If it goes without saying that the British Empire is a great setting for tales of adventure and derring-do (and it should), then it must als...

There's one very good reason why I have not yet tackled reviewing the Wells/Verne oeuvre of 19th century early science fiction, and it...

As a child, I knew that when a bunch of well-educated men in old-fashioned dress got together in their 'club' (whatever that was) a...

( Note: For my overview of the Flashman series, click here ) The wild west has always been of the classic stock settings for tales of high ...

I owe a little something to Peter Lamont. For years I have been fascinated by the Victorians' tendency to portray Eastern cultures as be...

The great British public have always loved a good failure- Scott, Shackleton and Oates (to name several Antarctic-related examples) all beca...

One to file in the 'I Can't Believe Somebody Actually Wrote This' category (alongside that study of the films of Steven Segal, S...