3.63 avg rating — 16,274 ratings

"Burma. Warring chieftains and duplicitous imperial powers (and individuals) struggle for dominance of upper Burma. Intrigue, journey and discovery set in the late 1880s."

3.62 avg rating — 29 ratings

"Egypt. A portrait of Egypt at the close of the monarchy and the British Empire on the eve of WWII. Features a love triangle between a young King Farouk, the British High Commissioner, and a British woman beguiling both."

3.30 avg rating — 291 ratings

"Africa/Burma. Set 1944 WWII. A renegade British army officer organizes quick-strike units of black African soldiers to drive the Japanese from the Burmese jungles. (Novel previously published as "Burma Boy".)"

3.33 avg rating — 255 ratings

"India. A re-creation of the lives of English aristocracy in 1836 India, just prior to the reign of Queen Victoria. Loosely based on the real lives of Henry Oliphant, Governor-General, and his sisters who went to India in 1836 to serve the British Empire."

3.81 avg rating — 432 ratings

"Singapore. Coming-of-age story of a young Chinese boy raised with enthusiastically pro-British parents. Set 1942 Singapore-during the demise of Britain’s great dreams of empire."

3.83 avg rating — 447 ratings

"China. Adventure/romance set against the historical background of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900s China. Details the martyrdoms and heroisms involved in the European experience of the Rebellion."

3.67 avg rating — 85,750 ratings

"India. Classic novel of society in colonial India under the 1920s British Raj depicting the clash between East and West, ruler and ruled, and of the prejudices and misunderstandings that foredoomed the Raj."

3.99 avg rating — 929 ratings

"Malaya. Trilogy describing the expatriate colonial experience of Malaya."

4.37 avg rating — 130 ratings

"Africa. Epic story of the life of British explorer, H.M.Stanley. Features his last dangerous mission into the African interior to rescue the Emin Pasha, the only man holding back the "enemy" in the outreaches of the British Empire."

4.15 avg rating — 163 ratings

"Hong Kong/China. First of the "China Coast" trilogy. "The definitive account of the British presence in Asia". Series begins with a young Englishman's arrival in 1903 Shanghai, and continues through 1984 as the British and Chinese negotiate the fate of Hong Kong."

4.49 avg rating — 1,049 ratings

"India. Historical tour-de-force. Set in 1940's India in the years leading up to independence from British sovereignty. (See also Scott's "Six Days in Marapore" about British expatriates at the time of Indian Independence.)"

3.92 avg rating — 5,243 ratings

"Sudan. The story a young man accused of cowardice and his path to redemption during the British army's Gordon Relief Expedition (late 1884 to early 1885)."

3.63 avg rating — 215 ratings

"Hong Kong. Story of Sino-British conflict that led to the Opium Wars and establishment of Hong Kong as a British colonial city port in the 19th century."

3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings

"South Africa. A vivid story of the First Boer War (aka South African War aka Anglo-Boer War) set in the Transvaal in 1880. A thread of romance runs throughout the tale."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 97 ratings

"South Africa. A vivid story of the Second Boer War set in the Transvaal in 1899."

4.31 avg rating — 58,875 ratings

"Hong Kong/China. The story of a group of European and American traders as they take over the island of Hong Kong after the Opium Wars in the early 1800s. The story centers on the Tai-pan of a powerful British trading company as he manipulates the colonization of the foreign island."

3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings

"Canada/Australia. A Canadian historical adventure novel of the 1837 Mackenzie Rebellion and its brutal aftermath in the Australian penal colonies."

4.14 avg rating — 78 ratings

"America. American War of Independance(Revolutionary War) as experienced by a a Boston family. "Divided by loyalty to the King of England and the idea of democracy, the Van Buskirk family struggles from the Boston Tea Party to the Battle of Yorktown to preserve a way of life or forge a new nation.""

3.70 avg rating — 1,811 ratings

"India. Collection of short stories portraying aspects of British life in India at the peak of the Raj in late 19th century. Most set at the English summer "resort" Hill Stations in Himilayan Simla."

3.83 avg rating — 5,962 ratings

"Ireland. In the midst of the political upheaval during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921), the last days of the British occupation are viewed by a British Major from a decaying hotel in Kilnalough."

4.08 avg rating — 4,037 ratings

"Ireland. Story of the the Irish fight for freedom-inspired by poets and schoolteachers, fueled by a desperate desire for independence, and played out in the historic streets of Dublin against the background of WWI."

