Compton Mackenzie - Select Bibliography

Select Bibliography

• Poems (1907), a novel
• The Gentleman in Grey (1907), a play
• The Passionate Elopement (1911), a revision of the play into a novel
• Carnival (1912), an early best-seller
• Kensington Rhymes (1912), verse
• Sinister Street (1914), 2 volumes, a bildungsroman
• Guy and Pauline (1915)
• The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (1918), filmed in 1935 as Sylvia Scarlett
• Poor Relations (1919)
• The Vanity Girl (1920), a novel
• Rich Relatives (1921), a novel
• The Altar Steps (1922), and its sequels
• The Seven Ages of Woman (1923), a novel
• The Parson's Progress (1923), a novel (a sequel to The Altar Steps)
• Gramaphone Nights (1923), (with Archibald Marshall) essays
• The Heavenly Ladder (1924), a novel (sequel to The Parson's Progress)
• Santa Claus in Summer (1924)
• The Old Men Of the Sea (1924)
• Coral (1925), a novel (a sequel to Carnival)
• Fairy Gold (1926), a novel
• Rogues and Vagabonds (1927), a novel
• Vestal Fire (1927), novel
• Extremes meet (1928), a novel
• Extraordinary Women (1928)
• The Three Couriers (1929),
• Gallipoli Memories (1929)
• April Fools, A farce of manners (1930), novel (sequel to Poor Relations)
• Told (1930), Children's tales and verses.
• First Athenian Memories (1931)
• Buttercups and Daisies (1931), a novel
• Our Street (1931), a novel
• Unconsidered Trifles (1932), Collected essays.
• Greek Memories (1932), a continuation of First Athenian Memories.
• Lost Cause (1931), a play
• Prince Charlie (1932), biography
• Water on the Brain (1933), an absurdist spy novel parody.
• Literature in My Time (1933), criticism
• Reaped and Bound (1933), collected essays
• The Darkening Green (1934), a novel
• Maraton and Salamis (1934), history
• Prince Charlie and His Ladies (1934), history
• Catholicism and Scotland (1934), history
• The Book of Barra (1936), (with J.L. Campbell)
• Figure of Eight (1936), a novel
• Pericles (1937), history
• The Four Winds of Love (6 volumes 1937–45)
• The Windsor Tapestry Being a study of the life, heritage and abdication of HRH The Duke of Windsor (1938)
• A Musical Chair (1939), essays
• Aegean Memories (1940), memoirs
• The Four Winds of Love (6 volumes 1937–45)
• The Red Tapeworm (1941), a novel
• The Monarch of the Glen (1941), a novel
• Calvary (with F.C. Mackenzie) (1942),
• Wind of Freedom: The history of the invasion of Greece by the Axis powers, 1940-1941 (1944)
• Keep the Home Guard Turning (1943), a novel
• Mr Roosevelt (1943), biography
• Brockhouse (1944), history
• Dr Benes (1946), biography
• The Vital Flame (1946) (on the gas industry)
• Whisky Galore (1947), filmed in 1948 as Whisky Galore!
• All over the Place (1949), diary
• Hunting the Fairies (1949)
• Eastern Epic, an account of the part played by the Indian Army in the Second World War, Vol. I (1951),
• I Took a Journey ... A tour of the National Trust Properties (1951),
• The Rival Monster (1952)
• The House of Coalport 1750-1950 (1951), history
• The Queen's House. A history of Buckingham Palace (1953), history
• Realms of Silver. One Hundred Years of Banking in the East (1954), a history of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China.
• The Savoy of London (1953), history
• Ben Nevis Goes East (1954), a novel
• Echoes (1954), Broadcast talks
• My Record of Music (1955), musical autobiography
• Thin Ice (1956)
• Sublime Tobacco (1957), a novel
• Rockets Galore (1957), a sequel, filmed in 1958 as Rockets Galore!
• The Lunatic Republic (1959), a novel
• Cats' Company (1960) with photos by Harrison Marks
• Greece in My Life (1960), essays
• Mezzotint (1961), a novel
• Catmint (1961), imaginary conversations
• On Moral Courage (1962)
• Look at Cats (1964)
• Little Cat Lost (1965), children's story
• The Stolen Soprano (1965)
• Paper Lives (1966), a novel
• The Stairs That Kept Going Down (1967)
• My Life and Times in ten volumes each covering eight years, published as "Octave One" to "Octave Ten"(1963–1971)
• The Strongest Man on Earth (1967), mythology for young people