Recommended Student Reading
Want to know more about the United Kingdom before you arrive? We think that’s a great idea. Check out the suggested reading below.
Recommended Reading before Studying Abroad
- Milton Bennett (Ed), Milton Bennett (Ed), Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication (Intercultural Press: 1998)
- Craig Storti, The Art of Crossing Cultures (Nicholas Brealey Publishing: 2001)
- William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick, The Ugly American (WW Norton & Company: 1958)
- Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden Turner, Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business (Nicholas Brealey Publishing: 1997)
Recommended Reading for the UK
Language, Society & Culture
- Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island (McClelland & Stewart: 1996)
- Christopher Davies, Divided by a Common Language (Houghton Mifflin Co.: 2005)
- Kate Fox, Watching the English (Hodder: 2005)
- Shappi Khorsandi, A Beginners Guide to Acting English (Memoir Ebury Press: 2009)
- Kenneth O. Morgan, The Oxford History of Britain (Oxford: 2001)
- Jeremy Paxman, The English (Penguin Books: 1999)
- Raymond Seitz, Over Here (Phoenix: 1998)
- Terry Tan, Culture Shock! Britain: a Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Kuperard: 1994)
- Jane Walmsley, Brit-think, Ameri-think (Penguin Group: 2003)
Education & Social Policy
- Paul Trowler and Peter Alcock, Education Policy: a Policy Sociology Approach (Gildredge Social Policy: 1998)
- Paul Willis, Learning to Labour: How Working-Class Kids Get Working-Class Jobs (Saxon House: 1977)
London History & Culture
- Peter Ackroyd, London: The Biography (Chatto: 2000)
- Christopher Hitchens, Blood, Class and Nostalgia: Anglo/American Ironies (Vintage: 1991)
- Ian Sinclair, London: City of Disappearances (Hamish Hamilton: 2006)
Other Works on London
- Julian Hunt (Ed), London’s Environment: Prospects for a Sustainable World City (Imperial College Press: 2005)
- Roy Porter, London, A Social History (Hamish Hamilton: 1994)
- Sukhdev Sandhu, London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City (Harper Collins 2003)
- Anne Saunders, Art and Architecture of London (Phaidon: 1996)
- Iain Sinclair, Lights out for the Territory; Nine Excursions in the Secret History of London (Granta Books: 1997)
Works of Fiction
- Monica Ali, Brick Lane (Doubleday: 2003)
- Martin Amis, London Fields (Vintage: 1999)
- Edward Rutherford, London: The Novel (Ballantine: 1998)
- Zadie Smith, White Teeth (Penguin: 2000)