4.47 avg rating — 5,064 ratings

"Egypt. Epic trilogy of colonial Egypt in the 19th and 20th centuries. The trilogy follows the life of a tyrannical Egyptian patriarch and his traditional family across three generations, from 1919 (the Egyptian Revolution against the British colonizers) to the end of WWII in 1944."

3.36 avg rating — 406 ratings

"Asia/Afghanistan. Novel set in 1830s as the British advance into Afghanistan entangled in the "Great Game" (strategic rivalry between the British and Russian Empires for supremacy of Central Asia)."

4.28 avg rating — 507 ratings

"America. The American Revolution from a Loyalist's (colonists who supported the British monarchy) perspective, from the Siege of Boston to the United Empire Loyalists. 1775-1783."

3.92 avg rating — 378 ratings

"India. Graphic tale of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. A rather unsympathetic view of British Imperialism."

3.75 avg rating — 136 ratings

"Africa. "About a leader of the Maasai and a British administrator in East Africa in 1911, after the British break the promise made seven years earlier to allow the Maasai to retain control over their traditional lands." (HistoricalNovel.Info)"

4.10 avg rating — 937 ratings

"Ireland. The story of the 1916 Easter Rising which triggered the overthrow of seven centuries of British rule in Ireland. (See also "Supply of Heroes" by James Carroll re: Ireland and England during WWI, the Easter Rebellion and the complex Anglo-Irish feud between the peoples of these two countries.)"

3.40 avg rating — 167 ratings

"Australia. Set in a remote British penal colony in the South Pacific late in the 1790s. Features sun-parched settlements, exploits of hungry transports/prisoners, and corrupted soldiers."

3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings

"New Zealand. Set 1840s to 1860’s colonial New Zealand. Features the conflits (battles and skirmishes) between the indigenous Maori, the British army and colonists determined to rid the Maori of their heritage and rights."

3.56 avg rating — 386 ratings

"South Africa. Victorian military adventure set in the 1879 Anglo-Zulu Wars in South Africa. Features the Battle of Rorke's Drift. (See also Gary Kilworth's colonial military adventure "Fancy Jack" Crossman series.)"

4.02 avg rating — 5,903 ratings

"Australia/New South Wales. Epic of 18th-century England's colonization of Australia. Much of the novel is set in the penal colony on Norfolk Island. Features the life of an English prisoner who is deported on a slave ship of the "First Fleet" bound for New South Wales to establish a colony."

3.61 avg rating — 172 ratings

"Malaya. Portrayal the final years of the British rule in Malaya in the late 1940s and 50s."

4.12 avg rating — 6,806 ratings

"Sudan/Egypt. Features and episode from the fierce and bloody rebellion of the Holy War lead by Mahdist-the siege of the British garrison at Khartoum (1884-85)."

3.52 avg rating — 2,427 ratings

"Ukraine/Crimea. Deals with the British experience of the 1854-1856 Crimean War through the adventures of the eponymous central character an English surgeon, who volunteers to work on the battlefields."

3.93 avg rating — 2,420 ratings

"Singapore. Life "as usual" in 1939 British colonized Singapore on the eve of the Japanese invasion, cusp of WWII, and rift of the British colonial empire."

3.68 avg rating — 214 ratings

"Nigeria/Africa. Commissioner Sanders is called upon by the British Government to keep a watchful eye upon some quarter of a million cannibal folk along a stretch of river in deepest, darkest Nigeria. Part of a series of short stories."

3.85 avg rating — 1,583 ratings

"India. Set during the 1857 Revolt. About a British family who takes help from Hindus and Muslims to reach their relatives when their father is killed in a church by the Indian rebels."

4.23 avg rating — 10,347 ratings

"America. Story of the events leading up to the American Revolution. "

4.08 avg rating — 109 ratings

"Australia. Story concerning the England's colonization of Australia in the 18th century."

4.18 avg rating — 19,253 ratings

"various locales. First of the "Hornblower" nautical series which chronicles the adventures of an Officer in the England's Royal Navy."

3.88 avg rating — 469 ratings

"India. Romance set amidst the turbulence of the British withdrawal from India."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 338 ratings

"India. About the Thuggee movement in India during British imperial rule."

3.75 avg rating — 122 ratings

"India. Story of the armed uprisings against the British East India Company of 1857 (Indian Mutiny)."

