Winston Graham's Bibliography

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NOVELS

Notes:

* Quote : "The books WG chose to turn his back on were books 1-9 + 11. Quite why he chose to disown those ten whilst keeping Night Journey in print (for it's surely one of the same series and certainly not noticeably "better") I can't imagine. As for getting hold of copies, it can be done. They were all published by a firm called Ward Lock". Jim50 27/2/2004

* The Giant's Chair (1938) and My Turn Next (1942) were subsequently revised and republished under different titles: Woman In The Mirror (1975) and Cameo (1988) respectively. The plot of The Giant's Chair was retained but the narrative substantially pruned (from 314 pages down to 238).

* My Bodley Head edition of Night Journey includes this short introductory note by WG: "Night Journey was written in 1940 and published in 1941. It sold about 700 copies and then the type and sheets were destroyed in an air-raid … … I have revised it for this [1966] publication, but have not attempted to alter its judgements with the superior hind-sight of twenty-five years." (Copies of this first edition of the book are now virtually impossible to find). Confirmation, then, that WG did indeed turn his back on his first eleven novels (1-11 on the list), only for three of them to be subsequently revisited for revision and republication - Night Journey revised in 1966 and republished under its original title, followed by The Giant’s Chair/Woman In The Mirror and My Turn Next/Cameo as previously described. Jim50

Notes :
Nos. 1-14 were published together under the title of The Japanese Girl (1971). Some or all of them have apparently been republished under the title of The Cornish Farm and individual stories have also appeared in various mixed-author anthologies.

No. 15 Winter’s Crimes Volume 6 (Macmillan 1974) is a collection of original stories, all by different authors, which includes a contribution from WG called The Circus.

No. 16 Winter’s Crimes Volume 19 (Macmillan 1987) is another collection of original stories by different authors – WG’s contribution this time is called Nothing In The Library.

No. 17 The Horse Dealer serialised in the Western Morning News, April/ May 2002.

No. 18. Meeting Demelza - see SCRYFA

WORKS PUBLISHED UNDER MORE THAN ONE TITLE

1. Ross Poldark aka The Renegade (USA - 1945)
2. Demelza aka Elizabeth's Story (USA - 1946)
3. Jeremy Poldark aka Venture Once More (USA - 1950)
4. Warleggan aka The Last Gamble (USA - 1953)
5. The Little Walls aka Bridge to Vengeance (USA - 1955)
6. The Forgotten Story aka The Wreck of the Grey Cat (USA - 1958)
7. Angell, Pearl & Little God aka Peggy (Germany - 1970)
8. The Japanese Girl republished, with revised contents, as The Cornish Farm (?) (worldwide - 1971)
9. Cordelia aka Jennifer (Germany - 1975)

NON-FICTION

1. Spanish Armadas - 1972
2. Poldark's Cornwall - 1983
3. Memoirs of a Private Man - 2003

ANTHOLOGIES CONTAINING SHORT STORIES

1. The 7th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories - 1972
2. Realms of Darkness - 1985
3. The Mammoth Book of Twentieth Century Ghost Stories - 1998


Notes:

In the early 1930s before publication of his first novel, Mr Graham wrote a play - Seven Suspected - which was successfully produced in several provincial venues but never published. Then in 1938 he wrote a second play - Forsaking All Others - which though neither produced nor published became, in re-written form his eighth novel Strangers Meeting.

Finally in chapter 6 of his memoirs Mr Graham relates his experience of writing screenplays. With actress Valerie Taylor in 1945 he co-wrote a successful screenplay - Take My Life - from which his 1947 novel of the same name was subsequently adapted. The Forgotten Story (1945) and Night Without Stars (1950) were both published novels subsequently adapted, with some help from Mr Graham for the screen. In 1945/6 he also worked briefly on the revision of a screenplay, not originally his own called Pleasure Beach about which he states, "nothing came". I am not aware that (other than in the novel formats mentioned) any of this work was ever published. Other WG novels (Fortune Is A Woman, The Sleeping Partner, Marnie, The Walking Stick) were filmed with no WG scriptwriting input. Neither was he directly involved in scripting the BBC TV Poldark series.

(Grateful acknowledgements to "Jim50" and many other contributors for all their valuable help and assistance in compiling this bibliography)

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