Best British & Irish Literature Books
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1. The Huguenot Connection Trilogy: Books 1 – 3: Includes: Merchants of Virtue, Voyage of Malice, Land of Hope
Author: by Paul C.R. Monk
English
761 pages
191648591X
A trilogy of epic historical adventure complete in one volume. A family torn apart. A king with an iron fist. Will their faith, love and loyalty be strong enough to help them survive war, persecution and a cruel separation?France, 1685.
Jeanne is the wife of a wealthy merchant, but now she risks losing everything. Louis XIV’s soldiers will stop at nothing to convert the country’s Huguenot “heretics” to the “true” faith, yet Jeanne and Jacob hold fast to their principals of liberty of conscience.
But will the punishment for their defiance be more than they can bear? If Jeanne and Jacob can’t find a way to evade the soldiers’ clutches, their family will face a fate worse than poverty and imprisonment. They may never see each other again As Jacob becomes an indentured servant in America and Jeanne earns a meager living in Switzerland, a sudden disruption in European politics leaves their chance of a bittersweet homecoming more doubtful than everWill the Delpech family survive the years of war, piracy and persecution to reunite at last?
2. The Norton Anthology of English Literature
Author: by Stephen Greenblatt
English
512 pages
0393603121
A responsive, refreshed, and media-rich revision of the best-selling anthology in the field The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources.
Also available is an ebook featuring exciting, teachable core selections of some of the very best of English literature from the print anthology. For more information on this digital offering, including its Table of Contents, visit the ebook page here.
3. Mr Bennet leaves his study : A Regency Romance based on P&P
Author: by Sydney Salier
B097D5TQBV
June 16, 2021
English
What might happen if a year before Netherfield was let, Mr Bennet had an epiphany and started to take an interest in his family. Could he have curbed the excesses of his wife and younger daughters? What impressions would the Bennet family have made on the inhabitants of Netherfield Park?
Would it have made a difference to the interactions between his family and the visitors from London and more importantly, Derbyshire? Find out in this gentle story about a family finding a new path to happiness, as the ripples of Mr Bennet’s change spread to the rest of his family.
4. Wuthering Heights
Author: by Emily Bronte
English
230 pages
150531349X
He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Bront, Wuthering HeightsWuthering Heights is Emily Bront’s first and only published novel, written between October 1845 and June 1846, and published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell; Bront died the following year, aged 30.
The decision to publish came after the success of her sister Charlotte’s novel, Jane Eyre. After Emily’s death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuthering Heights, and arranged for the edited version to be published as a posthumous second edition in 1850.
Wuthering Heights is the name of the farmhouse where the story unfolds. The book’s core theme is the destructive effect of jealousy and vengefulness both on the jealous or vengeful individuals and on their communities. A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!
5. In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World War II
Author: by Rhys Bowen
B01HBKAYMA
March 1, 2017
English
Instantly absorbing, suspenseful, romantic, and stylishlike binge-watching a great British drama on Masterpiece Theater. Lee Child, New York Times bestselling authorWinner of the Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel, the Macavity Award for Best Historical Novel, and the Left Coast Crime Award for Best Historical Mystery.
World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy.
The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham’s middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. But Pamela has her own secret: she has taken a job at Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking facility. As Ben follows a trail of spies and traitors, which may include another member of Pamela’s family, he discovers that some within the realm have an appalling, history-altering agenda.
6. Pride and Prejudice: Illustrations by Marjolein Bastin (Marjolein Bastin Classics Series)
Author: by Jane Austen
English
288 pages
1524861758
Gems of literature in a luxurious and unique design by Marjolein Bastin. The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to rediscover classic literature in collectible, luxuriously illustrated volumes. For the first time ever, the internationally celebrated artwork of Marjolein Bastin graces the pages of a timeless classic, Pride and Prejudice, the enduring story of the Bennet sisters and their quest for suitable marriages.
Beyond bringing these stories to life, Bastin’s series adds elaborately designed ephemera, such as four-color maps, letters, family trees, and sheet music. Whether an ideal gift for an Austen or Bront devotee or a treat for yourself, The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series, as a set or individually purchased, is perfect for anyone who feels a connection to these enduring literary gems.
7. The Norton Anthology of English Literature
Author: by Stephen Greenblatt
English
512 pages
039360313X
A responsive, refreshed, and media-rich revision of the best-selling anthology in the field The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources.