4.05 avg rating — 15,933 ratings

"various land-based locales. First in the "Flashman Papers" series which features the British Empire between 1839 and 1891, from the eyes of the rogue, soldier, cheat, and coward of the British Army."

3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings

"Ireland/India. This novel follows the ascent of an Irishman as he travels from a penniless peasant to a Rajah who has carved out for himself a kingdom for himself in India. It is based on the true life story of George Thomas 1756?-1802 who was a highly regarded military leader who fought against the British Army until his capture and death in 1802." (The British Empire library)"

4.01 avg rating — 115 ratings

"Singapore. A shell-shocked WWI Vet enters the insular British colony, meets a licentious female novelist and familial upheaval ensues."

4.19 avg rating — 120 ratings

"Crimea/Ukraine/India. "A daredevil young soldier and a tender/tough camp-following girl find love and the Answer to Life's Miseries in one another, during a 6,000-mile military trek from India to the siege of Scbastopol during the Crimean War (a trek based on a real event)." (Kirkus Review)"

3.79 avg rating — 641 ratings

"India. 1838. A high-spirited young English woman has been sent to India to find a suitable husband. Traveling as a translator, she joins the entourage of Lord Auckland, the British Governor-General, as he journeys across India with an army ten thousand strong to meet the fabled Ranjit Singh, Maharajah of the Punjab. (First book of the "Paradise" trilogy.)"

3.29 avg rating — 17 ratings

"Guiana. 1950s. Story of the the struggle for autonomy of both a young woman and a repressed country with the with the death of the death of the British plantation system."

3.23 avg rating — 1,375 ratings

"Hong Kong. In the last year of British rule in Hong Kong, a mother and fear the impending "Take Away". Then a mysterious Mr. Hung from the mainland offers them a large sum for their family business..."

4.28 avg rating — 18,525 ratings

"Malaysia. A coming-of-age story steeped with Chinese culture, British imperialism, and the Japanese occupation of WWII."

2.96 avg rating — 153 ratings

"Hong Kong/South China/India. The complex effects of the Eastern opium trade on three generations of an embattled Anglo-Indian “family”—all painstakingly traced. (Kirkus Review)"

3.98 avg rating — 29,774 ratings

"India. Dramatization of "two great economic themes of the 19th century: the cultivation of opium as a cash crop in Bengal and Bihar for the Chinese market, and the transport of Indian indentured workers to cut sugar canes for the British on such islands as Mauritius, Fiji and Trinidad." (The Guardian) First of the "Ibis" trilogy."

3.38 avg rating — 164 ratings

"India/England. The story of three generations of a family, and takes the reader on a journey through India, Britain, America, and back to India."

3.45 avg rating — 3,699 ratings

"Ireland. Features a young woman's coming-of-age set on a plantation of Anglo-Irish gentry amidst the background of Ireland's "Troubles" (War of Independence)."

3.59 avg rating — 106,623 ratings

"Jamaica/Dominica. Story of Antoinette Cosway-a white Creole heiress, from the time of her youth in the Caribbean to her unhappy marriage and relocation to England. Also a "damning history of colonialism in the Caribbean"."

4.04 avg rating — 22,908 ratings

"Africa (Rhodesia aka Zimbabwe). A semi-autobiographical coming of age story about a young woman in modern Africa. A depiction of colonial domination from the perspective of a young girl.

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3.61 avg rating — 1,072 ratings

"Africa. Story of a young Scot relocating to help in a general store on the African veld. He becomes aware of an imminent uprising by thousands of native Africans. Adventures ensue."

3.09 avg rating — 519 ratings

"India/Burma. "The quiet brahmin girl from Bengal becomes a passionate resister of foreign rule, against the British Raj. The narrator discovers her ancestor's struggle for her land, whilst seeking to establish herself as an American citizen." Features British-Indian relations during India's period of colonization."

3.69 avg rating — 13,116 ratings

"Afghanistan. Novella about two deserters from the British Army ("adventurers") discover a hidden kingdom in the mountains and pretend to be gods to control (and rob) the natives."

3.92 avg rating — 4,544 ratings

"Africa. The story focuses on the battle fought in East Africa between British and German forces during World War I, and how it affects several individual people whose paths will eventually converge. "As millions are slaughtered on the Western Front, a ridiculous and little-reported campaign is being waged in East Africa - a war they continued after the Armistice because no one told them to stop.""

3.81 avg rating — 2,174 ratings

"Hong Kong. It tells the stories of three immigrants to the island—a brash young Englishwoman who has recently arrived, an elderly English hotel-keeper who came in the 1930s; a young Chinese man who came as a child refugee from mainland China."

