An Index to Nigel Balchin's books

Mark Spade

Title	Publisher	Date
How To Run A Bassoon Factory	Hamish Hamilton	1934
Business for Pleasure	Hamish Hamilton	1935
Fun & games - How to win at everything	Hamish Hamilton	1936
How to Run a Bassoon Factory and Business for Pleasure	Hamish Hamilton	1954

Nigel Balchin

Title	Publisher	Date
No Sky	Hamish Hamilton	1934
Simple Life	Hamish Hamilton	1935
Income & Outcome	Hamish Hamilton	1936
Lightbody on Liberty	Collins	1936
Darkness falls from the Air	Collins	1942
The Small Back Room	Collins	1943
An Inventory on Inventors, in Lilliput Magazine (also in The Bedside Lilliput 1950)	Hutton Press	1944
Mine Own Executioner	Collins	1945
The Salamander, in The Illustrated London News Christmas 1945	The Illustrated London News & Sketch Ltd	1945
Lord I was Afraid	Collins	1947
Scientists in a Hurry, in Lilliput magazine Issue No 126	Hulton Press	1947
The Borgia Testament	Collins	1948
A Sort of Traitors	Collins	1949
The Anatomy of Villainy	Collins	1950
A Way Through the Wood	Collins	1951
The Tinfield Mascot, in The Pick of Today's Short Stories (Third Series) (also in Lilliput magazine Apr/May 1951)	Oldham Press - London (intro by John Pudney)	1952
Among Friends, in Lilliput magazine Issue No 179 (from Last Recollections of my Uncle Charles)	Hulton Press	1952
Sundry Creditors	Collins	1953
Last Recollections of my Uncle Charles	Collins	1954
The Fall of the Sparrow	Collins	1955
Dover Incident, in Did It Happen?	Oldbourne	1956
Seen Dimly Before Dawn	Collins	1962
Fatal Fascination	Hutchinson	1964
In the Absence of Mrs. Peterson	Collins	1966
Kings of Infinite Space	Collins	1967
Separate Lies, originally published as A Way Through the Wood	Phoenix	2005

Nigel Balchin - Other works

Title	Publisher	Date
Pobottle on Publicity and other stories (1st Series), originally appeared in The Aeroplane magazine.	Heavy Duty Alloys Ltd	1936
Keeping the Peace, in Time and Tide		Oct 1936
The Next Song will be a Dance, in Night and Day		15 July 1937
Trotsky or Notsky, in Night and Day		19 Aug 1937
Hautboys & torches, Little fleas have lesser fleas ..', How to run a bassoon factory, and Business for pleasure, in The Laughter Omnibus taken from Punch	Faber & Faber	1937
To Whom it May Concern, and The Morbid Psychology of the Made-Up Tie, (both in The Pick of Punch - An Annual Selection)	Chatto & Windus	1938
Peril in the Sand, in John Bull (from The Small Back Room)		Apr 1945
The Aircraft Builders	HMSO	1947
An Alphabet of Literary Prejudice, in The Windmill (Vol 2)		1947
Satisfactions in Work, in Occupational Psychology (Vol 21) (subsequently in The Free Mind in 2 parts 1947/48)		July 1947
The Uses of Criticism, in The Listener	Transcript of a radio broadcast	Oct 1947
Notes on the Way. in Time and Tide		1947 & 1949
The Nature of Incentives, in The Nineteenth Century and After		Nov 1948
A Sort of Traitors, serialised in John Bull		1949
Writing in Pictures, in Diversion	Max Parrish - London (ed.John Sutro)	1950
Death held the Stopwatch, in Readers Digest (from The Small Back Room)		Mar 1950
The Dastardly Behaviour of Mr. Fawkes, in Argosy (UK)		Dec 1950
The Private Gentleman, in This Britain (listed in the Contents list as The Amateurs)	MacDonald (ed. Newton Branch)	1951
A Way Through the Wood, serialised in Woman's Own		1951
The Phantom Gardener, in London Express (also in The Saint Mystery Magazine Vol 10 No 10 Dec 1964)		1952
Heir and Heiress, in Woman's Own magazine		March 1953
A Game of Patience, in Argosy (UK)		Sept 1954
Foreword, in the second edition of David Footman's novel Pig and Pepper	David Verschoyle	1954
The Worker in Modern Industry	Institute of Personnel Management	1954
The Country Wench, in Argosy (UK) (from Last Recollections of my Uncle Charles)		Jul 1955
To whom it may concern in Punch Digest	Corgi Books	1957
The Enthusiast, in Best Motoring Stories (from Last Recollections of my Uncle Charles)	Faber & Faber	1959
Creative Talent in Harness, in The Times		Oct 1962
Gentle Counsels, in Breath of Danger (from Last Recollections of my Uncle Charles)	Oldham Books (ed. Eric Duthie)	1966
Preface to Lucrezia Borgia A Study by Joan Haslip	Heron Books	1968
Introduction, and Forgetful Man (aka The Forgetful Man from Last Recollections of my Uncle Charles), in Argosy (UK)		Feb 1969
Richard III, in British History Illustrated Vol 1 No 6 (from The Anatomy of Villainy)		1975
Judge Jeffreys, in British History Illustrated Vol 1 No 7 (from The Anatomy of Villainy)		1975
Guy Fawkes, in British History Illustrated Vol 1 No 9 (from The Anatomy of Villainy)		1975