Also available is an ebook featuring exciting, teachable core selections of some of the very best of English literature from the print anthology. For more information on this digital offering, including its Table of Contents, visit the ebook page here.
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100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 1]
Author: by Alexandre Dumas
B076X98Q6X
KTHTK (July 12, 2021)
July 12, 2021
This 1st volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:Alcott, Louisa May: Little WomenAusten, Jane: Pride and PrejudiceAusten, Jane: EmmaBalzac, Honor de: Father GoriotBarbusse, Henri: The InfernoBront, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell HallBront, Charlotte: Jane EyreBront, Emily: Wuthering HeightsBurroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the ApesButler, Samuel: The Way of All FleshCarroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandCather, Willa: My ntoniaCervantes, Miguel de: Don QuixoteChopin, Kate: The AwakeningCleland, John: Fanny HillCollins, Wilkie: The MoonstoneConrad, Joseph: Heart of DarknessConrad, Joseph: NostromoCooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the MohicansCrane, Stephen: The Red Badge of CourageCummings, E.E.: The Enormous RoomDefoe, Daniel: Robinson CrusoeDefoe, Daniel: Moll FlandersDickens, Charles: Bleak HouseDickens, Charles: Great ExpectationsDostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and PunishmentDostoyevsky, Fyodor: The IdiotDoyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the BaskervillesDreiser, Theodore: Sister CarrieDumas, Alexandre: The Three MusketeersDumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte CristoEliot, George: MiddlemarchFielding, Henry: Tom JonesFlaubert, Gustave: Madame BovaryFlaubert, Gustave: Sentimental EducationFord, Ford Madox: The Good SoldierForster, E.M.: A Room With a ViewForster, E.M.: Howards EndGaskell, Elizabeth: North and SouthGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young WertherGogol, Nikolai: Dead SoulsGorky, Maxim: The MotherHaggard, H.
9. The Last Piece
Author: by Imogen Clark
B082WWL5HQ
July 28, 2020
English
A sudden departure.A story decades in the making. The chaotic but happy equilibrium of the Nightingale family is thrown into disarray when Cecilywhose children can’t remember her ever being remotely spontaneousdisappears to a Greek island with no warning or explanation.
Her reasons for doing something so out of character are a total mystery to her three daughters, high-powered executive Felicity, unfulfilled GP Julia and organised mother-of-five Lily. What connection could she possibly have with Kefalonia? But Cecily has gone to continue a story she thought ended decades agoone that could have a huge impact on her family.
And when she returns, she’ll have to tell them the truth. Will Cecily be able to hold her family together once she reveals her big secret? And might she discover that she’s not the only one with a story to tell?
10. Reluctantly Home
Author: by Imogen Clark
B08BL81X9Q
April 29, 2021
English
From the bestselling author of Where the Story Starts comes a tale about dealing with the pastand finally facing the future. Pip Appleby seems to have it all, with her prestigious job as a human rights lawyer and her enviable London home.
But then a tragic accident stops her life in its tracks, and in an instant everything changes. Retreating to her family’s rural farm and the humble origins she has been trying to hide, Pip is haunted by what she has done.
When she discovers the diary of actress Evelyn Mountcastle in a box of old books, Pip revels in the opportunity to lose herself in someone else’s life rather than focus on the disaster that is her own. But soon she sees parallelsEvelyn’s life was also beset by tragedy, and, like Pip, she returned to Southwold under a dark cloud.
When Pip and Evelyn’s paths cross in real life they slowly begin to reveal the hidden stories that are holding them back. Can they help each other forgive what happened in the past and, perhaps, find happiness in the future?
11. Emma: Illustrations by Marjolein Bastin (Marjolein Bastin Classics Series)
Author: by Jane Austen
Andrews McMeel Publishing
English
360 pages
The exquisite illustrations of Marjolein Bastin meet timeless text in this elegant special edition of an English masterpiece. The Marjolein Bastin Classics Seriesis a chance to rediscover classic literature in collectible, luxuriously illustrated volumes. For the first time ever, the internationally celebrated artwork of Marjolein Bastin graces the pages of the timeless classic, Emma, the story of the well-meaning matchmaker of Highbury village.
Beyond bringing these stories to life, Bastin’s series adds elaborately designed ephemera, such as letters, invitations, and more. Whether an ideal gift for an Austen or Bront devotee or a treat for yourself, The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series, as a set or individually purchased, is perfect for anyone who feels a connection to these enduring literary gems.
