By 16 October, one of them will have written the best novel of the year.
Hilary Mantel, James Meek, Stephen May and Joff Winterhart have been shortlisted for best novel in the Costa Book Awards.
First awarded in 2007, the Man Asian literary prize, is given annually to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in or translated into English, published in the previous calendar year.
The award for best debut novel, now in its sixth year, is named after the distinguished publisher and literary agent who died in 2003.
The 17th-century residence played a role in both the book and film version of Dan Brown 's best selling novel, The Da Vinci Code, as the home of English historian Sir Leigh Teabing.
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In the opening scene of Ian McEwan's current best-selling novel "Saturday, " his protagonist sees an explosion in the predawn sky.
For many, the group first gained wide attention when it was portrayed in Dan Brown's best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code.
If you've been anywhere near an airport bookstore, you know "The Kite Runner" is also a best-selling novel written by Khaled Hosseini.
Based on a best-selling novel by Isaac Marion, the movie tells the story of R, a zombie who seems to come back to life thanks to love.
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In his new, New York Times best-selling novel entitled One Second After, historian and author Bill Forstchen describes the devastating effect such a strike could have on America.
The serialized drama from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television, based on Stephen King's best-selling novel of the same name, will premiere on the CBS Television Network on June 24, 2013.
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And Booker and Costa-prize winner Hilary Mantel won the literary award for her best-selling novel, Bring Up The Bodies, beating former Booker rival Will Self and debut novelist, Kerry Hudson.
Playwright Simon Stephens, who adapted Mark Haddon's best-selling novel, joked on stage: "It's a remarkable thing to win an award for popularity - normally people leave my plays in a state of terror!"
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Despite being based on Margaret Atwood's best-selling novel, there was little Hollywood interest in making the film and a number of leading actresses turned down the part before it was offered to Richardson.
But if their protagonists are polar opposites, both stories -- one as told in Aravind Adiga's best-selling novel "The White Tiger, " the other in "Slumdog Millionaire, " the new movie from "Trainspotting" director Danny Boyle -- have much in common.
In a mild surprise, "The Reader, " based on the best-selling novel about a postwar German boy who has an affair with an older woman with a Holocaust-related secret, took home nominations for best picture, best actress (Kate Winslet) and best director (Stephen Daldry).
Based on Jennifer Weiner's best-selling novel, the film is excellent when portraying the lifelong disconnect between two loving sisters: Maggie (Cameron Diaz), a kleptomaniac with no fixed employment and a fondness for one-night stands, and Rose (Toni Collette), who has nothing in her life but her job in a law firm.
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"Pendennis" follows "Pen" through his West Country upbringing to his debt-bilking sojourn at "Oxbridge University" (Thackeray himself spent five unproductive terms at Cambridge), his life as a literary man about town in the London of the early 1840s, his writing of a best-selling novel called "Walter Lorraine, " and his eventual marriage to his milksop cousin Laura.
In this adaptation of the best-selling novel by Allison Pearson (the wife of Anthony Lane, a writer for this magazine), Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Kate Reddy, a Boston investment banker and frequent flyer whose heavy travel routine burdens her with guilt as it makes life at home hard for her architect husband, Richard (Greg Kinnear), and their two small children.
Jim felt this bottom-up approach was the best way to generate novel and exciting story ideas.
The feminist icon best known for her novel Fear of Flying is arousing us once again with a current examination of female sexuality.
And because the internet is a wonderful place, John Forsythe at Blamcast collated the upvotes on Reddit and ranked them to produce a crowdsourced list of the best sci-fi novel ever.
So it might be intimidating, for example, to ask your best friend to edit your novel.
Elsewhere on the list was horror author Stephen King in third place, followed by Tom Clancy, best known for his 1984 novel The Hunt for Red October.
Chronicling Thomas Cromwell's rise from blacksmith's son to a prominent position in Henry VIII's court, the novel became a best-seller after winning the 2009 Man Booker Prize and various other awards.
Former director of the Proms concerts Nicholas Kenyon is knighted, while while playwright and author Hanif Kureishi - best known for his 1990 novel The Buddha of Suburbia - becomes a CBE.
And one sounded like an entry from the annual Bulwer-Lytton contest for the best opening sentence of an imaginary horrible novel.
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Then she gets to "The Scorpio Races, " a best-selling young-adult fantasy novel by Maggie Stiefvater, which Warner Bros. optioned for KatzSmith to develop.
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