Books from United Kingdom
451 popular british books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from United Kingdom.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is unquestionably the most famous dystopian novel of all times. Written in the year of 1948, the author swapped the last two digits while describing a future totalitarian society where the minds, attitudes and actions of the subjects are thoroughly scrutinized by the "Thought Police", suspected dissidents tracked down and where the worship of the mythical party leader Big Brother is forced upon the masses. The low-ranking party member Winston Smith begins secretly to question the whole system and initiates a forbidden love affair with another party member.
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Niños muertos by Martin Amis ES
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Construida utilizando la siempre fascinante estructura de la reunión de personajes en un lugar aislado, que tiene precursores tan ilustres y diversos como el Marqués de Sade o Agatha Christie, Niños muertos es un esperpéntico, sangriento y muy divertido ajuste de cuentas del autor con la cultura del placer inmediato, del sexo, las drogas y la fama instantáneos.
Los habitantes de la rectoría de Appleseed -el rubio y elegante Quentin y su esposa Celia, ambos de muy buena familia, la bella e inteligente Diana, el bufonesco Keith, el ansioso y rico Giles-... continue
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No Matter What : An Adoptive Family's Story of Hope, Love and Healing by Sally Donovan EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
[This book] tells the ... story of an ordinary couple who build an extraordinary family - describing Sally and Rob's journey from a diagnosis of infertility to their decision to adopt two children who suffered abuse in their early lives. ..."--Back cover.
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No Ordinary Girl by Cheryl Elaine EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
What started out as a night of celebration for Aimee soon turned into a nightmare. Snatched by cruel, sadistic monsters - the worst creatures mankind has ever produced - she's thrown into a metal container, among other victims too frightened to make a single sound. The game-keepers force everyone to play. They deliver torment and pain in equal measure. Every hunter has their own agenda and reasons to maim and torture.Detective Johnson is one step away from catching the killers. Wrestling with his instincts as a father to serve justice his own way, this is no ordinary case for him. Can he stop ... continue
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None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast. Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time ou... continue
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Nordische Mythen und Sagen by Neil Gaiman EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
The great Norse myths, which have inspired so much of modern fiction, are dazzlingly retold by Neil Gaiman. Tales of dwarfs and frost giants, of treasure and magic, and of Asgard, home to the gods: Odin the all-father, highest and oldest of the Aesir; his mighty son Thor, whose hammer Mjollnir makes the mountain giants tremble; Loki, wily and handsome, reliably unreliable in his lusts; and Freya, more beautiful than the sun or the moon, who spurns those who seek to control her.
From the dawn of the world to the twilight of the gods, this is a thrilling, vivid retelling of the Norse myths fr... continue
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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
As relevant now as when it was first published, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South skilfully weaves a compelling love story into a clash between the pursuit of profit and humanitarian ideals. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Patricia Ingham. When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of loc... continue
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Not to Disturb by Muriel Spark EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Household servants and accidental guests must wait out the orders of the lords of the house: not to disturb.
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Nutshell by Ian McEwan EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
**The Number One Sunday Times bestseller** A Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Irish Times / Spectator / Sunday Times / The Times Book of the Year Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storyteller... continue