The spy who came in from the circus

The dandy’s role as icon and irritant

Unlike most World War Two veterans who immortalised themselves in print, Eric Williams was no “one-book wonder”, instead producing two bestselling novels based on a mere 10 months as a prisoner of war

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Bourgeois chronicler of multicultural London who tended to deify black foreigners and demonise native whites

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

Mark Twain and the making of an American literary revolution