Phyllis Bottome - Books

Books

She wrote her first novel when she was just seventeen.

• Alfred Adler – Apostle of Freedom. London 1939, Faber & Faber, 3rd Ed. 1957
• The Dark Tower, 1916
• Kingfisher, 1922
• The Perfect Wife, 1924
• Life of Olive Schreiner, 1924
• Old Wine, 1926
• The Belated Reckoning, 1926
• Windlestraws, 1929
• The Advances of Harriet, 1933
• Private Worlds, 1934
• Murder in the Bud
• Level Crossing, 1936
• The Mortal Storm, 1938
• Danger Signal, 1939
• Masks and Faces, 1940
• Formidable to Tyrants, 1941
• London Pride, 1941
• Mansion House of Liberty, 1941
• The Heart of a Child, 1942
• Within a Cup, 1943
• Survival, 1943
• From the Life, 1944, London, Faber & Faber. Six studies of the author's friends Alfred Adler, Max Beerbohm, Ivor Novello, Sara Delano Roosevelt, Ezra Pound, Margaret MacDonald Bottome.
• The Lifeline, 1946
• Innocence and Experience, 1947
• Search for a Soul, 1947
• Fortune's Finger, 1950
• Under the Skin – Love Drew no Color Line when a White Woman entered a Negro's World, 1950
• The Challenge, 1953
• The Secret Stair, 1954
• Against Whom? 1954. By chance a patient is brought to a Sanatorium on the verge of death, how he not only recovers but manages to influence the lives of the scientists who have observed him is the subject of this novel. In the course of the book the principal characters find that they must either think of others and put that thought into practise or those same 'others' will become their enemy, and destroy, one by one, his most intimate relationships.
• Eldorado Jane, 1956
• Walls of Glass, 1958
• The Goal, 1962 – her autobiography
• Our New Order or Hitler's? A Selection of Speeches by Winston Churchill, Archbishop of Canterbury, Anthony Eden & Others, ed. by Ph. Bottome, Penguin Books Middlesex 1943