The novel was well received by contemporary historical novelists.

Akunin, one of Russia's most famous contemporary novelists, said this was the first time he had ever been to a demonstration.

Martin Amis, an important contemporary novelist, carried into fiction this drive to make the familiar strange.

"Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure of our national literature."

Some contemporary novelists have written detective novels about periods of Norman history, for example, the medieval period.

In the book world, a surprising number of contemporary novelists have drawn inspiration from Irving's tale.

It's an effect that perhaps only Kingsolver, of all contemporary novelists, has the expertise to pull off.

Like a lot of other contemporary novelists, he has tried his hand at screenwriting.

Which is not a thread I've noted in the work of many other contemporary novelists.

Lloyd Jones (born 1951) is a contemporary novelist from Wales.