The Telegraph's Anita Singh wrote that the strength of Shogun "is the way it immerses us in a world that, with its rituals and violence, feels as foreign to us as it does to Blackthorne.

This is the entirety of the Shogun book, written by James Clavell in 1975, so any future continuation of that would have to be invented from scratch. That is almost certainly not going to happen.

Clavell wrote a total of six books in his “Asian Saga”, and Marks ... The inspiration for Toranaga, the all-powerful Tokugawa Ieyasu, became shogun in 1603, after the Battle of Sekigahara ...

Drawing from Clavell’s experience fighting in World War Two and being a prisoner of war, Shogun is the third book in the cult author’s expansive Asian Saga series. If you’re binging the show ...