Complete Clue List
Across
1. Richard Llewellyn's 1939 novel "How ___ Was My Valley", was made into a movie in 1941 (5)
4. A 1907 novel by Joseph Conrad "The Secret ___: A Simple Tale" (5)
7. The 2010 novel "___ on Water", was written by the Nigerian novelist Helon Habila (3)
8. Cassandra Clare's second book in The Mortal Instruments series, "City of ___" (5)
9. Australian writer Peter Carey's first novel, winner of the Miles Franklin Award in 1981 (5)
10. Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, "___ Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt (3)
11. A novel by Ian McEwan, first published in 2010 (5)
14. The 2011 best selling book "An Epic Swindle" was written by Brian ___ (5)
17. Published in 2014, "The Beekeeper's Daughter" was written by ___ Montefiore (5)
18. A 1905 novel from E. M. Forster, "Where Angels Fear to ___" (5)
20. "The Red Badge of Courage" was a novel published in 1895, by Stephen ___ (5)
23. A Shakespeare comedy "Much ___ About Nothing" (3)
24. A 1924 novel from English author H. G. Wells, "The ___" (5)
25. The 2009 horror novel "The Strain", was co-authored by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck ___ (5)
26. Jean ___, children's author of "Secret Life of Sally Tomato" published in 2000 (3)
27. William Golding's book "___ of Passage" was awarded the Booker Prize in 1980 (5)
28. "Condemned to Devil's Island" was a 1928 novel by Blair ___ (5)
Down
1. The first novel from Doris Lessing, published in 1950, "The ___ is Singing" (5)
2. "Seven Little Australians" is a children's novel by ___ Turner, published in 1894 (5)
3. French astrologer whose book "Les Prophéties" was first published in 1555 (11)
4. The 1954 memoir "Le Livre de ma Mère" was written by this Swiss writer (6,5)
5. The 1855 book "To Mothers in the Free States", was penned by ___ Lee Cabot Follen (5)
6. Shelagh Delaney's play "A ___ of Honey", premiered in May 1958 (5)
12. The final completed novel by Charles Dickens, "___ Mutual Friend" 1864-65 (3)
13. ___ Larsson, Swedish writer awarded the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award in both 2004 and 2012 (3)
15. "The Third ___", a book by psychologist Chris Lonsdale, published in 2006/07 (3)
16. "You're a better man than I am, Gunga ___", said Rudyard Kipling in 1890 (3)
18. "The Hidden Lives of ___ Women" is a book by Elizabeth Norton published in 2017 (5)
19. A 1998 novel by Richard Preston, "The Cobra ___" (5)
21. A 1957 novel from English writer Elizabeth Taylor (5)
22. John ___, Irish poet whose book "Down in the Deeper Helicon" was published in 1994 (5)