Jane Austen - and likely to remain no.1 for the foreseeable future

Agatha Christie - for an amazing set of characters and great storylines every time

Charles Dickens - ditto

Paul Ferrini - Light for the soul

Brian Cox - makes physics and our world 'beautiful'

A.A.Milne - where would we be without Winnie-the-Pooh!

Florence Nightingale - I even went to Istanbul to see her hospital site

George Orwell - he of 1984 fame

George Eliot - she (yes, she) of Middlemarch fame

 .... for starters.