Male : Novelist & Short Story Writer. Lived at Little Chart in Kent 1931-1974

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Rushden, Northamtonshire

Date of Birth : 1905 Date of Death : 1974 Age : 69

Pseudonyms : Flying Officer X

Education : Kettering GS

1926-1930
The Last Bread (1926 Labour Publishing Co) - 1st book. Drama
The Two Sisters (1926 Cape)
The Seekers (1926 John & Edward Bumpus)
The Spring Song & In View of the Fact That - Two Stories (1927 E Archer) - 100 signed
(1927 Lantern Press, SF) - 50 signed
Song for December (1928 PP)
Day's End & Other Stories (1928 Cape) (1928 Viking)
Seven Tales and Alexander (1929 Scholartis Press) - Signed Ltd Ed 950. Only 1000 printed
(1930 NY)
Catherine Foster (1929 Cape) (1929 Viking)
Christmas (1930 PP)
The Hessian Prisoner (1930 Furnival Books) - Signed Ltd Ed 500. John Austen
The Tree : A Story (1930 E Lahr, Blue Moon Booklets)

1931-1935
Mrs Esmond's Life (1931 PP by E Lahr, London) - 50 numbered and signed
A Threshing Day (1931 Foyle, London) - Signed Ltd Ed 300
Charlotte's Row (1931 Cape)
Holly and Sallow : A Poem (1931 Blue Moon Poem, London) - 100 signed
A German Idyll (1932 Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St Lawrence)
- Signed Ltd Ed 307. Lynton Lamb
The Fallow Land (1932 Cape)
Flowers and Faces (1932 Golden Cockerel Press) - 300. John Nash
Signed edition offered for £595 in 1998
The Black Boxer (1932 Cape) (1932 Pharos Editions, London - 100 signed)
Sally Go Round the Moon : A Story (1932 White Owl Press) - Signed Ltd Ed 129
21 MS Edition signed
The Story Without an End and The Country Doctor (1932 White Owl Press) - Signed Ltd Ed 105
MS Edition of 25 signed
The Golden Apricot and Two Other Tales (1933 Golden Cockerel Press)
- 300 signed. Agnes Miller Parker
The Woman who had Imagination & Other Stories (1934 Cape) (1934 Macmillan NY)
Thirty Tales (1934 Cape)
Cut and Come Again : 14 Stories (1935 Cape)
The Duet : A Story (1935 Grayson Books) - 285 signed & numbered
The Poacher (1935 Cape)
Flowers and Faces (1935 Golden Cockerel Press) - Ltd Ed 325. John Nash

1936-1940
Through the Woods (1936 Gollancz) (1936 Macmillan, NY) - Agnes Miller Parker
The House of Women (1936 Cape)
Down the River (1937 Gollancz) (1937 Holt) - Agnes Miller Parker
Something Short and Sweet (1937 Cape)
Country Tales (1938 Readers Union - tissue d/w) (1938 Cape)
Spella Ho (1938) - Edward Ardizzone
My Uncle Silas (1939 Cape) - Edward Ardizzone
The Flying Goat (1939 Cape)
Country Tales (1940 Cape)
The Beauty of the Dead (1940 Cape)
The Seasons and the Gardener (1940 CUP) - C F Tunnicliffe

1941-1943
The Modern Short Story : A Critical Survey (1941 Nelson)
In the Heart of the Country (1942 Country Life)- C F Tunnicliffe
R A F (Editor : War Pictures by British Artists) (1942 OUP)
The Greatest people in the World (1942 Cape) - as Flying Officer X
How Sleep the Brave & Other Stories (1943 Cape 2/6) - as Flying Officer X
(In) Bugle Blast : An Anthology from the Services (Ed by Jack Aistrop & Reginald Moore)
(1943 Allen & Unwin 5/-) - as Flying Officer X
Country Life (1943 Penguin pb)
The Bride comes to Evensford (1943 Cape) - short novel
O More Than Happy Countryman (1943 Country Life) - C F Tunnicliffe

1943-1945
There's Freedom in the Air (1944 HMSO)
Something in the Air (1944 Cape) - as Flying Officer X
Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944 M Joseph)
The Day of Glory : A Play in Three Acts (1945 MJ)

1946-1950
The Tinkers of Elstow (np. 1946 PP) - 300 signed by Author & Randolph Schwabe
The Cruise of the Breadwinner (1946 Michael Joseph) - short story.
d/w designed by Broom Lynne
The Purple Plain (1947 Cape)
[Filmed in 1954]
Thirty One Selected Stories (1947 Cape)
The Jacaranda Tree (1949 MJ)
The Country Heart (1949 MJ) - John Minton
Flower Gardening : A Reader's Guide (1950 CUP pb)
Edward Garnett : A Personal Portrait (1950 Parrish)
The Scarlet Sword (1950 Michael Joseph)
Dear Life (1950)

1951-1960
Colonel Julian & Other Stories (1951 Michael Joseph)
The Country of White Clover (1952 MJ) - 100 signed
Love for Lydia (1952 MJ)
The Face of England (1952 Batsford) - A F Kersting
The Nature of Love (1953)
The Feast of July (1954 MJ)
[Filmed in 1995]
The Daffodil Sky (1955)
Pastoral on Paper (1956 Medway Corrugated Paper Co) - Photos John Gay
The Sleepless Moon (1957)
Sugar for the Horse (1957 MJ) - Ardizzone
Death of a Huntsman (1957)
Dulcima (1958 Penguin)
[Filmed in 1971]
The Darling Buds of May (1958 MJ)
[Filmed in 1958 as "The Mating Game"]
A Breath of French Air (1959 MJ 12/6)
The Watercress Girl & Other Stories (1959 Michael Joseph)
An Aspidistra in Babylon (1960 MJ)
When the Green Woods Laugh (1960 MJ)

1961-1965
The Day of the Tortoise (1961 MJ)
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal & Other Stories (1961 MJ)
The Golden Oriole : Five Novellas (1962 MJ) (1962 Little Brown)
The Crown of Wild Myrtle (1962 MJ)
Achilles and the Donkey (1962 Dobson) - Carol Barker
Achilles and Diana (1963 Dobson) - Carol Barker
Oh! To be in England (1963)
Seven by Five (1963)
The Fabulous Mrs V (1964)
Achilles and the Twins (1964 Dobson) - Carol Barker
A Moment in Time (1964)
The Wedding Party (1965)

AFTER 1966
The Distant Horns of Summer (1967)
The Wild Cherry Tree (1968)
The Four Beauties (1968 Michael Joseph)
The White Admiral (1968 Dennis Dobson) - Peggy Chapman
The Vanishing World : Autobiography Vol 1 (1969 MJ £2.50) - John Ward
A Little of What You Fancy (1970 MJ)
The Triple Echo (1970)
[Filmed in 1972]
A Love of Flowers (1971 MJ)
The Blossoming World (1971) - autobiography. John Ward
The World of Ripeness (1972) - autobiography. John Ward
The Song of the Wren (1972)
Fountain of Flowers (1974 MJ)
The Yellow Meads of Asphodel (1976 MJ)
Sea Days, Sea Flowers (1984 Snake River Press) - Gerald Woods
A Month by the Lake & other stories (1987 New Directions)
[Filmed in 1994]
Elephants Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & other Stories (1989 New Directions, NY)
Give Them Their Life (1990 Evensford) - Lynne Evans
Flying Bombs Over England (1994 Froglets £16.99)