“Hilary Mantel: nesh
Andrew O’Hagan: clart
Will Self: pipe down!
Emma Healey: clot
Eimear McBride: yoke
Neel Mukherjee: tight slap
Robert Macfarlane: apophany
Taiye Selasi: chale
Sarah Hall: gloaming
Nick Laird: thrawn
Aminatta Forna: plitter
Paul Muldoon: slipe
Tessa Hadley: cochineal
Blake Morrison: whiffle-whaffle
Paul Kingsnorth: swamm
John Sutherland: widdershins
Nina Stibbe: fetlock”