| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $2000: Call the "P.D."! This British "Queen of Crime" wrote 14 novels featuring Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh P.D. James |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | GOLDBERG VARIATIONS $200: This "lord of the" British novelists was knighted in 1988 (William) Golding |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $400: This author writes that while traveling back to London on a train, "the idea of Harry Potter simply fell into my head" J.K. Rowling |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $800: In 1929 this James Bond creator became a Moscow correspondent for Reuters (Ian) Fleming |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $1200: The biography "Pat and Roald" covers his life with wife Patricia Neal Roald Dahl |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $1600: This "Far from the Madding Crowd" author's first published work under his own name was 1873's "A Pair of Blue Eyes" (Thomas) Hardy |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $2000: Born in Japan, he's published 6 novels, including "Never Let Me Go" (Kazuo) Ishiguro |
| #6079, aired 2011-02-03 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $200: An unflattering version of ex-girlfriend Maria Beadnell appeared in his "Little Dorrit" (Charles) Dickens |
| #6079, aired 2011-02-03 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $400: Her relationship with writer Vita Sackville-West would inspire the play "Vita and Virginia" Virginia Woolf |
| #6079, aired 2011-02-03 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $600: James Hilton's father, a school headmaster, was an inspiration for the title character in "Goodbye, Mr." him Chips |
| #6079, aired 2011-02-03 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $800 (Daily Double): Her only published work under her real name, Mary Ann Evans, was a translation of "Essence of Christianity" (George) Eliot |
| #2947, aired 1997-05-27 | 19th CENTURY NOVELISTS $1000: In 1826 this future British prime minister published his first novel, "Vivian Grey" Benjamin Disraeli |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $300: This British author wrote "The War in the Air" as well as "The War of the Worlds" H.G. Wells |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: Queen of British romance novelists who wrote "The Wicked Marquis" & "The Impetuous Duchess" Barbara Cartland |
| #2632, aired 1996-01-30 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $800: This "Of Human Bondage" author's experiences as a spy inspired his "Ashenden: Or the British Agent" Somerset Maugham |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | WOMEN NOVELISTS $600: In the 1970s this British romance novelist recorded an "Album of Love Songs" with the Royal Philharmonic Barbara Cartland |
| #2285, aired 1994-07-08 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $400: Native country of Kazuo Ishiguro, whose novel "The Remains of the Day" is about a British butler Japan |
| #2196, aired 1994-03-07 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $200: James Clavell's "Tai-Pan" is a fictional account of the founding of this British crown colony Hong Kong |
| #1928, aired 1993-01-13 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $100: The first of his 12 James Bond novels was "Casino Royale" in 1953 Ian Fleming |
| #1928, aired 1993-01-13 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $200: He serialized "The Old Curiosity Shop" in his own weekly magazine, "Master Humphrey's Clock" Charles Dickens |
| #1928, aired 1993-01-13 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $300: This author of "Robinson Crusoe" is regarded as one of the founders of the English novel Daniel Defoe |
| #1928, aired 1993-01-13 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $400: He spent the last 4 years of his life at Vailima, his plantation in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #1928, aired 1993-01-13 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $500: It only took about a year to write the half-million words in his work "The Outline of History" H.G. Wells |
