Jan Morris

Jan Morris's books have included several concerned with the Victorian Empire: the Pax Britannica trilogy (Heaven's Command, Pax Britannica and Farewell the Trumpets); Spectacle of Empire, about the aesthetics of British imperialism; and Stones of Empire, a study of British architecture in India. She has also written works on Wales, Venice, Oxford, Spain, Manhattan, Hong Kong and Sydney, six volumes of travel essays, two volumes of autobiography and a novel, Last Letters from Hav, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1985. She has also edited The Oxford Book of Oxford and the travel writings of Virginia Woolf.

Jan Morris is an Honorary D.Litt. of the University of Wales and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Many of her books are published by Penguin.