Books from United Kingdom
458 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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Penance by Eliza Clark EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
On a beach in a run-down seaside town on the Yorkshire coastline, sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson is set on fire by three other schoolgirls.
Nearly a decade after the horrifying murder, journalist Alec Z. Carelli has written the definitive account of the crime, drawn from hours of interviews with witnesses and family members, painstaking historical research, and most notably, correspondence with the killers themselves. The result is a riveting snapshot of lives rocked by tragedy, and a town left in turmoil.
But how much of the story is true?
Compulsively readable, provocative, and distur... continue
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Pigeon by Alys Conran EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
An incongruous ice-cream van lurches up into the Welsh hills through the hail, pursued by a boy and girl who chase it into their own dark make-believe world, and unfurl in their compelling voices a tale which ultimately breaks out of childhood and echoes across the years. Pigeon is the tragic, occasionally hilarious and ultimately intense story of a childhood friendship and how it s torn apart, a story of guilt, silence and the loss of innocence, and a story about the kind of love which may survive it all."
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Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction World Fantasy Awards Finalist From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands t... continue
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Pobby şi Dingan by Ben Rice RO
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
This enchanting tale is at once a beautifully rendered narrative of childhood loss and a powerfully simple fable about the necessity of imagination.
Pobby and Dingan are Kellyanne Williamson’s best friends, maybe her only friends, and only she can see them. Kellyanne’s brother, Ashmol, can’t see them and doesn’t believe they exist anywhere but in Kellyanne’s immature imagination. Only when Pobby and Dingan disappear and Kellyanne becomes heartsick over their loss does Ashmol realize that not only must he believe in Pobby and Dingan, he must convince others to bel... continue
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Poor Things by Alasdair Gray EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
What strange secret made rich, beautiful, tempestuous Bella Baxter irresistible to the poor Scottish medical student Archie McCandless? Was it her mysterious origin in the home of his monstrous friend Godwin Baxter, the genius whose voice could perforate eardrums? This story of true love and scientific daring whirls the reader from the private operating-theatres of late-Victorian Glasgow through aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church.
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Poor Things [Movie Tie-In] : A Novel by Alasdair Gray EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Basis for the Major Motion Picture starring Emma Stone, Ramy Youssef, Mark Ruffalo, and Willem Dafoe, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. "Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray's Poor Things echoes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in this novel of a young woman freeing herself from the confines of the suffocating Victorian society she was created to serve. Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize In the 1880s in Glasgow, Scotland, medical student Archibald McCandless finds himself enchanted with the intriguing creature known as Bella Baxter. Suppo... continue
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Porno by Irvine Welsh RO
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
La zece ani dupa evenimentele care au marcat actiunea din Trainspotting, Simon „Sick Boy” Williamson se intoarce in Edinburgh dupa o lunga perioada petrecuta la Londra. Esuind spectaculos ca escroc, peste, sot, tata si om de afaceri, Sick Boy profita de ceea ce i se pare a fi ultima lui sansa: pornografia. Pe de alta parte, pentru a-si infaptui visul de a produce si a regiza un film porno, Sick Boy trebuie sa faca echipa cu vechiul lui prieten, Mark Renton, exilat in ultimii ani la Amsterdam, si cu o gasca pestrita care ii include pe unul dintre cei mai mari obsedati sexual, fiul f... continue
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Pour rien au monde by Ken Follett FR
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Une crise internationale va-t-elle déclencher une troisième guerre mondiale ? De nos jours, dans le désert du Sahara, deux agents secrets sont sur la piste d'un groupe de terroristes trafiquants de drogue et risquent leur vie à chaque instant. Non loin, une jeune veuve se bat contre des passeurs tout en voyageant illégalement pour rejoindre l'Europe. Elle est aidée par un homme mystérieux qui cache sa véritable identité. En Chine, un membre du gouvernement à l'ambition démesurée pour lui et son pays lutte contre les vieux faucons communistes de l'administration qui poussent leur pays – et la C... continue
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
"He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention." Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay of the English literary canon. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down. Pride encounters prejudice, upward-mobility confronts social disdain, and quick-wittedness challenges sagacity. Misconceptions and hasty judgements bring heartache and scandal, but eventually lead to true understanding, s... continue
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Prohibido morir aquí by Elizabeth Taylor ES
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Una lluviosa tarde de domingo, poco después de haber enviudado, Laura Palfrey llega al Claremont para iniciar una nueva vida. En el hotel la esperan cuatro huéspedes permanentes, días ordenados en torno a las rutinas de las comidas y los programas de televisión. Solo modifica el tedio la visita esporádica de algunos familiares. Pero nadie va a ver a Laura. Cuando de pronto conoce en la calle a Ludo, un joven a quien desvela el deseo de ser escritor, juntos elaboran un plan para compensar la soledad a la que la tienen sometida.
Elegida por The Guardian como u... continue