Only wives a hunter ordered for English-born Australian novelist (5,5,6)

'only wives a hunter ordered' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'english-born australian novelist' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'english' could be 'e' (abbreviation) and 'e' is located in the answer.
'born' could be 'n' and 'n' is found within the answer.
'australian' could be 'a' and 'a' is located in the answer.
'novelist' could be 'shute' (novelist Nevil Shute) and 'shute' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'for' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?