James Patterson
A Scottish kilt: see the Pattern
What’s your name? Bond; James Bond
Jodi Picoult
Maybe: Picture?
And cool + tea Pic or pick + yakult (the yoghurt)
Jodie Foster?
David Baldacci
A bald man. That falls into mud = making this ‘dacci’ sound.
David: Bowie or Cameron or Beckham?
Take your pick.
See wikipedia.
Kate Atkinson
Somehow is sound like attic?
Or: @ + kin (=family) + son (or sun)
Kate Bush? Or cat will do just fine as well.
Jeffrey Archer
There is a good chance you know Jeffrey Archer.
So that’s the picture.
If not: Archer is easy: someone with bow and arrow.
Surely you know a Jeffrey, or Jeff (or Geoff etc.)
Last idea: it does sound like chafing.
John le Carre
A car + a ray
John: Lennon or F. Kennedy or Paul II or Wayne.
Take your pick.
Mo Hayder
Hay: that is easy.
Der: I pushing my luck: Derry (city in Ireland)
Or a little bit like it sounds: dare.
Mo Mowlan.
Or: mowing will do just fine.
Harlan Coben
A cob in a bin.
Hair in a lane.
Simon Toyne
A toy in a ton.
Maybe you watched: Britain’s got talent.
Then it has to be: Simon Cowell
Sophie Kinsella
The kin(dle)?
A bit challenging: according to the dictionary, kin is defined as: a group of persons of common ancestry : clan
I think the kindle is a lot easier. Maybe: a kindle sells = is a sella?
Sophie Ellis-Bextor?
So + Fee.
Or: just give it a try, as ‘so’ on its own is difficult as you can’t ‘put it in a wheelbarrow’, try: sofa + fee. (In your imagination stick the fee somewhere into the sofa...)