3.67 avg rating — 442 ratings

"India. "Mourning the death of her fiance, exhausted by all the suffering caused by World War I, young Isabel Herbert marries in haste and leaves her beloved Wales for India with her new husband, career military man Sergeant Neville Webb. It is 1920. The British Raj is on the wane." "A young English woman in search of herself and in flight from the ravages of the Great War, is thrust headlong into a passionate and dangerous liaison with an Indian doctor and a graduate of Oxford University who insists, against all odds, on the right to be both black and British.""

3.71 avg rating — 813 ratings

"India. Story of the last 50 years of the British Raj through the eyes of an Indian princess of a small, remote and conservative kingdom."

4.15 avg rating — 11,289 ratings

"England/Australia (Tazmania). The story starts in London in the early 19th century. Mary (who morphs through serving girl, prostitute, high-class madam, prisoner transported to Tasmania, to successful business woman) and Ikey (crafty crook) start working together as business partners. They are separately sent to the penal colongy at Tasmania whence their lives re-invent again. First book of the "Australian" trilogy. "

3.96 avg rating — 3,123 ratings

"Australia (Tazmania). "The story follows the fortunes of Rufus Dawes, a young man transported (to Port Arthur penal colony) for a murder that he did not commit. A novelisation of life as a convict in early Australian history.""

4.38 avg rating — 5,592 ratings

"Crimea/Ukraine. A period montage of the Charge and Crimea. "Flashman at the Charge" begins with Flashman trying to avoid a transfer to the Crimea but failing miserably. He is made guardian of one of Queen Victoria's cousins and is sent to the midst of the Crimean War. Flashman witnesses and participates in the most notable offensive and defensive actions of that war, and eventually finds himself trekking across Asia in an effort to save the British Raj." (Wikipedia). Part of the "Flashman Papers" satirical series featuring the militlary exploits within the British Empire of an illustrious Victorian soldier in the 19th century. "

3.69 avg rating — 136 ratings

"Afghanistan. A "William Gale knows nothing of his origins. Apprenticed at 15 to the owner of a fishing smack, he survives shipwrecks and attacks by Malay pirates, finally reaching Calcutta, where he joins up with a British regiment on its way to Afghanistan. His resourcefulness and bravery under fire enable him to survive capture and imprisonment, ambush and attack. He ends up being recommended for the Victoria Cross as a result of his heroics, in defense of a convoy of wounded; and he makes unexpected gains as a result of rescuing Col. Ripon from the assault of three Afghans in the streets of Candahar." Book aka "For Name and Fame"."

3.78 avg rating — 115 ratings

"Burma. YA adventure story. "Stanley was in difficult straits. Finding himself a P.O.W during the Burmese/British war was just the start of his adventures. He was also hunted by Burmese officials across the countryside, falls in with a band of renegades, rejoins the British, leads a daring rescue, was besieged in ancient temple ruins, and ultimately returns to England." His escape and ultimate successful return to England show what a clear head with pluck can do. "

3.80 avg rating — 182 ratings

"New Zealand. "In the year 1870, the Renshaws emigrate to New Zealand during the period of the war with the natives. Wilfrid, a strong, self-reliant, courageous lad, is the mainstay of the household." Story of his adventures among the Maori and the Hwa Rebellion."

3.70 avg rating — 5,859 ratings

"Van Dieman Land (Tasmania)/Australia. " tapestry of nineteenth-century Australia, a world of convicts and colonists, thieves and catamites." "

3.81 avg rating — 25,184 ratings

"Australia. "About an early 19th century Englishman transported to Australia for theft. The story explores what may have happened when Europeans colonised land already inhabited by Aboriginal people." (Wikipedia)"

3.96 avg rating — 242 ratings

"Ireland/Bermuda/Australia. Set mid-19th centure. An Irish landed-gentry and leader within the revolutionary Young Ireland group is convicted of political treason and sentenced to traport to England's penal colony in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). Presented in journal form."

4.07 avg rating — 7,583 ratings

"Australia. Narrated by 20 different characters and tells the story of a voyage to look for the Garden of Eden in Tasmania and the rapid decline of that island’s indigenous population of Tasmanian Aborigines" with British colonization. (Wikipedia)"

3.31 avg rating — 62 ratings

"Belgian Congo/Africa. An Englishman is on trial for the murder of a native child in late 19th century. "

4.18 avg rating — 82 ratings

"Afghanistan/India. Military adventure set on the tribal Afghan frontier. Featuring the British-Afghan War of 1919."

