Robert Eaglestone

Man reads gothic novel The Monk aloud in a toilet, 1802-4. Rijksmuseum. Public Domain.

‘A History of the Novel in Britain’ by Philip Hensher review

Philip Hensher’s A History of the Novel in Britain is certainly novel but how does it fare as history?

Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe in Sharpe's Rifles, 1993

Waterloo in Fiction: A Tale of Two Sharp(e)s

Literary responses to the battle help us understand its place in cultural memory.