According to a recent survey of readers outside the UK, Middlemarch is the best British novel of all time.
Here are the top eleven British novels – we wanted to ensure Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was included in the list. She is just outside the top ten. Charles Dickens features three times with David Copperfield, Bleak House and Great Expectations and Virginia Woolf twice with To The Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway.
Lots to encourage you to put your feet up this month and chill out with a book.
On June 2, 2017
With the world focused on London as we count down to the Olympics, we decided to ask a few notable British authors to select the book that, for them, best...
On July 23, 2012
It is that time of year! We have started to feel all cheery as Christmas approaches.
On November 16, 2012
In a rare interview with Garage Magazine Beyonce has revealed the book she hopes her young fans will read.
On March 14, 2016
We are currently reading Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser.
On January 24, 2013
Jessica Cornwell is an academic, playwright and classicist. Now 28, she grew up in a family of writers in a community in California. As well as winning numerous prestigious grants...
On February 9, 2015