12. The Bottle of Tears
Author: by Nick Alexander
B07PG8X2RS
August 1, 2019
English
They all lived through that terrible Christmas. The problem is, they remember it differentlySisters Penny and Victoria seem to have nothing in commonexcept perhaps envy. Penny seems blessed with a perfect work-life balance, though only she knows how underpaid and underappreciated she is, while Victoria appears to have everything she could wish for along with a growing list of neuroses that keep her teetering on the brink of breakdown.
For years the sisters have been at odds for reasons they don’t quite understand. What they do know is that everything changed on Christmas Eve 1976, when a shocking chain of events fractured the family forever. But when a fresh tragedy strikes, it becomes clear that Victoria remembers a lot more about that horrific day than she’s letting onAs secrets from their childhood are forced to the surface, the sisters must confront the shadows of the past together.
Because, as they come to learn, as long as the truth remains bottled up, their relationships with each other, and to the past, can never heal. Revised edition: This edition of The Bottle of Tears (also published as Let the Light Shine) includes editorial revisions.
13. The Day She Came Back
Author: by Amanda Prowse
B082WVMGQG
July 7, 2020
English
From the bestselling author of The Girl in the Corner comes a story that asks: how do you forgive the family that lied to you, and love the mum you never had? When her loving, free-spirited grandmother Primrose passes away, Victoria is bereft, yet resilientshe has survived tragedy before.
But even her strength is tested when a mysterious woman attends Prim’s funeral and claims to be the mother Victoria thought was dead. As the two women get to know each other and Victoria begins to learn more about her past, it becomes clear that her beloved grandmother had been keeping life-changing secrets from her.
Desperate for answers, she still struggles to trust anyone to tell her the truth. To live a full and happy life, Victoria knows she must not only uncover the truth, but find a way to forgive her family. But after so many years, is trusting them even possible?
14. A Tale of Two Cities
Author: by Charles Dickens
English
288 pages
1503219704
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. Charles DickensA Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction.
Though the least typical of the author’s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themesimprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal. Dickens’ best-known work of historical fiction, A Tale of Two Cities is claimed to be one of the best-selling novels of all time with purported sales of an estimated 200 million copies.
In 2003, the novel was ranked 63rd on the BBC’s The Big Read poll. The novel has been adapted for film, television,radio, and the stage, and has continued to have an influence on popular culture. All time bestseller Classics!
15. Never Greener: the number one bestselling novel from the co-creator of GAVIN & STACEY
Author: by Ruth Jones
B01DOE2VN2
April 5, 2018
English
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, PICKED FOR THE ZOE BALL TV BOOK CLUB’Ruth Jones is excellent on human nature and why we make the mistakes we do. I felt for every character. Unputdownable.’ Jojo MoyesThe past has a habit of tracking us down.And tripping us up.
When Kate was twenty-two, she had an intense and passionate affair with a married man, Callum, which ended in heartbreak. Kate thought she’d never get over it. Seventeen years later, life has moved on – Kate, now a successful actress, is living in London, married to Matt and mother to little Tallulah.
Meanwhile Callum and his wife Belinda are happy together, living in Edinburgh and watching their kids grow up. The past, it would seem, is well and truly behind them all. But then Kate meets Callum again. And they are faced with a choice: to walk away from each other …
Or to risk finding out what might have been. Second chances are a rare gift in life. But that doesn’t mean they should always be taken … In her unmissable debut, actress and screenwriter Ruth Jones shows us the dangers of trying to recapture that which was once lost and failing to realise the beauty of what we already have.
16. Pride and Prejudice: Deluxe Edition (Illustrated) – Golden Classics
Author: by Jane Austen
B0948LNYPP
English
306 pages
This Deluxe Edition, beautifully designed to be collected and given as a gift to your loved ones, includes: the unabridged manuscript (introduction and list of characters included) 2 historical reviews (from 1813) 45 timeless love lessons that will take root in your heart and grow there for a lifetime; a selection of charming black and white line drawings by C.E.
Brock (from 1895 Macmillan Edition of Pride&Prejudice) Uncover one of the most beloved stories of all time. Celebrated as one of the most famous and influential books of all time, Pride and Prejudice stands as a literary masterpiece that has touched millions’ hearts.
This touching tale uses a delightful sense of humor and an honest look at the customs and rules of the 19th-century upper-class society to grapple with essential questions about marriage, economic inequality, reputation, and above all…True love. GOLDEN CLASSICS publishes elegant new editions of timeless classics, bringing their wisdom and lessons to readers of all ages.
