UK Authors of the Future?

[tamaranth]

UK Authors of the Future Unveiled

I'm heartened by how many I've read (bold, under the cut) and by the number of genre authors -- and women writers, though I wonder if the 50-50 split was coincidence or calculated.

read ... on the TBR shelf
Naomi Alderman
Susanna Clarke
Siobhan Dowd
Jasper Fforde
Julia Golding
Emily Gravett
Jane Harris
Steven Hall
Peter Hobbs
Marina Lewycka
Gautam Malkani
Robert Macfarlane ... well, actually, heard talking and promptly pre-ordered new book by
Charlotte Mendelson
Jon McGregor
Richard Morgan
Maggie O'Farrell
Helen Oyeyemi
Jo Pratt
Dominic Sandbrook
CJ Sansom
Chris Simms
Nick Stone
Louise Welsh
Ben Wilson
Robyn Young

Comments

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I just read the new Lewycka which i must write something about.. and the new O'Farrell looks great and is on my must read list.

Are these really the writers of the future? I thought they were the writers of now!!! (I've only read 4 but I've heard of at least 3 more which for a non reader like me..)

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

Are these really the writers of the future? I thought they were the writers of now!!! </i That's pretty much what I thought, too. Fforde is very prolific, to the point where he's quite irritating, so I'm not sure I actually want him to be a writer of the future! It's not a bad list to have, or a bad list of people, but I'd have thought maybe a list of writers with only a debut novel would fit the description better.

[abrinsky.livejournal.com]

Nick Stone's first book Mr Clarinet is good on setting and atmosphere - Haiti - but plotting and character don't work.

Odd list given how established some of them are - Fforde for example - but is interesting that Gollancz pushing Morgan outside of the genre has had results (maybe they can sell Brazyl to the wider world?