Books set in the UK By Anne-Christine 1596 Hamnet 1600 Shakespeare - The World as Stage 1645 The Witchfinder's Sister 1666 Year of Wonders 1760 The Bluestockings 1820 Remarkable Creatures 1838 The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter 1844 The Girl in his Shadow 1850 Romancing Miss Brontë 1859 Charles and Emma 1879 Bringing Down the Duke 1880 The Professor and the Madman 1889 Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance 1900 American Duchess 1902 The Dictionary of Lost Words 1908 A Room with a View 1914 The Summer Before the War 1920 Le chagrin des vivants 1926 The Mystery of Mrs. Christie 1926 The Christie Affair 1931 Queens of Crime 1932 A Single Thread 1938 The House at Tyneford 1940 The Chilbury Ladies' Choir 1940 Mr Churchill's Secretary 1941 The Spies of Shilling Lane 1941 Dear Mrs. Bird 1942 The Kitchen Front 1942 The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle 1943 The Girl from the Channel Islands 1945 Ombres sur la Tamise 1946 The Song of Hartgrove Hall 1946 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 1946 The Jane Austen Society 1956 Becoming Mrs Lewis