H.G. Wells publishes his science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds, in which Martians arrive in a rocket to invade earth

Henry James publishes The Turn of the Screw in a collection of short stories

E. Nesbit publishes The Story of the Treasure Seekers, introducing the Bastable family who feature in several of her books for children

Joseph Conrad publishes his novel Lord Jim about a life of failure and redemption in the far East

Beatrix Potter publishes at her own expense The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Rudyard Kipling's experiences of India are put to good use in his novel Kim

Rudyard Kipling publishes his Just So Stories for Little Children

The play Cathleen ni Houlihan, by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, fosters Irish nationalism

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is published commercially, a year after being first printed by Beatrix Potter at her own expense

John Masefield's poem 'Sea Fever' is published in Salt-Water Ballads

Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles begins publication in serial form

Henry James publishes the first of his three last novels, The Wings of the Dove

Joseph Conrad publishes a collection of stories including Heart of Darkness, a sinister tale based partly on his own journey up the Congo

Erskine Childers has a best-seller in The Riddle of the Sands, a thriller about a planned German invasion of Britain

Henry James publishes The Ambassadors, the second of his three last novels written in rapid succession

British philosopher G.E. Moore publishes Principia Ethica, an attempt to apply logic to ethics

Joseph Conrad publishes his novel Nostromo, about a revolution in South America and a fatal horde of silver

Henry James publishes his last completed novel, The Golden Bowl

J.M Barrie's play for children Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up has its premiere in London

Under the pseudonym Saki, H.H. Munro publishes Reginald, his first volume of short stories

The Bloomsbury Group gathers for informal evenings at the family home of Virginia and Vanessa Stephens (later Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell)

Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, a letter of recrimination written in Reading Gaol to Lord Alfred Douglas, is published posthumously

H.G. Wells publishes Kipps: the story of a simple soul, a comic novel about a bumbling draper's assistant

Bernard Shaw has two new plays opening in London in the same year, Major Barbara and Man and Superman

Sir Percy Blakeney rescues aristocrats from the guillotine in Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel