Recs if you like The Woodlanders...

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.

More to come!

Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!

This is one of a few lists I'm making to help me organize my ideas for HRCYED 3.0. Feel free to take inspiration or comment with more ideas.

Say 'no' to the big city of London. Here are some books that take place in the English countryside. Not all are cozy!

classic novels where the depiction of rural, pastoral England is a notable feature

I think the author is using books as a character and social commentary. I’ve added one film poster & one play reference because they were originally written stories. I wonder if I have missed any.

(Cry Havoc is a wry, compelling, and funnier than expected, mystery at an all girls boarding school in 1980’s UK. Everyone has a secret and everything is going wrong. There’s a strange contagion taking place. A very satisfying read).