1929 (begins April)
The Love of the Foolish Angel* | Helen Beauclerk | (Collins) | Fantasy. |
The Embezzlers* | Valentine Katacv | (Ernest Behn) | Trans. from the Russian by L. Zarin. |
The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh | Lord Birkenhead (ed.) | (Jonathan Cape) | History, convict life, Australia. |
Henry the Eighth | Francis Hackett | (Jonathan Cape) | Biography. |
Nicky, Son of Egg* | Gerald Bullett | (Heinemann) | |
A High Wind in Jamaica* | Richard Hughes | (Chatto & Windus) | Femina-Vie Heureuse prize winner. |
Whiteoaks* | Mazo de la Roche | (Macmillan) | Family saga. Canadian. |
Gallopoli Memories | Compton Mackenzie | (Cassells) | History, Autobiography, WW1. |
The Lacquer Lady* | F. Tennyson Jesse | (Heinemann) | Historical fiction, setting Burma. |
1930
All Our Yesterdays* | H. M. Tomlinson | (Heinemann) | WW1 |
Kristin Lavransdatter* | Sigrid Undset | (Cassell) | Historical fiction. Norwegian Undset, Nobel Prize for Lit. 1928 |
Three Daughters* | Jane Dashwood | (Murray) | |
_ And Co.* | Jean-Richard Bloch | (Gollancz) | Trans. from the French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff |
The Edwardians* | Vita Sackville-West | (Hogarth Press) | Historical fiction. |
The Water Gypsies* | A. P. Herbert | (Methuen) | Romantic comedy. |
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Francis Yeats-Brown | (Gollancz) | Autobiographical, colonies. James Tait Black Memorial Prize. |
A Note in Music* | Rosamond Lehmann | (Chatto & Windus) | |
Grand Hotel* | Vicki Baum | (Bles) | Trans. from the German by Basil Creighton. |
Mosaic* | G. B. Stern | (Chapman and Hall) | |
The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney* | H. H. Richardson (pseud. Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson) | (Heinemann) | Australian ‘classic’. |
Diary of a Provincial Lady* | E. M. Delafield | (Macmillan) | Comedy, satire. |
* Denotes fiction