author of Matthew Shardlake series
21. Julia Golding – author of The Diamond of Drury Lane
22. Helen Oyemi – author of The Icarus Girl
23. Robert McFarlane – author of Mountains of the Mind: a History of Fascination
24. Emily Gravett – children’s author who raised her first child on a bus, author of Wolves
25. Charlotte Mendelson – author of Daughters of Jerusalem
Link to full article in The Independent.
