Books like The British Museum is falling down by David Lodge

A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ allegorical novella about Ebenezer Scrooge, whose miserly ways are transformed through visits from Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

A sharp satire of Victorian business and politics, "The Way We Live Now" exposes the corrupt world of capitalists and criminal schemes in London society.

A comic travelogue following the Pickwick Club as they journey across England, observing and humorously critiquing social customs, inns, and the everyday lives of their fellow travelers.

Evelina is a comic novel of manners that follows a young London debutante as she navigates the social world of 18th‑century England, learning wit, confidence, and the subtleties of love.

Widow and her three orphaned children strive to build a life together in a modest California town, navigating the challenges of post‑war America and the enduring bonds of family.

Two witty London friends team up with a naïve Scottish lord to thwart the disastrous engagement of their former schoolmate, a PR agent who has secured a match for a castle that might be a ruin.

Under the fading light of the Chinese emperors and the waning British Empire, a young man’s desperate quest amid World War II reveals loyalty, betrayal, and the fragile ties of a racially mixed Malaysian society.

A charismatic cognitive science director in a university college falls between his stable marriage and a widowed novelist, leading to revelations about the limits of understanding others.

Sam, an aspiring filmmaker, and Lucy, longing for a child, face the challenges of IVF and the uncertain path of a new movie, testing whether their love can endure the unpredictable journey.

After winter adventures in Dahshoor, Amelia Peabody and her partner face a murder at the British Museum’s Egyptian wing, suspecting a curse from newly donated mummies while battling relentless press rivals. Can she uncover the killer before she becomes the next victim?

A darkly comic novel exploring the corrupting influence of politics and media in modern Britain.

Penelope Fitzgerald’s gentle comedy follows the strong-willed headmistress of Freddie’s, a London stage school for child actors, as she battles creditors, mentors a promising talent, and outwits a scheming rival.

"The articles with which David Lodge entertained and enlightened readers of the Independent on Sunday and The Washington Post are now revised, expanded and collected together in book form. The art of fiction is considered under a wide range of headings, such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Time-shift, Magical Realism and Symbolism, and each topic is illustrated by a passage or two taken from classic or modern fiction. Drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James and Martin Amis, Jane Austen and Fay Weldon and Henry Fielding and James Joyce, David Lodge makes accessible to the general reader the richness and variety of British and American fiction. Technical terms, such as Interior Monologue, Metafiction, Intertextuality and the Unreliable Narrator, are lucidly explained and their application demonstrated. Bringing to criticism the verve and humour of his own novels, David Lodge has provided essential reading for students of literature, aspirant writers, and anyone who wishes to understand how literature works."--Publisher's website.

Helen Bradshaw, a junior editor at London magazine GirlTime, struggles to balance an awkward love life, a chaotic apartment, and a sudden family crisis when her father suffers a heart attack.

A satirical detective collection featuring Robert Barr's clever sleuth Eugène Valmont, parodying Sherlock Holmes with wit, mystery, and humorous adventure set in turn‑of‑the‑century London.