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Portrait by Robert Heriot Westwater, 1962
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Compton Mackenzie (17 January 1883 – 30 November 1972) was an English writer who became one of Scotland’s best loved authors. A staunch supporter of an independent Scotland, he famously declared in a 1929 radio broadcast that “an English voice and a Scottish heart is a better combination than a Scottish voice and an English heart.[1]

Books are listed in order of their date of first publication.[2]

  • The Passionate Elopement (1911)
  • Carnival (1912)
  • Sinister Street [volume i] (1913)
  • Sinister Street [volume ii] (1914)
  • Guy and Pauline (1915)
  • The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (1918)
  • Sylvia and Michael (1919)
  • Poor Relations (1920)
  • The Vanity Girl (1920)
  • Rich Relatives (1921)
  • The Altar Steps (1922)
  • The Parson’s Progress (1923)
  • The Seven Ages of Woman (1923)
  • The Old Men of the Sea (1924)
  • Coral (1925)
  • Rogues and Vagabonds (1927)
  • Vestal Fire (1927)
  • Extraordinary Women (1928)
  • Gallipoli Memories (1929)
  • First Athenian Memories (1931)
  • Our Street (1931)
  • Greek Memories (1932)
  • Literature in My Time (1933)
  • Reaped and Bound (1933)
  • Water on the Brain (1933)
  • The East Wind of Love (1937)
  • The South Wind of Love (1937)
  • West to North (1940)
  • The West Wind of Love (1940)
  • The Red Tapeworm (1941)
  • The Monarch of the GlenComedy novel by Compton Mackenzie (1833–1972), portraying life in the fictional Scottish Highland estate of Glenbogle during the 1930s. (1941)
  • Keep the Home Guard TurningComedy novel by Compton Mackenzie (1833–1972, portraying the exploits of the Home Guard on the fictional island of Todday during the Second World War. (1943)
  • Wind of Freedom (1943)
  • The North Wind of Love: Book One (1944)
  • The North Wind of Love: Book Two (1945)
  • Whisky GaloreNovel by Compton Mackenzie based on the real-life 1941 sinking of a ship carrying a large quantity of whisky, and the local residents' attempts to recover it and hide it from the authorities. (1947)
  • All Over the Place (1948)
  • Hunting the Fairies (1949)
  • The Rival Monster (1952)
  • Ben Nevis Goes East (1954)
  • Thin Ice (1956)
  • Rockets Galore (1957)
  • The Lunatic Republic (1959)
  • Mezzotint (1961)
  • The Stolen Soprano (1965)
  • Paper Lives (1966)

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