Comments for Win The Once and Future Celt
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Comment #1: Sunday, November, 9, 2008 at 14:19:25
I could say something refined like "Remains of the Day" (which was good) but my true favorite is "Harry Potter" by J.K. Rowling. I doubt I have to tell you the details of that book. :)
Comment #2: Sunday, November, 9, 2008 at 23:12:18
christopher harner
Picking Up the Pieces by Mary Sheepshanks, it's about the matriarch of an English family, recently widowed, striking out on her own looking for a new life and romance
Comment #3: Monday, November, 10, 2008 at 09:34:37
Amber G
Why, Harry Potter of course :)
Comment #4: Monday, November, 10, 2008 at 11:34:07
David Bertolo
Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express----Always a classic
Comment #5: Monday, November, 10, 2008 at 12:07:30
Becca
My favorite British novel is Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. A new bride feels haunted by her husbands first wife, Rebecca, who feels very present in the house. She is determined to find the answers to the mysteries that surround her and the truth about Rebecca's death.
Comment #6: Monday, November, 10, 2008 at 20:54:13
A favorite British book of mine is 'The Lost Garden' by Helen Humphreys. It's set in WWII about a women who leaves London to a potato farm in order to help grow food for the war effort. While there see finds a lost garden, love, and friendship.
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Comment #7: Monday, November, 10, 2008 at 21:19:14
Robert Doscher
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
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Comment #8: Monday, November, 10, 2008 at 23:03:45
My favorite British Book is a series by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. It is called the Morland Dynasty and at present is just over thirty books (!). It follows the history of one family (and their big old British pile of a house) from the beginning in the 1400s. The latest book is set in World War I and the author plans to take the series thru the end of World War II. It's quite an investment but totally worth it for a Historical Fiction fan like me!
Comment #9: Tuesday, November, 11, 2008 at 15:50:40
Desmond
I have to go with Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd. The novel traces the histories of five families in the Salisbury area, from Roman times to the present day.
Comment #10: Wednesday, November, 12, 2008 at 22:44:50
Melissa B.
The harry potter series was good. I would like to read Diary of a Chav.
Comment #11: Thursday, November, 13, 2008 at 13:09:25
The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling - it's truly mesmerizing :)
Comment #12: Thursday, November, 13, 2008 at 15:57:50
Wow. Favorite British book? Hmmm...
I think I'll have to go with Margery Allingham's Sweet Danger (aka The Fear Sign.) I love al of the Albert Campion mysteries, but this one has a little something extra. Campion is embroiled in a plot to help a young man regain his title (and throne) and in the process meets the young fellow's sister (who will become very important to him later on), must confront a lunatic doctor, and nearly drowns. Not bad for a character that up and took over Margery's book "The Crime at Black Dudley", in which he was a secondary character.
Comment #13: Sunday, November, 16, 2008 at 01:15:37
Harry Potter would be the immediate answer - but upon some thought, I think I would have to say Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I read this book in high school and fell in love with it. It is about a love affair, albeit a doomed love affair, between Heathcliff and Catherine and all of the family that it eventually destroys.
Comment #14: Sunday, November, 16, 2008 at 12:07:14
No Angel by Penny VIncenzi about a British publishing company. No Angel is the first in a trilogy and it was a totally fabulous read.
Comment #15: Thursday, November, 20, 2008 at 13:21:25
sandra kao
The Nine Day Queen of England: Lady Jane Grey by Faith Cook
Comment #16: Thursday, November, 20, 2008 at 13:21:25
sandra kao
The Nine Day Queen of England: Lady Jane Grey by Faith Cook
Comment #17: Sunday, November, 30, 2008 at 22:14:52
jeanne
Ah, how can I choose just one? Well, I guess my all-time favorite British book is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll (pseudonym for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). It, of course, is the story of a girl who follows a white rabbit down a hole and into another world filled with talking animals and other amazing creatures.
Comment #18: Tuesday, December, 2, 2008 at 16:40:03
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS - Agatha Christie A great book and a great movie!
Comment #19: Monday, December, 8, 2008 at 13:08:53
Rachel Storey
My favorite British book is Tipping the Velvet.
Comment #20: Monday, December, 8, 2008 at 16:51:07
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens has always been my favorite.
Comment #21: Tuesday, December, 9, 2008 at 19:06:53
Ed Nemmers
"On Chesil Beach" by Ian McEwan
Comment #22: Tuesday, December, 9, 2008 at 23:04:17
fatseal
My favorite British book is any of the Brother Cadfael mystery series by Ellis Peters, particularly the Rose Rent of The Virgin in the Ice, for their since of place and time. They capture the historical details of life in the 15th century in such a way that you feel like you are there, and completely suspend your disbelief, like walking backward through time. I hate when they end, I feel like I'm being pulled out of the world I should be in and thrust into a place in time I don't want to be.
Comment #23: Wednesday, December, 10, 2008 at 12:11:56
Buddy Garrett
My favorite is Brick Lane:ANovel by Monica Ali. It is a fascinating read about a Bangadesh girl who immigrates to England and her growth into a woman. There are a lot of memorable characters. It is an interesting story of immigrant life.
Comment #24: Wednesday, December, 10, 2008 at 19:20:11
Elizabeth M.
I would say Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.