Churchill’s original book deal for the war memoirs was worth £555,000; the American book and serial rights were sold for $14 million! Churchill could now live in the manner to which he...

During these ‘wilderness years’, Churchill embarked on a series of books, for which he was offered – and paid – considerable advances, helping to swell the coffers (rapidly absorbed by improvement work on Chartwell). 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 has been said words are the only things which last forever.

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 enjoyed a strong friendship with T. E. Lawrence, also known as Lawrence of Arabia, and was left devastated by his death in 1935. Dr. Warren Dockter offers seven interesting facts about their relationship.

Few people practice what they preach, and no one less so than Mr Bernard Shaw ... He is at once an acquisitive capitalist and a sincere Communist.

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,...

Let him go to hell – as soon as there’s a vacant passage.

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...