I have a slight obsession with British authors ? Tell me your fav’s!
I have a slight obsession with British authors ?
Tell me your fav’s!
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I have a slight obsession with British authors ?
Tell me your fav’s!
Jane Gardham! Just fantastic!
I enjoy Jane Green, Hannah Ellis & Dorothy Koomson to name some
Jane Green is hilarious!
Kate Atkinson God in Ruins and Life After Life
Erica James, Joanna Trollope
Graham Greene
Jeffrey Archer is my fav.
Kerry Fisher
Have any of you read Nick Spalding? None of the libraries around me carry his books. I discovered him while perusing through goodreads. I’ve never read him but want to. I may have to get on my kindle I don’t use lol
@Auni I read Bricking it and didn’t like it. Very predictable and what is supposed to be hilarious is not funny at all. Maybe others of his books are better?
Roseamunde Pilcher!
Jacqueline Winspear
Sophie Kinsella, Annie Sanders
Jacqueline Winspear
Elizabeth George
@Carolyn Elizabeth George was born in the USA but you wouldn’t think it because she writes so well about British life.
@Rita, oops!
@Carolyn
Gil McNeil
Jeffrey Archer
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dame Agatha Christie
Stephen Booth, Nicci French.
Kathryn Hughes, The key, The letter, the secret. All fantastic
Er… me? LOL
Michael Robotham
Marsha Willet, Joanna Trollope, Rosamund Pilcher, Maeve Binchy…
Barbara Taylor Bradford, Ken Follett
Daphne Du Maurier Ken Follett Kate Morton
LOVE KEN FOLLETT!!!!!
Jotting these down, thanks ladies.
Ken Follett
Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir, Elizabeth Fremantle.
Ken Follett, Alison Weir
Peter Robinson, Peter Lovesey, Deborah Crombie, Elizabeth George, Jacqueline Winspear
Mark Billingham, Reginald Hill, Kate Atkinson, Tana French, Fiona Baron, Ruth Rendell, Peter Lovesy, Peter Robinson, Elizbeth Haynes, Denise Mina, many others. I could go on and on.
Elly Griffiths, Peter Robinson, Rhys Bowen (I think she’s British)
Who wrote the Shetland books, Ann Cleeves I think.
I love Penny Vincenzi, and was very sad when she passed away. I have her last book published on my shelf, but can’t bring myself to read it knowing I won’t ever have a new book from her. Will have to read them all over again someday.
sounds good – who would you recommend
@Donna I love Jane green, dorothy koomson & hannah ellis
thanks
Helen Durrant and I’ve just discovered David Pearson
Alexander McCall Smith
Angela Carter
Jilly Cooper
Sophie Kinsella, Santa Montefiore
Kathleen Tessaro (American expat)
Doris Lessing
Peter Robinson
Lessin, Evelyn Waugh (a guy), Graham Green, W. Somerset Maughm, Martin and Kingsley Amis, Iris Murdoch and especially George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. So many more.
Philippa Gregory
Love her.
Agatha Christie
Jeffrey Archer
I love a lot of them, but Ellis Peters is the first one that springs to mind.
Love all the historical fiction coming out, but for British authors, none will ever compare to PG Wodehouse.
Kate Morton
Kate Atkinson’s book Life After Life.
@Debbie love that book!
@Debbie All of her books are wonderful. Have you read her Jackson Brodie series? Great books!
In no particular order…Dorothy Dunnett, Evelyn Anthony, Margaret Campbell Barnes, D. E. Stevenson, George MacDonald Fraser, Graham Hancock, Rosamund Pilcher, Josephine Tey, Elizabeth Goudge, Rumer Godden, Noel Coward, Nevill Shute, Mary Stewart, Jack Whyte, Patrick Taylor
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Agatha Christie, Jeffrey Archer
Edward St. Aubyn (Lost for Words is hilarious and very British).
Penny Vincenzi
Shakespeare.
P.D. James, Rosamunde Pilcher
I have a penchant for mysteries so for me Ian Rankin and Val McDermid are definite favs. However, I also love Kazuo Ishiguro.
Too many to list them all but just a few: Kate Atkinson, Hilary mantel, C J Samson, Patrick O’Brien, Elizabeth Gaskill.
W. Somerset Maugham
PG Wodehouse
Awesome ladies, I knew you wouldn’t disappoint ?
KATIE FFORDE!
Nick Hornby
Joanna Trollope. Her descriptions of places, in particular villages in countryside England, will make you want to live there. And her characters are so humans that they reflect feelings and situations that in a way or another we have experienced.
Following
Lucinda Riley, Cecelia Ahern
Martina Cole
Clive Barker, Charles Dickens, george Eliot
Mine is american authors .
Stephen Fry , Tom Sharpe definitely worth a try
Neil Gaiman
Emily Bronte defo. But I also love Helen Fielding ( Bridget Jones’ Diary) and Sue Townsend ( Adrian Mole). They are hilarious. Or maybe I just love the British sense of humour.
Dorothy Sayers….and Ngaio Marsh…although Ngaio wasnt British
Ruth Ware is awesome!
Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Tolkien
Kate Morton
Dickens
Kate Atkinson
Peter May. Although I think he’s Scottish but close enough
I finished “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson. Loved the rich descriptions of the English countryside and LAUGHED OUT LOUD at her great humor. Worth a try for jolly ole English writing!
Martin Amis and Graham Greene. Both amazing.
I’m reading Josephine Cox at the moment, but also like Katie Flynn and Nadine Dorries.
Georgette Heyer, Rhys Bowen, Kate Morton
Katie Fford. Is Nora Roberts British?
Used to love Barbara Taylor Bradford. Not anymore ?
Jane Austen Thomas Hardy are great
Honestly, I can give you several authors, I am in Brit Lit 2 right now. If you wanna see the index of my Brit Lit 1 or 2 book, I can do that for you ?
Many of those you mentioned are American, but I love Victorian literature, esp. Gaskell, Hardy, the Bronte sisters, then Heyer, Christie and some more.
Dick Francis books are great. Mysteries always around jockey and horse themes. Easy reads.
M J Aldridge, love him!
P. D. James
I’m finally getting a moment to write these down. Thanks again ladies for recommending ?
@Monica 🙂