ALWYN TURNER on the first appearance of the Daleks in 1963. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Arthur Conan Doyle
‘This is no time for football’
Football has been criticised for its response to COVID-19 but PAUL SAFFER finds an echo from a global crisis a century ago. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: A Prince of Swindlers
Private detective? Secret identity? Take two cliches into the shower? ALWYN TURNER on Guy Boothby’s character Simon Crane. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Dr Nikola
ALWYN TURNER encounters Guy Boothby’s evil mastermind from the 1890s. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Prof. Challenger
Conan Doyle’s great science-fiction adventurer is celebrated by ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Brigadier Gerard
ALWYN TURNER on Conan Doyle’s Napoleonic hero: ‘all spurs and moustaches’. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: John Silence
ALWYN TURNER has an appointment with Algernon Blackwood’s psychic doctor to discuss a case of reefer madness. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: The Madonna of the Barricades
Karl Marx, Madame Tussaud & Paris in 1848? It must be a novel by the editor of the Spectator, says ALWYN TURNER.
F. Anstey and the original Dorian Gray
ALWYN TURNER on the Victorian humourist who inspired Oscar Wilde. Continue reading