Who is this grumpy little pup having a go at our best novelist?

Hollinghurst has a strong, perhaps unassailable claim to be the best English novelist working today.

Only a few of our best novelists even consented to look up at what was going on.

Tolerant of inconsistency, the best novelists have always remained more open to memory and experience.

Furthermore, she is one of the best English novelists ever.

I asked him for the name of the best novelist on his list.

That seems the minimum due a writer who is surely among the two or three best novelists in England today.

He is cited as one of the best historical novelists in Japan.

In 2003 she was named New Zealand's best novelist under forty.

"The best English novelist writing today," that sort of thing.