"If you're an Indian reading this book in English, it's probably because of Thomas Macaulay, " says the front cover blurb on a new biography of a man who foisted the Queen's language on India.

BBC: Recalling Thomas Macaulay's English legacy

The most obvious flaw is the ardent young man, Tom Fennel, an Englishman in Maugham's book but now an American played, perfunctorily, by an English actor named Shaun Evans.

WSJ: All About Annette

This was pointed out as long ago as the 17th century by John Donne, an English poet and divine, who wrote an entire book on suicide.

ECONOMIST: Let death be my dominion

Author Edmund White called it "the best book on gay life yet written by an English author".

BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Hollinghurst's rise to Booker glory

Coming soon: a book, a web tv and a theatrical performance, with an English version for international audiences.

FORBES: MySmark: Giving Brands Emotional, Real-Time Feedback

Indeed, as financial historian Niall Ferguson observed in his book The Ascent Of Money, English speaking peoples already have an obsession with property, with or without tax breaks.

FORBES: To Reduce Taxes, We Must Abolish Our Tax Breaks

This book, which has yet to be published in English, became an unexpected bestseller in Poland after it was read in full on the radio in January.

ECONOMIST: Memoirs

Even so, I got a book flung at me for talking in class by our inspirational English teacher, an ex-army man.

FORBES: Hippie Educationalists and Libertarians

Although few details of the book's creation are known, it is generally believed to have been the work of an English bookseller, publisher, journalist, and staunch antipapist named Benjamin Harris, who fled London for Boston in 1686 following the ascent of King James II to the British throne.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Minders of Make-Believe'