British novels

Marabou Stork Nightmares is a 1995 novel by Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Maurice is a novel by E. M. Forster. A tale of homosexual love in early 20th century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays, through university and beyond. It was written from 1913 onwards. Although shown to selected friends, such as Christopher Isherwood, it was only published in 1971 after Forster's death. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maurice (novel)"

Middlemarch is a novel by George Eliot, a pseudonym for the female author Mary Ann Evans. It was first published in 1871. It is set in the 1830s in Middlemarch, a fictional provincial town in England, based upon Coventry. Widely seen as Eliot's greatest work, it is almost unanimously acclaimed as one of the great Victorian era novels. ...more on Wikipedia about "Middlemarch"

Midnight Runner is a novel by Jack Higgins. ...more on Wikipedia about "Midnight Runner"

Midnight's Children (ISBN 039451470X) is a 1980 novel by Salman Rushdie. It centers on the author's native India and was acclaimed as a major milestone in Indian writing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Midnight's Children"

Mrs Craddock ( 1902), set in the final years of the 19th century, is a novel by William Somerset Maugham about a young and attractive woman of independent means who marries beneath her. As he had written about a subject that was considered daring at the time, Maugham had some difficulty finding a publisher. Completed in 1900, the novel was eventually published in 1902 by William Heinemann, but only on the condition that the author took out passages which, according to Heinemann, might have offended the readers. A successful and popular book, Mrs Craddock was reissued in 1903 and again in 1908. In 1938 the first non- Bowdlerized version, stylistically improved by Maugham, came out. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mrs Craddock"

My Name Is Legion is a novel by A. N. Wilson first published in 2004. Set in London in the first years of the 21st century, the book revolves around two main topics: Britain's gutter press and Christian religion. On the one hand, the novel satirizes the detrimental influence yellow journalism can have on individuals, society and politics both domestic and international. On the other hand, My Name Is Legion discusses the role of the churches in contemporary civil society, of faith in a secularized world, and of evil as an undeniable force in our lives—why it exists (leading to the theological question of theodicy) and what believers can actively do to make the world a better place to live in. ...more on Wikipedia about "My Name Is Legion (novel)"

Natalie Natalia is a novel by Nicholas Mosley first published in 1971 about a middle-aged British MP who, while seemingly on the brink of insanity, conducts an adulterous affair with the wife of a colleague. ...more on Wikipedia about "Natalie Natalia"

No Highway is a 1948 novel by Nevil Shute, later forming the basis of a 1951 motion picture. As a story, it is one of Shute's finer examples, along with A Town Like Alice, What Happened to the Corbetts and Round the Bend. It was required reading on many 1950s school curricula, and contains many of the ingredients that made Shute popular as a novelist, including an element of the supernatural. ...more on Wikipedia about "No Highway"

The Fantasy/ Science Fiction novel No Present Like Time (2005) by Steph Swainston is the sequel to the critically acclaimed The Year of Our War (2004). ...more on Wikipedia about "No Present Like Time"

Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According to Cassandra Austen's Memorandum, Susan (as it was first called) was written about the years 1798-1799. ...more on Wikipedia about "Northanger Abbey"

Of Human Bondage ( 1915) is a novel by William Somerset Maugham. ...more on Wikipedia about "Of Human Bondage"

Oh My Darling Daughter is a humorous coming-of-age novel by Eric Malpass first published in 1970. Set in the fictitious Derbyshire village of Shepherd's Delight during Harold Wilson's first term as Prime Minister ( 1964- 1970), Oh My Darling Daughter is about the Kembles, a well-to-do, conservative and church-going family of five, and in particular about Viola, the eponymous daughter of the house who, at 17, suddenly finds herself in a position of having to care for the rest of the family when her mother Clementine walks out on them after a row with her husband. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oh My Darling Daughter"

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a novel by Jeanette Winterson published in 1985, subsequently made into a BBC television serial starring Charlotte Coleman. It is about a lesbian girl who grows up in an extremely religious community. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"

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Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, first published in 1740. It tells in the first person the story of the virtuous lady's maid Pamela and the modest and agonized delicacy, yet determination, with which she rebuffs and reforms her aristocratic would-be seducer Mr B and is rewarded with marriage to him. Told through Pamela's probingly introspective letters and diary, Pamela is widely considered a seminal influence on the direction the novel form was to take towards psychological analysis and self-examination. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pamela"

Persuasion is the last completed novel Jane Austen wrote, and was first published posthumously, in 1818. Jane Austen began her last book soon after she had finished Emma, and completed it in August, 1816. Persuasion is connected with Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together two years later, and are still so issued, but in the circumstance that in both stories the scene is laid partly in Bath, a health resort with which Jane Austen was well acquainted, as having been her place of residence from the year 1801 till 1805. The title refers to the persuasion to which the heroine, Anne Elliot, has given in, to her later regret. The title of the novel was not chosen by Austen and some critics believe she was to name it "The Elliots". ...more on Wikipedia about "Persuasion (novel)"

Pied Piper is a novel by Nevil Shute, first published in 1942. The title is a reference to the traditional German folk tale, " The Pied Piper of Hamelin". ...more on Wikipedia about "Pied Piper (1942 novel)"

Point Counter Point, published in 1928, was Aldous Huxley's fourth novel. It is highly regarded: the Modern Library lists it in the top 100 novels of the 20th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Point Counter Point"

Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature—"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797, and was initially called First Impressions, but was never published under that title. In 1811 and following it was revised, it was published on 28 January 1813 by the same Mr. Egerton of the Military Library, Whitehall, who had brought out Sense and Sensibility. Like both its predecessor and Northanger Abbey, it was written at Steventon Rectory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pride and Prejudice"

Red Dog is a short novel by Louis de Bernières charting the life of a popular dog in south west Australia. Despite its short and apparently trivial nature, the book is in fact deeply moving for its portrayal of the special relationship between man and dog. ...more on Wikipedia about "Red Dog (novel)"

Redgauntlet is an historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Scotland in the 1760s in Dumfries. It was published in 1824. ...more on Wikipedia about "Redgauntlet" shortopedia - Go in quickly.

Rupert of Hentzau is a sequel by Anthony Hope to The Prisoner of Zenda, written in 1895 but not published until 1898. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rupert of Hentzau"

Scandal, or Priscilla's Kindness is a satirical novel by A. N. Wilson first published in 1983 about a British politician's rise and fall, the latter over a relationship with a prostitute. Although the title is the same and there are similarities in the subject-matter, Wilson's book is not the literary basis of the 1989 film Scandal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Scandal (novel)"

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen that was first published in 1811. It was the first of Austen's novels to be published, under the pseudonym "A Lady". ...more on Wikipedia about "Sense and Sensibility"

Shalimar the Clown is a novel written by Salman Rushdie, an author perhaps most famous for his previous work, The Satanic Verses. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shalimar the Clown"

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