11.   The English novelist Murdoch is a well-known intellectual, and the piece caused much buzz in literary circles.

12.   The great English novelist Charles Dickens wrote most of his books on the installment plan.

13.   The story inspired English novelist Beryl Bainbridge in her latest book, Every Man for Himself, short-listed for the prestigious Booker Prize.

14.   Yet by my reckoning, none of these chaps was the first great English novelist.

15.   He was the father of Martin Amis, a leading modern English novelist.

16.   Award-winning English novelist Jeanette Winterson told Saturday how she used to have sex with married women in return for saucepans.