Male : Novelist, Biographer, Essayist & critic. Captain in Royal Marines in WW1 and became Director of the Aegean Intelligence Service. Married Faith Stone in 1905, Christina MacSween in 1962 & her sister Lilian MacSween in 1965. For many years lived on the Isle of Barra, where he is buried.

Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : West Hartlepool, Cleveland

Date of Birth : 1883 Date of Death : 1972 Age : 89

Pseudonyms : Edward Montague Compton

Other Work : Helped found the Scottish Nationalist Party

Education : St Paul's School & Magdalen College, Oxford (History)

1907-1910
The Gentleman in Grey (1907) - 1st book ? Not listed
Poems (1907 Blackwell, Oxford)

1911-1915
The Passionate Elopment (1911 Martin Secker)
Carnival (1912 MS)
[Filmed in 1946]
Kensington Rhymes (1912 MS) - J R Monsell
Sinister Street : Vol 1 (1913 MS)
Sinister Street : Vol 2 (1914 MS)
Guy and Pauline (1915 Marton Secker)

1916-1920
The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (1919 MS)
[Filmed in 1935 as "Sylvia Scarlett"]
Sylvia and Michael (1919 MS)
Poor Relations (1919 MS)
The Vanity Girl (1920 Cassell 8/6)

1921-1925
Rich Relatives (1921 MS)
The Altar Steps (1922 Cassell)
The Seven Ages of Woman (1923 MS)
Gramophone Nights (1923 Heinemann)
The Parson's Progress (1923 Cassell)
The Old Men of the Sea (1924 Cassell) (later "Paradise for Sale")
Santa Claus in Summer (1924 Constable) - A H Watson
The Heavenly Ladder (1924 Cassell)
Coral (1925 Cassell)

1926-1930
Fairy Gold (1926 Cassell)
Vestal Fire (1927 Cassell)
Rogues and Vagabonds (1927 Cassell)
Extremes Meet (1928 Cassell)
The Unpleasant Visitors (1928) - Sheila Dunn
Extraordinary Women (1928 Secker)
[This maliciously satirical novel about lesbians was published two months after
Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loniliness" which gave it extraordinary sales,
altho the figure 2000 copies has been mentioned.]
The Three Couriers (1929 Cassell)
Gallipoli Memories (1929 Cassell)
April Fools (1930 Cassell)
The Book of Nursery Tales (c1930 Warne) - H M Brock
Told (1930 Basil Blackwell) - childrens ss

1931-1935
Buttercups and Daisies (1931 Cassell) - Bawden d/w
First Athenian Memories (1931 Cassell) (later "Athenian Memories")
Our Street (1931 Cassell)
Greek Memories (1932 Cassell)
Unconsidered Trifles (1932 Secker)
Prince Charlie (1932 Peter Davies)
Reaped and Bound (1933 Martin Secker)
The Lost Cause (1933 Oliver & Boyd) - play
Water on the Brain (1933 Cassell)
Literature in My Time (1933 Rich & Cowan)
The Darkening Green (1934 Cassell)
Prince Charlie and His Ladies (1934 Cassell)
Marathon and Salamis (1934 Peter Davies)

1936-1940
Catholicism and Scotland (1936 Routledge)
Figure of Eight (1936 Cassell)
The East Wind of Love (1937 Rich & Cowan)
Pericles (1937 Hodder & Stoughton)
The South Wind of Love (1937 Rich & Cowan)
The Windsor Tapestry : Being a Study of the Life, Heritage & Abdication of HRH The Duke of Windsor
(1938 Rich & Cowan 16/-)
A Musical Chair (1939 Chatto & Windus)
The Conceited Doll (c1939 Basil Blackwell, Oxford) - A H Watson
Greek Memories (1939 Cassell. Revised Ed) - suppressed when 1st publ in 1932
Aegean Memories (1940 C & W)
The West Wind of Love (1940 C & W)

1941-1945
The Red Tapeworm (1941 C & W)
The Monarch of the Glen (1941 C & W)
West to North (1941 C & W) - vol 2 of The West Wind of Love
Calvary (1942 John Lane) - with Faith Compton Mackenzie
Wind of Freedom (1943 Chatto & Windus)
Mr Roosevelt : A Biography (1943 Harrap)
Keep the Home Guard Turning (1943 C & W)
The North Wind of Love (1944-5 C & W 10/6 each) - 2 vols

1946-1950
Dr Benes : A Biography (1946 Harrap)
The Vital Flame (1947 British Gas Council)
Whisky Galore (1947 C & W)
[Set on the island of Eriskay in the Hebrides, it was filmed in 1948, and again in 1952 as "Laxdale Hall"]
All Over the Place : 50,000 Miles by Sea, Air, Road & Rail (1948 C & W)
Hunting the Fairies (1949 C & W)

1951-1955
The House of Coalport 1750-1950 (1951 Collins)
Sublime Tobacco (1951 C & W)
I Took a Journey (1951 Naldrett Press)
Eastern Epic (1951 C & W) - a History of the Indian Army
The Rival Monster (1952 C & W)
The Savoy of London (1953 Harrap) 12/6
The Queen's House (1953 Hutchinson)
Ben Nevis Goes East (1954 C & W)
Realms of Silver (1954 Routledge & Kegan Paul)
Echoes (1954 C & W) - collected broadcasts
My Record of Music (1955 Hutchinson)

1956-1960
Thin Ice (1956 C & W 13/6)
Rockets Galore (1957 C & W)
[Filmed in 1958]
Sublime Tobacco (1957 London)
The Lunatic Republic (1959 C & W)
Cat's Company (1960 Elek Books)
Greece in My Life (1960 C & W)

1961-1965
Catmint (1961 Barrie & Rockliffe)
Mezzotint : A Novel (1961 C & W)
On Moral Courage (1962 Collins)
My Life and Times : Octave One 1883-1891 (1963 Chatto & Windus 30/-)
My Life and Times : Octave Two (1964 C & W)
My Life and Times : Octave Three (1964 C & W)
My Life and Times : Octave Four (1965 C & W)
The Stolen Soprano (1965 C & W)
Little Cat Lost (1965 Barrie & Rockliff) - James Boswell

1966-1971
My Life and Times : Octave Five (1966 C & W)
Paper Lives (1966 C & W)
My Life and Times : Octave Six (1967 C & W)
My Life and Times : Octave Seven (1968 C & W)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1968 Morgan-Grampian)
The Strongest Man on Earth (1968 C & W)
My Life and Times : Octave Eight (1969 C & W)
My Life and Times : Octave Nine (1970 C & W)
My Life and Times : Octave Ten (1971 C & W)
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Mabel in Queer Street
The Enchanted Blanket
The Dining-Room Battle
The Adventures of Two Chairs
The Enchanted Island
The Naughty Mobile
The Fairy in the Window Box
The Stairs that Kept on Going Down

READING
Andro Linklater : Compton Mackenzie - A Life (1987 Chatto & Windus)