Never remind readers of your book of another, better book, and especially never remind them of Foucault's Pendulum , the book that d...

Memory can be a strange thing.  As a kid in school, Consider Phlebas , the first of the Culture novels by the Scottish Iain M. Banks...

Bringing up the Irish contingent in the Victorian ghost story sub-genre is Sheridan Le Fanu. He's a well-known writer of early spook sto...

Man, it’s good to come back to Flashman. After a period of trying to broaden my palate with other popular historical fiction writers of vary...

Well, this is a change. After plodding through the meticulously recreated (in military terms at least) 19 th -century of the Sharpe books,...

In empire-set fiction, a classic set-up for European folks living in exotic climes is to have the main characters be missionaries. Missionar...

As I've noted before, Cornwell's famous Sharpe novels seem to me to exist in a bit of a cultural and historical vacuum. The author ...