Chinua Achebe read from his first novel Things Fall Apart. Published in the late 50's it depicts life in Nigeria before and after colonialism.

Martin Amis' 1991 novel Time's Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

You are likely very familiar with Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. His upcoming book Shalimar the Clown, will be published in October 2006. There were a lot of fantastic writers at this event. I'll put the rest of them up later in the week. Gotta rest up for the Edgars ;-)