Currently reading anything by a British writer? Showing 501-550 of 1,160

[Werner]

I've had Kim on my to-read shelf for ages. I hope I can get around to reading it sometime in the next couple of years!

[Oksana]

Maybe we can have Kim as our next read-together book?

[Werner]

Oksana, we can definitely put it in the poll next year, and it would get my vote!

[Oksana]

I read it maybe twenty five years ago in Russian. It will be fun to read it again.

[Rosemarie]

I just finished reading Kim as part of a brand new group, and I really enjoyed it.

[Melanie]

I've just started reading Stella Rimmington's https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breaking-Cov.... I really enjoy this series but haven't read them in sequence - they work well as stand-alone reads too.

[Rosemarie]

I read Rebecca not that long ago. Once you reach chapter 20 you will not want to stop reading the book.

[K.]

I'm new to the group. Been wanting to ask if anyone has ready anything by Sir Compton Mackenzie? Husband read Monarch of the Glen and loved it. We ordered Whisky Galore, and I thought about picking it up as soon as he is finished with it.

[Rosemarie]

I have read Compton Mackenzie's eight volume memoirs and a fair number of his novels. I like his sense of humor. Whisky Galore is a lot of fun.

[K.]

Sounds great. I've also read Rebecca. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks.

[Karen M]

Dear Bo Peep wrote: "I'm new to the group. Been wanting to ask if anyone has ready anything by Sir Compton Mackenzie? Husband read Monarch of the Glen and loved it. We ordered Whisky Galore, and I thought about picking..."

I've only read The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett which I gave 4 stars. Since the movie starred Katherine Hepburn I kept on picturing her as I read.

[Igor]

I am reading "Dawn" by H.R.Haggard. It's his first book with no South Africa in it yet. And not too much adventures and suspense. Anyone got that far?

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Rosemarie wrote: "I have read Compton Mackenzie's eight volume memoirs and a fair number of his novels. I like his sense of humor. Whisky Galore is a lot of fun."

I read Whisky Galore years ago & it was hilarious! (as I remember, the movie was even better)

I've just gone back about 40 posts.

I love Rebecca - a modern classic!

Elizabeth Goudge & Dorothy L Sayers are favourites of mine.

& I was gutted to not be able to get hold of Daughter of Time! That was my favourite Tey & one of my all time favourite books. I will say Tey is a hit or miss author for me.

[Rosemarie]

Two other funny Compton Mackenzie novels are Vestal Fires and Hunting the Fairies. He also wrote a very serious novel, called Thin Ice.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

& I forgot to mention what I came into this thread for. I have just finished The Blessing by Nancy Mitford. Anything I mention for this book will be a spoiler other than it is very witty. Not for people who don't like untranslated French expressions in their reading though!

@ Rosemarie - I'll keep an eye out for other Comptom Mackenzie's!

[Carol]

I have not read it, but I simply loved the film, Whiskey Galore!! I am reading H.E Bates right now, and he is amazing.

[Rosemarie]

I have read a lot of H.E. Bates. I love reading books about the country in England, such a different world from southen Ontario.

[Carol]

Rosemarie, I got the recommendation of H. E. Bates from you, and I am grateful. I have started with the series about that crazy family, it is hilarious. Now I cannot recall the name of the book as I write this.

[Rosemarie]

Carol, I am so glad you are enjoying them. Did you tell me about Edmund Crispin? I have just finished Holy Disorders. The books are witty with unusual mysteries and fun characters.

[Carol]

Rosemarie wrote: "Carol, I am so glad you are enjoying them. Did you tell me about Edmund Crispin? I have just finished Holy Disorders. The books are witty with unusual mysteries and fun characters."

Yes, I was the one who told you about them. Read The Moving Toyshop next. Let me know if you can find it.

[Rosemarie]

My library has very few Edmund Crispin books, but I am always on the lookout for the Moving Toyshop.

[Carol]

Can get it from used bookshop, online maybe, like Abe. It's worth it. Also, does your library do loaning with other libraries in other cities? Ours does that now, so I am not confined to just one. So many libraries have destroyed many good, older books.

[Rosemarie]

I am definitely on the quest for the book. Our local university is having four giant book sales in the next month.

[Lisa]

I just finished Affinity which was a great read. It's quite slow at the beginning, but hard to put down once it gathers momentum and the ending was a real twist. I am going back in time for my next one with a Jeffery Farnol swashbuckler.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Lisa wrote: "I just finished Affinity which was a great read. It's quite slow at the beginning, but hard to put down once it gathers momentum and the ending was a real twist. I am going back in ..."

I have loved the Jeffery Farnol's that I have read. So many books, so little time...

[Lisa]

What was your favourite Carol? I have to choose between Black Bartlemy's Treasure and Our Admirable Betty so far. :) I also have Great Britain at War but that's non-fiction.

[Oksana]

I started reading Kim today.