Nigel Balchin - Published in US

Title	Publisher	Date
A Dress Rehearsal, in Christian Science Monitor (extract from No Sky)		Mar 1935
Man in Space, in Esquire magazine Vol 25 No 6 (from Mine Own Executioner)		June 1946
Now We Are Broke, My Dear, in the Saturday Evening Post (revised from The Bars of the Cage from Last Recollections of my Uncle Charles)	Random House - New York	8 July 1950
Private Interests (aka Sundry Creditors)	Houghton Mifflin Boston	1953
Who is my Neighbor? (aka A Sort of Traitors)
The Wallet, in Good Housekeeping (aka The Forgetful Man) (from Last Recollections of my Uncle Charles)	The Hearst Corporation	1953
Patience, in Good Housekeeping (from Last Recollections of my Uncle Charles)	The Hearst Corporation	Feb 1954
The Enthusiast, in Esquire magazine (from Last Recollections of my Uncle Charles)		June 1955
God & the machine, in Fantasia Mathematica (from Last Recollections of my Uncle Charles)	Simon & Schuster (ed. Clifton Fadiman)	1958
Cabinet Decision, in The Armchair Science Reader (from Who is my Neighbour)	Simon & Schuster (ed. Isabel S Gordon and Sophie Sorkin)	1958
The Master, in In The Dead Of Night (from Last Recollections of my Uncle Charles)	Anthony Gibbs & Phillips	1961
Fatal Fascination	Little, Brown & Co Boston	1964
Children are a waste of time, in The Saturday Evening Post		Oct 1965

Nigel Balchin - Plays

Title	Publisher	Date
Power		1935
Peace in Our Time		1936
Miserable Sinners		1937
Profit and Loss		1938
Fame is the Spur		1947
Mine Own Executioner
Mandy		1952
The Malta Story	United Artists	1953
Josephine & Men, adaptation of Among Friends (from Last Recollections of my Uncle Charles)		1955
23 paces to Baker Street		1955
The Man who Never Was		1955
The Leader of the House	Radio/TV then stage (1960)	1955
The Blue Angel
Suspect
Circle of Deception
Barabass
The Singer not the Story
The Barbarian & The Geisha (not credited)	20th Century Fox	1958
The Hatchet Man	Written for TV	1962
Cleopatra
Better Dead	Anglia TV	1969
Separate Lies (based on A Way Through The Wood)	Fox Searchlight Pictures	2005
Nigel Balchin - Radio broadcasts
Title	Programme	Date
The Service of Miss Eyles	Regional	1935
The Small Back Room	Third Programme	1948
Mine Own Executioner	Light Programme	1951
The Master		1951
The Leader of the House	Home Service	1955
Waiting for Gillian	Home Service (rpt)	1955
A Sort of Traitors	Light Programme	1955
Mine Own Executioner	Book at Bedtime	1963
A Sort of Traitors (extracts from)		1965
Last Recollections of my Uncle Charles	Woman's Hour	1971
Uncle Charles (The Forgetful Man)	Radio 4	1973
Uncle Charles (Gentle Counsels)	Radio 4	1973
Uncle Charles (Patience)	Radio 4	1973
The Fall of the Sparrow	Woman's Hour	1984
Nigel Balchin - TV plays etc
Title	Programme	Date
Waiting for Gillian (stage adaptation of A Way Through The Wood)		1954
The Small Back Room	BBC	1959
Mine Own Executioner	BBC	1959
The Fall of the Sparrow (Play of the Week)	Rediffusion, Channel 9, London	1965
Uncle Charles	Rediffusion, Channel 9, London	1968
The list of Nigel Balchin's works above has been compiled from many sources and is still being updated (thanks to Derek Collett for recent additions). We would very much like to hear from anyone who is able to add to the list.