As an American editor, I'm not biased towards certain authors, but I do know that stories not set in America have to be pretty exceptional to succeed in the U.S. market. People like reading about what they're familiar with.
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The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud. Septimus Heap by Angie Sage. Children of the Red King (Charlie Bone) by Jenny Nimmo.
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Nick Hornsby, Irvine Welsh, Roddy Doyle (An Englishman, a Scot & an Irishman), all of which write modern novels in easily understood first person voices.
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The only way you can do that is through research. You need to spend time in a library using Literary Marketplace- the author's Bible. You can buy one too but it costs 300 dollars. You would have to seek out agents that represent books in yo...
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Anything by Agatha Christie. The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Wolf
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Half of pink kingdom's suggestions aren't actually British. It's a start, though, I'm sure. Have you tried Deborah Moggach? She's not got the same tone or style as Tyler, but something, perhaps, of the same emotional territory. I for one...
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