The Grey Coat Hospital's Top Ten Authors for Autumn 2011

1. Jacqueline Wilson - 288 loans

2. Malorie Blackman - 111 loans

3. Louise Rennison - 94 loans

4. Cathy Cassidy - 92 loans

5. Meg Cabot - 88 loans

6. Robert Muchamore - 74 loans

7. Agatha Christie - 70 loans

8. Mary Hooper - 66 loans

9. Michael Morpurgo - 62 loans

10. Sophie McKenzie - 59 loans

These are the top ten, but I was pleased to see that Charles Dickens was in the top 30, having been borrowed 27 times.

Other honourable mentions go to:

David Almond (21)

EM Forster (19)

Judy Blume (17)

JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis and Kazuo Ishiguro (9)

Sebastian Faulkes (8)