ITT recommend contemporary British literature that is good.

>>9242114
Harry Potter

>>9242162
get fucked

>>9242114

Gormenghast
Parade's End
Everything by Waugh

>>9242183
They're all dead

>>9242183
Well done anon, nice selection of contemporary fiction, you even managed to get someone born in the 19th century in there, great job

File: 1473047405903.jpg (47KB, 508x524px) Image search: [Google]

47KB, 508x524px

>>9242114
>contemporary British literature
>good

>>9242114
Murasaki Shikibu
Omar Khayyam
Luís de Camões

Don't know why these guys never make the Booker shortlist

Zia Haider Rahman - In The Light Of What We Know
Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project

>>9242194

It depresses me all of those will be forgotten by the public but JK Rowling will be remembered for centuries to come.

Gormenghast is a wild card though, depends largely on how much Hollywood or someone tries to make it into a Harry Potter or GOT type commercial franchise.

>>9242114
B.S. Johnson
Christine Brooke-Rose
Ann Quin
John Hawkes
Not really contemporary but all absolute madcunts.

File: 07e8b8c8039ef84e35b02e59cd0d97e3e569387d.jpg (8KB, 247x165px) Image search: [Google]

8KB, 247x165px

The absolute state of contemporary British literature

Kazuo Ishiguro. He's very good.

File: 1480840384175.jpg (182KB, 1440x1080px) Image search: [Google]

182KB, 1440x1080px

>>9242114
British Literature hasn't been good since the Victorian Era

Is there a correlation between the impoverishment of British writing and the rise of literature studies in academic institutions?

>>9242419

Picked up Umbrella from the library a few days ago because I haven't read anything contemporary in ages.

Is he alright?

>>9243968
Umbrella is fantastic. High modernism at its best.

>>9243950
Initially he couldn't get anyone in the uk UK to publish remainder.....so a small French publisher put out a limited number of copies.

That's what's wrong with contemporary British writing......publishers

File: WolfHall.jpg (124KB, 304x455px) Image search: [Google]

124KB, 304x455px

>>9242537

British Literature hasn't been good since the Vi...... oh shit.

Same guy who recommended Waugh, Peake and Ford here. I highly recommend reading E.M Forster's The Machine Stops.

>>9243950
this and C are both great, Satin Island was disappointing. anyone read Men In Space?

I read a book titled "Playthings" by Alex Pheby, published by Galley Beggar Press that was quite good. Small presses might have something that will suprise you.

>>9244076
if we're talking small presses, Charles Lambert's A Zero At Its Heart should really have got more attention.

>>9242114
Angela Carter is obligatory even just for The Bloody Chamber, but also the Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman is very good.