The English novel is an important part of English literature.

This article mainly concerns novels, written in English, by novelists who were
born or have spent a significant part of their lives in England, or Scotland, or Wales, or Northern Ireland (or Ireland before 1922). However,
given the nature of the subject, this guideline has been applied with common sense, and reference is made to novels in other languages or
novelists who are not primarily Britishwhere appropriate