"The Masters" and "The New Men" are both important novels in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers sequence. The former focuses on power struggles inside a Cambridge college, while the latter explores the relationship between scientists and the state around nuclear research. Together they examine modern institutions from the inside through clashes between knowledge and power, ethics and politics.

Power and ethics collide in two closed worlds: a university college and a research establishment.

A biography of Warren Hastings that examines the politics and administration of the East India Company era. It lays out the decisions, controversies, and political background surrounding colonial policy.

Judgments and conflicts at the center of colonial rule emerge through Hastings' life.