Yakub Beg is a secondary character in the novel Flashman at the Charge, published in 1973. Demetrius Charles Boulger, The life of Yakoob Beg; Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar, London: Wm.H. Allen & Co., 1878 (From the Open Library) A fictionalization of Yakub Beg's life appears in the novel Tales of Inner Asia by Todd Gibson