The long shadow of the Boer War
As Victoria's soldiers fought in South Africa, some of the era's best known authors reported home. Their writing shaped…
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Andrew Glazzard
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How HG Wells invented the modern world
Wells was a prolific and visionary writer – but his major legacy is political.
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Klaus Fuchs: a spy for the atomic age
How “the most dangerous spy in history” made his name.
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How Rudyard Kipling became a master of imperial gothic
Kipling is associated with sentimental children’s fiction or tub-thumping racism, but his best fiction captures the horrors of empire, acted…
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The Dawn Watch: a look at Joseph Conrad as a prophet of globalisation
Maya Jasanoff offers a compelling examination of the great novellist's life and work.
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Espionage thriller Munich explores the ethics of information
Author Robert Harris should know that less is more.
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The Victorian jihadis: how Kipling and Conan Doyle shaped our Islamist fears
Did popular authors write Islamic State into existence?
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Why thriller writers love to imagine Britain being invaded by Nazis
Len Deighton’s SS-GB and the lure of alternate histories.
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