Kenyan readers don't like and/or don't get modern British novels - so what?

But there were also some quintessentially British novels.

Barbauld was also a literary critic, and her anthology of 18th-century British novels helped establish the canon as known today.

They became wonderful people, really, unpretentious, loyal, good-hearted, rather like the country vicars in 19th-century British novels.

Here the 18th-century British novel is represented by its publication rate: a single, undulating fever line.

Her studies focused on 19th century British novels.

Sons and Lovers was one of the first British novels to deal explicitly with sexual matters.

"You've been reading a British novel, Victorian period," he accused.

Kazuo Ishiguro has written a number of well-known British novels.