- Hadrian the Seventh: A Romance
- Chronicles of the House of Borgia
- The Armed Hands, and Other Stories and Pieces
- The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole: A Romance of Modern Venice
- The Weird of the Wanderer: Being the Papyrus Records of Some Incidents in One of the Previous Lives of Mr. Nicholas Crabbe, Here Produced by Prospero & Caliban
- J.M. Coetzee
- George Eliot
- Daniel Defoe
- Zadie Smith
- Doris Lessing
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- John Fowles
- Patrick Süskind
- Muriel Spark
- Iris Murdoch
- John Banville
- Carol Shields
- Angela Carter
- Ovid
- Anne Michaels
- Apuleius
- François Rabelais
- Madame de La Fayette
- Violet Florence Martin
- Edith Anna Œnone Somerville