4.20 avg rating — 45,079 ratings

"India. "An epic novel of British-Indian history, which tells the story of an English officer during the Great Game. Features romance, politics (Raj, Great Game), war, intrigue, and more romance!"

3.87 avg rating — 558 ratings

"Ceylon (Sri Lanka). "Tale of native life in a colonial outpost from the point of view of the colonised." Features a native hunter, his 2 daughters and a series of events in a rural jungle."

4.09 avg rating — 1,120 ratings

"India. A "dramatic chronicle of the first half-century of Indias modern history." Features a peasant's son who grows up smitten by the dazzle of the Raj. He fights for King and Crown in WWI, is imprisoned for pro-Muslim (and anti-British) politics, and suffers again a sort of "imprisonment" with the Partition due to his caste and his loyalties."

4.21 avg rating — 1,561 ratings

"Singapore/Malay. "Against all the unwritten canons of Singapore life (and East versus Western cultures), a wealthy British man falls in love with the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family." Set pre, during, and after WWII."

3.40 avg rating — 1,617 ratings

"Cyprus. A British major and wife are transferred to Cyprus to defend the colony against violent uprising. Military and imperial obligations clash with morals. Marriage and meaning disintegrate."

3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings

"Africa. The suppression by the British of a tribal rebellion in 1896 Rhodesia. "A splendidly nuanced story of four late Victorians trying to live with honor amid conflicting moral imperatives in British Colonial Africa" (Kirkus Reviews)"

4.31 avg rating — 649 ratings

"Kenya/Africa. Based on events that took place in British colonial Kenya during the violent Mau Mau Rebellion of the 1950s (afterwhich independence was achieved). Written mostly from the perspective of the English white men who own farms and use native Kenyan labor. "

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28,036 ratings

"Burma (India and Malaya). "Story of the mingled fates of three families and three countries--Burma, India, and Malaya, from 1885 through the mid-1990s. "

3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings

"Cyprus/Greece. 1958. "Cyprus is in turmoil, Greek Cypriots are fighting Turkish Cypriots and they are both struggling for independence from the British." A British Army officer is involved in adventure, intrigue, romance, and patriotism."

3.90 avg rating — 39 ratings

"Crimea/Ukraine. Features military action with the Royal Hampshire Fusiliers."

3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings

"Egypt. A novelisation of the 1884 events surrounding British General Gordon and his relief, or lack thereof, whilst attempting to hold back theforces of the Mahdist Sudanese army."

3.55 avg rating — 961 ratings

"Barbados/West Indies. Describes the beginnings of the English colonists' struggle for freedom, and origins of slavery in the Caribbean in 1640.
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2.48 avg rating — 167 ratings

"Canada. A story of late 19th century politics (a young lawyer becomes an advocate of imperial preferential trade with a vision of a rejuvenated British Empire) and romance."

4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings

"Africa. A South African fighting for the British in WWI experiences much suffering and conflict."

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings

"(East)Africa. Young adult adventure story of the emigration to the "greatest provinces of the British African Empire"."

3.80 avg rating — 11,370 ratings

"Jamaican early 1800's. A fictional memoir narrated by a an octogenarian Jamaican woman, who was once a slave on a sugar Plantation. Features the Baptist War of 1831, and the subsequent emancipation of Jamaica’s slaves"

3.52 avg rating — 130 ratings

"South Africa 1889-1902. A Canadian cowboy is enlisted to the British war on the Dutch Boers in Africa in a "last gasp of Victorian British imperialism.""

3.57 avg rating — 134 ratings

"Africa/West Coast. Features trouble between the natives and British citizens who have exerted dominion for 100 years in this piece of the Empire."

4.28 avg rating — 217 ratings

"Indonesia. Set 1600s. Features battle between the all-powerful Dutch East India Company and a small band of ragtag British adventurers for dominion of the lucrative nutmeg trade."

4.26 avg rating — 227 ratings

"India. Set during the British Raj. Novella story of a young British boy's upbringing by his Ayah; told in the voices of both the boy and the Ayah."

3.56 avg rating — 99 ratings

"India (featuring the Koh-i-Noor diamond)"

3.73 avg rating — 1,232 ratings

"Malaya and Singapore"

3.51 avg rating — 45 ratings

3.29 avg rating — 167 ratings