ALWYN TURNER enjoys Agatha Christie’s anti-communist action thriller. Continue reading
Tag Archives: imperial fiction
Imperial fiction: Bindle
ALWYN TURNER on a home-front comedy from the Great War. 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 Power-House
ALWYN TURNER on John Buchan’s first classic, the book that introduced Edward Leithen in 1913. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Mr Clutterbuck’s Election
Hilaire Belloc’s political satire from 1908 still works, says ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: The Half-Hearted
ALWYN TURNER reads John Buchan’s first thriller from 1900. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Penny Plain
ALWYN TURNER on a 1920 novel by Anna Buchan, aka O. Douglas. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Jim Maitland
ALWYN TURNER goes back to 1923 to read about Sapper’s other great hero. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Sanders of the River
ALWYN TURNER on Edgar Wallace’s cynical tales of colonial administration from 1911. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Huntingtower
Is this 1922 novel John Buchan’s best thriller? ALWYN TURNER thinks so. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Lower than Vermin
ALWYN TURNER on Dornford Yates (beloved of both Michael Gove and Mark Gatiss) and his 1950 novel of lost England. Continue reading
