English Literature
Books
Novels
Solar, Enduring Love, Saturday by Ian McEwan
Spies by Michael Frayn
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
Outcast by Sadie Jones
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler The Color Purple by Alice Walker Dracula by Bram Stoker
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Reader by Bernard Schlink
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Literary Books
The Penguin Short History of English Literature by Stephen Coote
Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt
1599 by James Shapiro
The Artful Dickens by John Mullan
English Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Bate
A Dictionary of Literary Terms by Martin Gray
Doing English by Robert Eaglestone
How to Write Better Essays by Bryan Greetham
Oxford concise companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer
Pastoral by Terry Gifford
The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry
The Poet’s Craft by Sandy Brownjohn
Podcasts
Lectures
Gothic Literature: https://massolit.io/search?q=gothic
Romanticism: https://massolit.io/courses/romanticism
William Shakespeare: https://massolit.io/subjects/english-literature/william-shakespeare
Visits
The Globe Theatre, London: https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/
The Charles Dickens Museum, London: https://dickensmuseum.com/
The RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon: https://www.rsc.org.uk/whats-on/
Jane Austen Museum, Bath: https://janeausten.co.uk/
Samuel Johnson’s House, London: https://www.drjohnsonshouse.org/
Shakespeare’s birthplace / Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Stratford-upon-Avon: https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/
Milton’s Cottage, Buckinghamshire: https://www.miltonscottage.org/
Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein, Bath: https://houseoffrankenstein.com/
Any theatre (local or London based)
Local libraries
Web sites
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books
The British Library: https://www.bl.uk/
The Booker Prizes: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/
Research
Future Learn Course: Shakespeare: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/explore-english-shakespeare
Future Learn Course: Poetry: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/what-is-poetry