Biographical notes and Bibliographies

We have compiled brief biographical notes and bibliographical checklists for Jeffery Farnol, Georgette Heyer, J. B. Priestley, Nevil Shute, Howard Spring, Dennis Wheatley, P. G. Wodehouse and Dornford Yates. Some are more comprehensive than others.

Bibliography is too technical a term for the checklists that follow each biographical note and certainly none is in any way intended to be the ultimate in bibliographies - they are provided as a guide and for amusement. We would be pleased to correct errors that are pointed out to us but please include the source of your information - it may be something that we have already found to be in error.

(Note: Over the passage of time this is something that happens - an error occurs, even something as simple as a spelling mistake, in a list that is referred to by others and those others then repeat the error until there are more occurrences of the mistake than there are of the original. The error then tends to be accepted as the correct entry.)

Our grateful acknowledgement to the following sources:

Specific

Teresa Chris: Georgette Heyer's Regency London
Jane Aiken Hodge: The Private World of Georgette Heyer
Vincent Brome: J. B. Priestley
Ivor Brown: J. B. Priestley
Benny Green: P. G. Wodehouse A Literary Biography
Joseph Connolly: P. G. Wodehouse An Illustrated Biography
Frances Donaldson: P. G. Wodehouse The Authorised Biography
Frances Donaldson: Yours Plum The Letters of P. G. Wodehouse
David A. Jasen: A Bibliography and Reader's Guide to the First Editions of P. G. Wodehouse
Eileen MacIlvaine: P. G. Wodehouse A Comprehensive Bibliography
Barry Phelps: P. G. Wodehouse Man and Myth
Richard Usborne: Wodehouse at Work
Lofts and Adley: The Saint and Leslie Charteris A Biography
Charles Kiddle: A Guide to the First Editions of Edgar Wallace
Lofts and Adley: The British Bibliography of Edgar Wallace
Margaret Lane: Edgar Wallace The Biography of a Phenomenon
A. J. Smithers: Dornford Yates - A Biography
Richard Usborne: Clubland Heroes
Marion Howard Spring: Howard, Frontispiece and Memories and Gardens
Peter Skiggs manuscript correspondence (re Jeffery Farnol)

.......and authors own autobiographies

General

The Clique: Annual Register of Book Values 1989-99
Dawsons: Book Auction Records 1967-94
A. and C. Black: Who's Who 1930-98

A. and C. Black: Who was Who 1897-1980
Diamond Publishing: Book and Magazine Collector 1984-2005
Joseph Connolly: Modern First Editions
Richard Church: British Authors - A Twentieth Century Gallery
E. O. Hoppe: Gods of Modern Grub Street
Peter Parker: The Readers Companion to 20th Century Writers
L. G. Pine: The Author's and Writer's Who's Who
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Biography

.......as well as the books by the relevant authors in our possession or which have passed through our hands.