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Are Britain’s Best Authors Women? They’re Certainly Rockin’ BBC’s Top 100 British Novels List

WORDS Posted: December 8, 2015 6:07 pm

Female novelists wrote six of the top ten titles on the list, including the top three, and make up 40% of the total. The UK certainly has a long tradition of great women authors, from Jane Austen to Hilary Mantel, but previous lists haven’t been quite so equitable. What made the difference here? (Actually, it’s those bloody foreigners.)

WORDS Published: 12.07.15

Read the story in BBC Published: 12.07.15

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