British Literature

English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was born in Poland, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad, and Vladimir Nabokov was Russian, but all are considered important writers in the history of English literature. In other words, English literature is as diverse as the varieties and dialects of English spoken around the world. In academia, the term often labels ...more

Tea & Alchemy
No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done
The Infamous Gilberts
The Sea Child
Departure(s)
Like in Love with You
Rules of the Heart
A Slow and Secret Poison
The Salt Bind
Remember That Day (A Ravenswood Novel)
Belgrave Road: A Love Story
Glyph
The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History
Fire Must Burn (Sparks & Bainbridge, #8)
The Dead Don't Bleed
Time Will Tell
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6
The Rest of Our Lives
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8
Raising Hare: A Memoir
The Restoration Garden
My Husband Next Door
And Then There Was You
Departure(s)
The New Neighbours
The Replacement (DS Liam Kilshaw, #2)
We Live Here Now
Dead of Winter
Don't Believe Her
One Day by David NichollsOn Chesil Beach by Ian McEwanWolf Hall by Hilary MantelSaturday by Ian McEwanMe Before You by Jojo Moyes
Contemporary British Novels
507 books — 389 voters

Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  RitzOne Dark Window by Rachel GilligThe Butcher of the Forest by Premee MohamedVictor's Blessing by Barbara SontheimerWicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan
Anything You Really Liked
2,584 books — 962 voters

Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie KinsellaBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingI've Got Your Number by Sophie KinsellaThe Undomestic Goddess by Sophie KinsellaConfessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
British Chick Lit
309 books — 361 voters

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Wuthering Heights
1984
Animal Farm
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
Sense and Sensibility
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)

Helene Hanff
I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said I'd go looking for the England of English Literature, and he nodded and said: 'It's there.' Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. Looking around the rug one thing's for sure: it's here. ...more
Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

Maureen Johnson
The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts...nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.
Maureen Johnson

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