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“But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]”

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Author:Jane Austen

“Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.”

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Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a rare narrative in that it charts a life divided between England and Sudan. Without a doubt it is one of the finest Arabic novels of the 20th century, and Denys Johnson-Davies' translationdoes the original justice.”

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Author:Hisham Matar

“As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African.”

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Author:Sefi Atta

“I have written millions of words about contemporary England - in journalism. Why don't I take it as the background for a novel? I may do one day. But the simple answer is that it does not excite the novelistic part of my brain; it does not fire it up.”

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Author:Sebastian Faulks

“England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there.”

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Book:The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.”

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Author:Hilary Mantel

“At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.”

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Author:E. M. Forster

“Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder how they got mad. Perhaps I should go wandering on lonely moors and barren shores. That is always a popular place for lunatics - in novels and plays at any rate. Perhaps wild England will make me mad.”

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Book:Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

“In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.”

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Author:A. S. Byatt

“In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches of France and the fields of England. Her richly complex characters walk right off the page and into our imaginations, as we fight with them, farm with them, cook with them. I devoured this dazzling novel.”