Three Brighton and Hove authors have been recognised by the Queen.
James Herbert, 67, has been made an OBE in the Queen´s Birthday Honours List.
The horror writer, who lives just outside Brighton, has been honoured for services to literature.
His bestselling novels include The Rats and The Fog.
Marguerite Patten, 94, who also lives in Brighton, has been made a CBE in the Birthday Honours.
The cookery writer has been honoured for services to the food industry.
She became famous during the Second World War on the Kitchen Front – her BBC radio programme on which she broadcast nourishing and creative recipes using rationed food.
She has written numerous cookery books and presented TV cookery programmes.
In 1991 she was appointed an OBE.
A Hove author and academic was also made a CBE.
Professor David Gann, a former member of the academic staff at Sussex University in Falmer, has been honoured for services to engineering.
Professor Gann, a chartered civil engineer, has written extensively about innovation technology and is chair in Technology and Innovation Management at Imperial College London and heads the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group there.
