Below is National information compiled by *The Public Lending Right [PLR]. Listings of Top 20 authors include writers who are registered with PLR as well as others who are dead or otherwise ineligible for remuneration under the PLR Scheme. Illustrators of books which have a separate writer have not been included.
The Top 20's are broken down into Adult and Children categories.
Most Borrowed Authors (Adult Fiction) July 2005 - June 2006:
1. James Pattison
2. Josephine Cox
3. Danielle Steel
4. Ian Rankin
5. John Grisham
6. Nora Robertsl
7. Agatha Christie
8 Bernard Cornwell
9. Katie Flynn
10. Patricia Cornwell
11. Michael Connellly
12. Lynda M Andrews
13. Ruth Rendell
14. Jack Higgins
15. Audrey Howard
16. Daisy Meadows
17. Anna Jacobs
18. Catherine Cookson
19. Mary Higgins Clark
20. Joan Jonker
Most Borrowed Children's Authors July 2005 - June 2006:
1. Jacqueline Wilson
2. Janet & Allan Ahlberg
3. Mick Inkpen
4. Roald Dahl
5. Lucy Cousins
6. Lucy Daniels
7. Eric Hill
8. Enid Blyton
9. Francesca Simon
10.Nick Butterworth
11. Ian Whybrow
12. Rose Impey
13. Julia Donaldson
14. J K Rowling
15. Martin Waddell
16. Terry Deary
17. Lemony Snicket
18. Dick King-Smith
19. David McKee
20. Debie Gilori
Most Borrowed Classic Authors July 2005 - June 2006:
1. Roald Dahl
2. Agatha Christie
3. Georgette Heyer
4. C S Lewis
5. Beatrix Potter
6. Charles Dickens
7. Jane Austen
8. J.R R Tolkien
9. William Shakespeare
10. A A Milne
11. George Orwell
12. Thomas Hardy
13. Daphne Du Maurier
14. H G Wells
15. Harper Lee
16. Nigel Tranter
17. Ernest Hemmingway
18. Anthony Trollope
19. Arthur Conan Doyle
20. Charlotte Bronte
Published by:
*Public Lending Right
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E-mail: theregistrar@plr.uk.com