[Rosemarie]

I read Kim not that long ago and was surprised at how much I liked it. I had trying reading Stalky and Co.by Kipling and couldn't finish it. I really enjoyed reading Kim.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

The Amateur Gentleman I have Our Admirable Betty on my kindle,but haven't read it yet.

Edit - sorry I was replying to Lisa!

[Melanie]

I'm really enjoying Agent Zigzag. Ben Macintyre does it again - a highly entertaining non-fiction, this time about the British Double Agent, Eddie Chapman.

Here is the link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Agent-Zigzag...

[Oksana]

Rosemarie, have you read Kipling's The Light That Failed? I was given two pages from it to analyze on my exam. I liked it so much that I found this book after the exam and devoured it in two days.

[Rosemarie]

Oksana, I haven't read that book. What is it about? If it is anything like Kim, I will like it.

[Jane]

Just finished book two in a trilogy by a new British writer. HIGHLY recommended, even for those who are not really into the genre. One of my favourite books of recent years. Book one is called "Once Bitten, Twice Die", by Antony J. Stanton. It's a page-turning thriller set ina post-apocalyptic world. Give it a whirl...

Once Bitten, Twice Die

[Oksana]

Rosemarie, it is about an artist and war correspondent who comes back from the war and tries to make a living as an artist. However, his minor eye problem turns out to be a precursor to complete blindness. The extract I had to analyze for my exam was about the main character's visit to an optometrist. Kipling builds up the feeling of fear, and then panic so skillfully I had to reread it a couple of times. I don't think it is anything like Kim, it is one of Kipling's earlier novels and takes place in London.

[Rosemarie]

It sounds fascinating, Oksana. I will see if our library system has a copy.

[Lisa]

Carol ♛ Type, Oh Queen! ♛ wrote: "The Amateur Gentleman I have Our Admirable Betty on my kindle,but haven't read it yet.

Edit - sorry I was replying to Lisa!"

I will read that one first, then see if I can get the Amateur Gentleman if I enjoy it. Not far from us there is a pub which has a whole shelf load of Jeffery Farnol's. The landlord's father is a real fan. Sorry if I confused anyone. :D

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Lisa wrote: " Carol ♛ Type, Oh Queen! ♛ wrote: "The Amateur Gentleman I have Our Admirable Betty on my kindle,but haven't read it yet.

Edit - sorry I was replying to Lisa!"

I will read that on..."

No it was my mistake! :)

[Rosemarie]

Fair stood the wind for France is one of my favourite H.E. Bates' novels.

[Rosemarie]

Chips are French fries. I live in Canada, so we have both terms here, as in fish and chips. Potato chips are called potato crisps in England. We used to have the Marks and Spencers British stores here until the early 2000's. They had a wide variety of flavours of potato chips(crisps) and lots of other good treats.

[Rosemarie]

You're welcome.

[Rosemarie]

I have started reading The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin, and also The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. I will be reading Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope for another reading group, so it is going to be a very British October for me.

[Jane]

Flashman and the Mountain of Light, by George McDonald Frazer.

Just for the sheer lustful belly-laughing badness of Harry Flashman

[E.M.]

I love the Flashman books - totally Un-PC but in a way that shows the author is not un-PC...if that makes sense...

[Melanie]

I bought a hard copy whilst visiting Bletchley Park and have just finished Ben Macintyre's "Agent Zigzag" about the double agent, Eddie Chapman. It's a thoroughly entertaining and informative account of British and German espionage in WWII.

The next British author's work on my list is Stella Rimmington's "Breaking Cover" - I'm so looking forward to this!

[Katheryn]

Finished reading A History of Britain in 21 Women - five stars. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Carol]

Reading John Buchan's 39 Steps.

[Carol]

Hitchcock made a movie of it; the novel is very different. I started the second book in the series called Greenmantle Written in the time of WW I, I have been looking up the references to real people and learning about this time period. What is scary is all the problems of today's world were very similar in 1915. Especially stuff related to the mideast.

[Rosemarie]

I read the 39 Steps and agree that it is very different from the movie.
One of the larger Toronto theatre companies, called Soulpepper, put on a comedic version of the 39 Steps, with only 4 actors, and treated it as a music hall comedy. It was really funny, and had some similarities with the book, i.e. the main character and the spy plot, but the ending did not take place by the sea, for logistical reasons.

[Karen M]

Carol wrote: "Reading John Buchan's 39 Steps."

I hope you enjoy it. I've read the first three (three was not quite as good as the first two) but for some reason I still haven't gotten around to reading the last two in the series. Bad habit of starting too many series.

[Carol]

Hi Carol from Carol -- Besides Buchan, I am also reading Graham Greene's books. Right now it is Minstry of Fear, and also got the movie out of the library. My problem is I read too many books at the same time and then I don't remember all the characters. Even though it is not New Year, I have tried to make a resolution just to read one book at a time, finish it, and go on to another. But I find I get in different moods for various books. I read a lot of non-fiction too. Recently I was in Yosemite so I want to read a biography of John Muir. I think I need a 12 step program for this.