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Charlotte Brontë

English Victorian novelist (1816–1855) who wrote as Currer Bell. Author of Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette, she wrote first-person stories of poor, plain-spoken women who refuse to be diminished.

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Chinua Achebe

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Chris Bohjalian

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Chris Miller

Chris Miller is an American historian who writes about technology, geopolitics, economic power, and Russia. He is best known for Chip War, his history of the global semiconductor industry.

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Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell is a queer Black American fantasy writer based in Glasgow. His debut collection, Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic, won the 2025 Crawford Award for a first fantasy book.

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Christopher Clark

Australian-born historian of modern Europe, Germany and Prussia, known for lucid, large-scale studies of political power, revolution and the origins of war.

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Christopher Leonard

Christopher Leonard is an American business reporter and author of investigative nonfiction about concentrated corporate power, industrial systems and monetary policy.

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Christopher Priest

British novelist (1943-2024) whose fiction moved between science fiction, fantasy and literary writing. Best known for The Prestige, he also wrote the introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of Wells's The Invisible Man.

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Christopher Tolkien

Christopher Tolkien (1924-2020) was the Oxford scholar who edited his father's unfinished mythology into The Silmarillion in 1977, then spent decades publishing the drafts behind it. He also drew the maps of Middle-earth.

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Cixin Liu

Cixin Liu is a Chinese science-fiction writer known for vast, idea-driven stories about cosmic contact, technological power and humanity’s place in the universe.

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Claire Adam

Claire Adam is a Trinidad and Tobago-born novelist based in London. Her debut Golden Child (2019) won the Desmond Elliott Prize, and her second novel Love Forms (2025) was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

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Colleen McCullough

Australian novelist and former neurophysiologist best known for The Thorn Birds. She also wrote expansive historical fiction, family sagas and the Carmine Delmonico mysteries.

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