The Monarch of the Glen (novel)
Comedy novel by Compton Mackenzie (1833–1972), portraying life in the fictional Scottish Highland estate of Glenbogle during the 1930s.
Keep the Home Guard Turning
Comedy novel by Compton Mackenzie (1833–1972, portraying the exploits of the Home Guard on the fictional island of Todday during the Second World War.
Whisky Galore (novel)
Novel by Compton Mackenzie based on the real-life 1941 sinking of a ship carrying a large quantity of whisky, and the local residents’ attempts to recover it and hide it from the authorities.
Epistolatory novel
Novel written in the form of a series of letters.
The Screwtape Letters
1942 novel by C. S. Lewis, in the form of a series of letters between a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew Wormwood, who is tasked with securing the damnation of a British man known only as the patient.
The First Men in the Moon
Scientific romance by H. G. Wells first published in 1901, about two men who travel to the Moon using an anti-gravity substance known as cavorite.
Joan and Peter
Novel by H. G Wells published in 1918, about the education and adolescence of Joan and Peter, two samples of their generation, an excerpt of which was published under the title “Peter Learns Arithmetic” in 1958.
Beware the Cat
First English novel, an anti-Catholic satire published in 1570.
Montezuma’s Daughter
Novel by H. Rider Haggard published in 1893, the last of his best work.
The Man in the Moone
Book by the English divine and Church of England bishop Francis Godwin (1562–1633), describing a “voyage of utopian discovery”.
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