England -- Fiction books

Lady Audley's Secret

M. E. Braddon

The novel is a Victorian psychological domestic drama that opens with an elaborate, almost reverent…

The Red House Mystery

A. A. Milne

The Red House Mystery is a British detective tale set in an English country house, introduced through a…

Set in Silver

Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris); Williamson, A. M.

Set in Silver is an epistolary novel that opens with a lively letter from Audrie Brendon to her mother in…

The Railway Children

E. Nesbit

The Railway Children is a youthful adventure set against the backdrop of English railways and countryside…

The secret of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton

The story opens with Father Brown, the unassuming Catholic priest‑detective, interrogating a suspect in a…

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair is a satirical novel that opens amid the bustling, self‑conscious world of Sir Pitt Crawley, a…

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

The work is a whimsical fantasy set among talking animals, blending gentle humor with a pastoral English…

Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens

The novel opens amid a chaotic coach ride, where the heavy‑handed guard and the impatient coachman jostle a…

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

Hard Times is a social‑problem novel set in an industrial England that treats its characters as data points…

An Old Man's Love

Anthony Trollope

The novel opens with a portrait of Mr Hall, a seventy‑year‑old English squire who prides himself on a life…

The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers presents itself as a comic chronicle of a small English club and its eccentric members as…

Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)

John Cleland

The work is an eighteenth‑century English novel that presents itself as the frank memoir of Frances Hill, a…

Olive: A Novel

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Olive: A Novel is a Victorian‑era domestic story that begins with the birth of its eponymous heroine, Olive…

The Lost Continent

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Lost Continent is a science‑fiction adventure that begins by sketching a world in which the Atlantic and…

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

The book is a whimsical fantasy set in an English countryside where animals speak and behave like genteel…

The Message

A. J. Dawson

The novel opens with a reflective, first‑person account of a young man’s upbringing in the English village of…

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

The novel is a domestic drama set in early‑nineteenth‑century England, focusing on the tangled relationships…

A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day

Charles Reade

The novel opens with a lavish portrait of Miss Arabella Bruce, a striking young woman whose crimson hair,…

A Simple Story

Mrs. Inchbald

A Simple Story is an eighteenth‑century English novel that concentrates on a handful of intimate…

Thelma

Marie Corelli

The novel opens with a lavish, almost theatrical description of the midnight sun over Norway’s Altenfjord,…

The Explorer

W. Somerset Maugham

The novel opens on a bleak, wind‑less stretch of Kentish coast, where a solitary woman stands amid tangled…

To Love

Margaret Peterson

The novel is a turn‑of‑the‑century English romance that opens with a conversation between the headstrong…

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss is a domestic tale set in rural England, foregrounded by a vivid description of the…

The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens

The work is a Victorian‑era didactic tale that weaves together domestic concerns, the world of antique…