Alec Waugh

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1917
  • Latest Book:
    October 2012
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Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • The Loom of Youth

    First published in 1917, this semi-autobiographical work tells the story of Gordon Caruthers' schooldays at the English public school, Fenhurst. From his confusion and isolation, through rebellious school escapades and relationships with fellow s...

  • The Lonely Unicorn

    Rediscover the charm of school life in Alex Waugh's The Lonely Unicorn, a delightful novel set in an English boarding school. This classic work of fiction offers a humorous and insightful glimpse into the world of education and adolescence. Explore t...

  • Kept

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    First published in 1925, this is a rich tale centred around the lives of Marjorie Fairfield, a beautiful and penniless young woman who is the mistress of a wealthy business man; and the symbolically named Ransom Heritage, one of the many young men wh...

  • Love in these Days

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    In Love in These Days, first published in 1926, Alec Waugh explores themes of love, marriage and friendship in the vibrant and dynamic years of the early twenties. With his characteristic attention to detail he uses his characters to examine the s...

  • Nor Many Waters

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    First published in 1928, Nor Many Waters is typical Alec Waugh in its charm and grace, and its shrewd perception of human emotions and profound exploration of human relationships....

  • "Sir!' She Said

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    ‘The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him!' This was Melanie's viewpoint and she always knew exactly what she wanted. Julia was different. She worked in a dress shop and she was often disturbed about her younger sis...

  • So Lovers Dream

    First published in 1931, this is not the only one of Alec Waugh's novels in which he has described the agonies of a couple who are desperately in love but cannot marry, for it is a situation that he has himself lived through. But it is in this no...

  • Wheels within Wheels

    First published in 1933, this tale describes how events that take place in an obscure oil-surveyor's camp in the French West Indies act as the link and the catalyst for three desperate groups of people thousands of miles apart - in London, New Yo...

  • The Balliols

    First published in 1934, this book tells the story of the Balliol family as they exist through the suffrage movement and the end of the Edwardian era to the Great War.

    The Balliol children are subject to the effects of the war - the harsh ...



  • No Truce with Time

    First published in 1941, this is the story of Mary Montague, who having married a man several years older than herself, craves love and attention to relieve the monotony of her days. Her husband, Gerald Montague, whose ill-running health is ruining h...

  • Unclouded Summer

    The bright summer sun faded into the shimmering Mediterranean as the young American painter began what was to be the five most perfect hours of his lifetime. It would be more than just an affair, a passionate encounter, and yet it would come to nothi...

  • Where the Clocks Chime Twice

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    First published in 1951, this is part sentimental journey revisiting old well-loved scenes of former travels, and part search for new, out-of-the-way lands, Alec Waugh's travel book tells of a journey half-way round the world. But in new or old p...

  • Guy Renton

    First published in 1952, this is a tale of Austria. February 1925. A date that would always remain special for Guy Renton. There his chance meeting with the young and beautiful, but married, Mrs Renee Burton, precipitated the first crisis in his life...

  • Island in the Sun

    To the casual visitor Santa Marta is a sub-tropical paradise, a small sister of Jamaica, Bermuda and Nassau, unmentioned in the colour-splashed brochures of travel agents: an island where the sun shines throughout the year on the sandy beaches of inn...

  • Fuel for the Flame

    First published in 1960, this is a tale of an imaginary island on the Equator that has suddenly achieved importance through the discovery of oil - what will happen to the men and women living under the tensions of life on this island?

    At o...

  • My Place in the Bazaar

    First published in 1961, this collection of Thirteen stories has been compiled as Alec Waugh looked back over his career as an author, and takes from his writing those which he feels are amongst his most personal creations, bringing them together int...

  • A Family of Islands

    First published in 1964, this book tells how what Columbus started in 1492 was finished in 1898, when the red and gold flag was lowered at Havana to mark the end of four centuries of Spanish dominance in the Caribbean.

    For two and a half c...

  • The Mule on the Minaret

    First published in 1965 and based on the author's own experience as an officer in the British Intelligence and packed with the most closely observed detail of the people, places and costumes of the Levant, The Mule on the Minaret is a long, colou...

  • A Spy in the Family

    First published in 1970, Alec Waugh described his novel as an erotic comedy. It is the story of a respectable Treasury official, Victor Trail, and his wife Myra, whose marriage has lost its flavour, owing to Victor's clock-work schedule and Myra&...



  • The Fatal Gift

    If you enjoyed the powerful atmosphere of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby you may just have an inkling of the smoothly professional efficacy of Alec Waugh's The Fatal Gift. First published in 1973, this novel breathes the values and attitudes o...

  • Brief Encounter

    First published in 1975, this story tells of how a chance meeting in a café, a piece of grit delicately removed by a gentleman from a lady's eye give birth to an affair... a brief yet unrelenting emotional tug-of-war between two people whose spo...

  • Married to a Spy

    Alec Waugh set this novel in Tangier where he had been an intermittent resident for 20 years. MARRIED TO A SPY is not, however, ‘another Tangier novel'. It is a dramatic story of fast-moving action and suspense based on the assumption that the Basq...

  • Roland Whately

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

  • 'Sir!' She Said

    "The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him!"

    This was Melanie's viewpoint and she always knew exactly what she wanted. Julia was different. She worked in a dress shop and she was often distur...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Alec Waugh has published 24 books.

Alec Waugh does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, 'Sir!' She Said, was published in October 2012.

The first book by Alec Waugh, The Loom of Youth, was published in January 1917.

No. Alec Waugh does not write books in series.
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