Churchill’s life-long commitment to and mastery of the written and spoken word was recognised when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 He was in Bermuda when the...

Churchill also produced a final volume of The World Crisis, dealing with the Eastern Front, in 1931 and, in 1932, signed a contract with a healthy advance of £20,000 (not inconsiderable,...

It’s worth knowing, though, that many quotes that people think are Churchill’s aren’t in fact his; many are incorrectly attributed to him probably because they ‘sound too good to be by...

You can search our ‘shop’ to look for books by Churchill, but here’s a checklist of all his key books The books published in the final couple of years of Churchill’s life,...

Shortly after leaving office he began his biography of his illustrious ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough which was published in four volumes between 1933 and 1938 (it was originally published...

While in India with his regiment in the late 1890s, Churchill had read voraciously; making up for his lack of university education, he devoured works by Plato, Adam Smith, Darwin –...

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It’s not often remembered that Churchill was a writer of fiction – Savrola is easily forgotten – but he did write various counterfactual history – or fantasy – stories Read...