1923-1930
The Conquered (1923 Cape)
When the Bough Breaks & Other Stories (1924 Cape)
Cloud Cuckoo Land (1925 Cape)
The Laburnum Branch : Poems (1926 Cape)
Anna Commena (1928 Gerald Howe)
Black Sparta : Greek Stories (1928 Cape)
Nix-Nought-Nothing : Four Plays for Children (1928 Cape)
Barbarian Stories (1929 Cape)
The Hostages & Other Stories for Boys & Girls (1930 Cape)
Comments on Birth Control (1930 Faber : Criterion Miscellany No 12)
1931-1935
Boys and Girls and Gods (1931 Watts)
Kate Crackerbuts : a Fairy Play for Children (1931 PP by Aldan Press, Oxford)
- 300 signed/numbered
The Corn King and the Spring Queen (1931 Cape)
- Z Stryjenska
The Price of Freedom (1931 Cape)
- play, with Lewis Gielgud
The Powers of Light (nd. 1932 Pharos, London)
- Eric Kennington
(Ed)
An Outline for Boys & Girls and Their Parents (1932 Gollancz)
The Delicate Fire : Short Stories & Poems (1933 Cape)
Naomi Mitchison's Vienna Diary (1934 Gollancz)
The Home and a Changing Civilization (1934 John Lane, Bodley Head)
We Have Been Warned (1935 Constable)
Beyond This Limit (1935 Cape)
1936-1940
The Fourth Pig (1936 Constable)
An End and a Beginning & Other Plays (1937 Constable)
Socrates (1937 Hogarth Press)
- with Richard Crossman
The Moral Basis of Politics (1938 Constable)
The Alban Goes Out : 1939 - Poem (1939 Raven Press, Harrow)
- Gertrude Hermes engravings
As it Was in the Beginning (1939 Cape)
play with Lewis Gielgud
The Blood of the Martyrs (1939 Constable)
The Kingdom of Heaven (1939 Heinemann)
Historical Plays for Schools : 2nd Series (1939 Constable)
1941-1950
(Ed)
Re-Educating Scotland (1944 Scottish Convention, Glasgow)
The Bull Calves (1947 Cape)
- Louise Annand
Nix-Nought-Nothing and Elfin Hill : Two Plays for Children (1948 Cape)
Men and Herring : A Documentary (1949 Serif Books,
Edinburgh)
- with Denis Macintosh
The Big House (1950 Faber)
1951-1955
Spindrift (1951 French)
- play with Denis Macintosh
Lobsters on the Agenda (1952 Gollancz)
Travel Light (1952 Faber)
Graeme and the Dragon (1954 Faber)
- Pauline Baynes
The Swan's Road (1954 Naldrett Press, London 12/6)
- Leonard Huskinson
Highlands and Islands (1954 Unity Publishing, Glasgow)
To the Chapel Perilous (1955 Allen & Unwin)
The Land the Ravens Found (1955 Collins)
-Brian Allderidge
1956-1960
Little Boxes (1956 Faber)
- Louise Annand
Behold Your King (1957 Muller)
Five Men and a Swan (1957 Allen & Unwin)
The Far Harbour (1957 Collins)
- Martin Thomas
Other People's Worlds (1958 Secker & Warburg)
Judy and Lakshmi (1959 Collins)
- Avinash Chandra
A Fishing Village on the Clyde (1960 OUP)
- with George Paterson
The Rib of the Green Umbrella (1960 Collins)
- Edward Ardizzone
The Young Alexander the Great (1960 Max Parrish)
1961-1965
Karensgaard : The Story of a Danish Farm (1961 Collins)
- with photographs
Presenting Other People's Children (1961 Hamlyn)
Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962 Gollancz)
The Young Alfred the Great (1962 Max Parrish)
(Ed)
What the Human Race is Up To (1962 Gollancz)
The Fairy Who Couldn't Tell a Lie (1963 Collins)
- June Paton
Alexander the Great (1964 Longman)
- Rosemary Grimber
Henry and Crispies (1964 Dept of Education, NZ)
A Mochudi Family (1965 No Publisher, Wellington)
Ketse and the Chief (1965 Nelson)
When we Become Men (1965 Collins)
1966-1970
Return to Fairy Hill (1966 Heinemann 35/-)
Friends and Enemies (1966 Collins)
- Caroline Sassoon
The Big Surprise (1967 Kaye & Ward)
Hughland Holiday (1967 Dept of Education, NZ)
African Heroes (1968 Bodley Head)
- William Stobbs
Don't Look Back (1969 Kaye & Ward)
- Laszlo Acs
The Family at Ditlabeng (1969 Collins)
- Joanna Stubbs
The Africans (1970 Blond)
Sun and Moon (1970 Bodley Head)
- Patricia Frost
1971-1975
Cleopatra's People (1972 Heinemann)
The Danish teapot (1973 Kaye & Ward)
A Life for Africa : Bram Fischer (1973 Merlin Press, London)
Small Talk : Memories of an Edwardian Childhood (1973 Bodley Head)
Solution Three (1973 Dennis Dobson)
Sunrise Tomorrow : A Story of Botswana (1973 Collins)
Oil for the Highlands ? (1974 Fabian Society)
All Change Here : Girlhood and Marriage (1975 Bodley Head £3)
1976- 1980
Snake (1976 Collins)
- Polly Loxton
The Little Sister (1976 OUP, South Africa)
The Wild Dogs (1976 OUP, South Africa)
The Brave Nurse & Other Stories (1977 OUP, South Africa)
Sittichkeit (1977 Birkbeck College, London)
The Cleansing of the Knife and Other Poems (1978 Canongate)
The Two Magicians (1978 Dobson)
- with G R Mitchison. Danita Laskewska
You May Well Ask : A Memoir 1920-1940 (1979 Gollancz)
The Vegetable War (1980 Hamish Hamilton)
- Polly Loxton
Images of Africa (1980 Canongate)
The Sea Horse (1980 Hamish Hamilton)
1981-1985
Mucking Around : Five Continents over 50 Years (1981 Gollancz)
Margaret Cole 1883-1980 (1982 Fabian Society)
What Do You Think of Yourself ? (1982 Paul Harris,
Edinburgh)
Not by Bread Alone (1983 M Boyars)
Among You Taking Notes : Wartime Diary 1939-145 (1985 Gollancz)
1986 ONWARDS
Beyond This Limit : Selected Shorter Fiction (1986 Scottish Academic Press)
Saltire Self-Portraits 2 (1986 Saltire Society,
Edinburgh)
Early in Orcadia (1987 Richard Drew, Glasgow)
- pb
A Girl Must Live : Stories and Poems (1990 Richard Drew, Glasgow)
The Oath Takers (1991 Balnain Books, Nairn)
Sea Green Ribbons (1991 Balnain)
READING
Jill Benton : Naomi Mitchison - A Biography (1990 Pandora Press)
Jenni Calder : The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison (1997 Virago £20)