Oh, blimey. Sexy British men tick all our boxes. Looking for more UK-based book boyfriends? XOXO After Dark [1] takes you across the pond for great novels with an accent.
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Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
We're ready to move to Scotland NOW if it means we might, like heroine Claire [3], find love in two centuries — with warrior Jamie in the 1700s and with husband Frank in post-World War II Britain.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
If you didn't quite make it through this novel [4] of manners, money, and marriage when you were assigned it in high school, give it another try. You'll be longing for your own dark-and-brooding-yet-sexy Mr. Darcy to trade verbal barbs with and give you smoldering looks across a candlelit drawing room.
One Day by David Nicholls
Check in with Emma and Dexter on one day [5] (July 15) over many years as their relationship shifts from courtship to hateship, from lovers to friends and more. Dexter is the irresistible cad who'll eventually surprise you.
Bowie by Wendy Leigh
Real-life book boyfriends count too — especially when they're music icons. This intimate (and we do mean intimate) biography [6] of the legendary David Bowie gives a behind-the-scenes look at his life and lovers from his earliest days through the Ziggy Stardust period and up to his settled life with Iman.
Beautiful Stranger by Christina Lauren
Charming British playboy Max [7] is just the guy you wish you could meet in a dance club and have a steamy one-night stand with. (What clubs are these heroines all going to? And can we come, too?)
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
An amazing, unconventional love story [8]. Louisa becomes the caretaker for grumpy young Will, now wheelchair-bound after an accident. We don't want to give too much away, but you'll put your cynicism aside here for an amazing love story.
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
If he was good enough for Jane Austen, surely a second helping [9] of Darcy can't be wrong? Mark Darcy is the dependable good guy Bridget doesn't know is perfect for her — until she's worked caddish Daniel out of her system, that is.
Naked in Death by J.D. Robb
Eve Dallas is a hard-bitten cop in this futuristic series by romance megastar Nora Roberts — but she's met her match in Roarke, a rogueish billionaire in the young Gabriel Byrne mold. Even though he's Irish, not English, he was just too sexy to leave off this list! Naked in Death [10] is the first of a long-running series that now numbers nearly 40 books.
The Unidentified Redhead by Alice Clayton
At 33, Grace knows she's a little old to be just starting out in LA, but she's determined to be a working actress. That determination is tested when she finds herself in a whirlwind affair [11] with Hollywood darling Jack Hamilton, 10 years her junior, devastatingly handsome, and with a British accent to boot . . .