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The 4th author is not female, sunray. His surname is the same as another writer whose first name is Jilly.

SORRY sunray, I meant to say the 6th author is not female etc.

Thanks samovar.

I have 4th author whose is a female and writes under another name. But I cannot find her book.

I have all the others.

Sunray, I have the fourth as male and the book is also the name of a town in Devon.

Sorry about my mistake, sunray. The 4th writer is not female, either.

Thank you alwayspuzzled.
Google kept on giving preference to Mr. Amis.

The book is very famous but did not remember the name of the author.

All done now.
Hope next week's puzzle will have less complicated clues.

Just back from a trying and not entirely good day, will peruse your splendid answers tomorrow, as yet am still totally confused about the shading & numbers but will plod on, many thanks to all.

Hi Mary,
Shaded shells are part of the answers.
As indicated earlier in this thread, 3 of them have a single letter and 3 two letters.

Each shaded cell letter/s is derived from a book by each author. Title of the book is like a cryptic clue. For example, say one of the letters in the shaded cell was H and the title of a book by one of the authors was End of Earth, you know H belongs to that author. If that author was fourth in the perimeter, you would write H next to 4 in the bottom row.

Trick is to find the authors, find one book from each one that provides the letters in the shaded cells.

Good luck!