‘Get up, you filthy Hun!’ SIMON MATTHEWS watches a 1941 classic war movie. Continue reading
Tag Archives: The Four Feathers
Imperial fiction: Golden Age detection 2
ALWYN TURNER reads some stories about Lord Peter Wimsey. 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: Richard Hannay
ALWYN TURNER celebrates John Buchan’s most famous character. 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.
Imperial fiction: The Half-Hearted
ALWYN TURNER reads John Buchan’s first thriller from 1900. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Boy
ALWYN TURNER reads Marie Corelli’s forgotten Boer War fable from 1900. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Beau Geste
ALWYN TURNER on PC Wren’s 1924 tale of the French Foreign Legion. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: The Four Feathers
ALWYN TURNER on AEW Mason’s classic adventure novel from 1902. Continue reading
‘Elephantinely elfish’: Monsieur Hanuad
ALWYN TURNER on A.E.W. Mason’s detective, the inspiration for Hercule Poirot. Continue reading
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