Im looking for british authors?

Question

doing an outside reading project at school and dont like any of the books my teacher has found and i am trying to find an intersting british author.

Answer 1

Jane Austen, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, James Barrie, William Thackeray

Answer 2

There's always the mystery greats Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dame Agatha Christie.

Answer 3

Orwell was a writer who wrote through his own experience. His novel Burmese Days exposes the inefficiency and brutality of The Indian Imperial Police in which he spent his early days. Appalled by the injustice of British rule in the Far East, Orwell resigned and lived as an outcast in France and in the Kent hop-fields from where he acquired the material for Down and Out in Paris and London.

Orwell moved on to live in a mining community in the North, during the Depression and recounted his experiences in The Road To Wigan Pier. This novel was Orwell’s first socialist work. He used his experience of the suffering of the mining families to appeal for social change.

Orwell’s later employment as a bookseller’s assistant gave him the material for Keep the Aspidistra Flying, a satirical novel lampooning the Middle Class and it’s pretentious conventions.

During the Spanish Civil War, Orwell fought on the Republican side and wrote Homage To Calalonia out of his experience. He was injured in the conflict and was unable to serve in the fight against Fascism in the Second World War. At this time, reports of Stalin’s tyranny in the Soviet Union led to Orwell’s disillusionment with Socialism.

It was then that Orwell started to write from his imagination. Animal Farm satirised the Russian Revolution and the record of the Soviet state.

Nineteen Eighty-Four, written in 1948, predicted the totalitarian state that Britain would become if subjected to Socialism. Many of his neologisms ‘newspeak’, ‘big brother’ ‘doublethink’ became bywords for political manipulation.

Orwell’s name was not if fact George Orwell! In order to work undercover as an opponent of the class system, he took the name of the river Orwell as pseudonym. His real name was Eric Blair. So Eric was eradicated and George was germinated. Blair was abandoned as bad and Orwell was all well with the world.

Answer 4

once you have an interest in chick lit, i'd advise Sophie Kinsella. She writes the Confessions of a Shopaholic sequence and she or he's British. The novels are mild, common reads and positively made me giggle out loud distinctive circumstances. I picked the 1st one up on a whim and don't remorseful approximately it one bit. in case you like her Shopaholic books, i'd additionally advise The Undomestic Godess (additionally by Kinsella). (For reference, if involved: CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC ORDER: a million) Confessions of a Shopaholic 2) Shopaholic Takes huge apple 3) Shopaholic Ties the Knot 4)Shopaholic and Sister 5) Shopaholic and infant) And, needless to say, in case you haven't any longer study Harry Potter, i'd noticeably propose them. they are common to get into and could engulf you right into a worldwide of magic.

Answer 5

For modern works, I'd recommend Neil Gaiman, Jasper Fforde and Terry Pratchett. Pratchett writes some brilliant comedy - he's best known for his Discworld novels. I'd recommend starting with "The Color of Magic", which is one of the earlier books in the series. Fforde writes comedy-mysteries set in a slightly odd alternate world where there are still tons of Shakespeare groupies. I'd recommend starting with "The Eyre Affair". Gaiman writes beautiful dark fantasy. For him, I'd recommend starting with "Neverwhere", the story of a young man who stumbles upon a dangerous world underneath modern London.

Fforde's homepage - http://www.jasperfforde.com/
Neil Gaiman's homepage - http://www.neilgaiman.com/
Terry Pratchett's homepage - http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/

Answer 6

Here's a link to a site listing many UK authors' websites. You could take a look at a few and see if any look interesting ...
http://www.ukchildrensbooks.co.uk/index.html

Answer 7

Try Bernard MacLaverty.

Answer 8

Go to the site listed and pick anyone from any century or genre.