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British/UK Fiction Feature Writer: Elizabeth Gregory

From Shakespeare to the Restoration, Victorian and modern eras this topic reintroduces some obscure or forgotten authors, who deserve to be neither, while recognising some writers who are household names thanks to Booker and Orange Prizes, literary colonialism or well-earned reputation.

From John Milton and Oscar Wilde to Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen, Nick Hornby and Zadie Smith to Thomas Hardy and James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw and Aldous Huxley to George Eliot and Charlotte Bronte, Ian McEwan and Jeanette Winterson to Salmon Rushdie and Iris Murdoch and dozens of others debuting as we speak, we'll let you know what's hot, what's overrated, and what to buy that reluctant reader.

Post in the discussion forum or email me with your own requests or reviews.


Feature Writer Articles in British/UK Fiction

 		Best-Selling Booker Prize Winners
Mantel's tale of Henry VIII has officially become the bestselling winner of the Booker Prize since scooping the award in 2009, but which others have proved popular?
Review of Martina Cole's Hard Girls
Martina Cole's new novel features a familiar face - Kate Burrows, now a retired DCI, but who cannot resist helping out as Grantley is hit by another grisly serial killer.
Book Review: Peter James' Dead Tomorrow
A complex and intriguing case of illegal human trafficking confronts Detective Superintendent Roy Grace.
Costa Book Awards 2009
Writers including Hilary Mantel, Penelope Lively, Colm Toibin and Clive James will be hoping that their work will scoop this year's Costa Book of the Year Award.
Booker Prize-Winning Writer Hilary Mantel
British writer Hilary Mantel hit the headlines recently when her novel Wolf Hall won the 2009 Booker Prize, yet her career as an author spans more than twenty years.
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Contributing Articles in British/UK Fiction

 		Rereading Rebecca
What is it like to reread Rebecca in one's 30s? After all the experience one has gained and after all the changes that have transformed social values?
Postmodernistic Carnevalesque in Patience Agbabi
Lauri Ramey, a critic, claims that much of "black" British poetry does not fit the mode of canonical poetry because it falls short of postmodernistic avant-gardism.
Analysis of Patience Agbabi's Transformatrix
In Patience Agbabi's Transformatrix, she creates poetry and prose poetry that open themselves up to avant-garde, carnivalesque, and postmodern interpretation.
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
A classic tale told from the horse's point of view, this book will appeal to all horse lovers everywhere.
Bond Street Story by Norman Collins
In this touching story of 1950s British life, Norman Collins follows the romantic fortunes and family dramas of a group of London department store employees.
The Narrator of Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
The character of the Narrator/Dreamer journeys from numb reason to awareness and empathy.
Anatomy of Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim
Lord Jim is a revelation of human weakness, frailty, and ambiguity but also courage. As the plot unfolds, Jim atones for his weakness and ambiguity with acts of bravery.
Cecelia Ahern Novel – The Gift Review
This is a great heart-warming novel for anytime of year but as it's based on the season of goodwill, that's a good time to read it. The Gift makes a great Xmas present.
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory is the fictional telling of King Henry VIII's fourth and fifth wives, told in a manor the will captivate the reader.
Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities at 150
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times, and it was the time for one man to do a far better thing...
Examining Anonymity in Middlemarch
Fame is often elusive. Artists, especially, whether dancers, painters, musicians, or writers, seek fame, a topic written about by George Eliot.
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol in the Wild
When a college student decided to leave school for a year, and take a job in the Idaho-Montana mountains, he didn't know he would come to appreciate a Victorian novel.
Flocking to Read The Shepherd Lord
Did a long-lost young lord hide as a shepherd after the disastrous campaigns of the War of the Roses?
Understanding Mrs. Dalloway
Published in 1925, Virginia Woolf's experimental Mrs. Dalloway adopts an innovative narrative structure to represent post-war society in England.
Book Review: The Country Life, by Rachel Cusk
The Country Life initially reads like English "chick lit," but then the work takes meaningful and thoughtful turns, with a witty and humorous tinge.
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