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  • Bibliography:
    59 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1936
  • Latest Book:
    August 2017
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Book List in Order: 59 titles

  • A Gun for Sale

    Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as a whole. The money he receives in payment for the...

  • Brighton Rock

    With a new introduction by J.M. Coetzee

    A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous Ida Arnold, who is de...

  • The Heart of the Matter

    With a new introduction by James Wood

    Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted -- being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray ever...

  • The Third Man

    Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives only just in time...

  • End of the Affair

    With a new introduction by Monica Ali

    The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. Two years later, after a chance meeti...

  • Lost Childhood and Other Stories

  • The Shipwrecked

  • The Living Room

  • The Quiet American

    Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler finds it hard to stand and watch. ...



  • The Potting Shed

    The 1957 English play, The Potting Shed, a 3-act play and a psychological family drama that carries themes of marriage, faith, religion, resurrection, betrayal, deception. It begins with the patriach dying, and his grown children are sent for by tele...

  • Our Man in Havana

    A hapless salesman in Cuba is recruited into Cold War spy games in Greene’s classic “comical, satirical, atmospherical” novel (The Daily Telegraph).   James Wormold, a cash-strapped vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, finds the answer to hi...

  • Complaisant Lover

    This book is a reproduction of a volume found in the collection of the University of Michigan Library. It is produced from digital images created through the Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The digital images for this book were cleaned an...

  • In Search of a Character

  • Twenty-One Stories

    In ''The Basement Room'' a small boy witnesses an event that blights his whole life. Like the other stories in this book (written between 1929 and 1954), it hinges on the themes that dominate Graham Greene''s novels—fear, pity and vio...

  • It's a Battlefield

    Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner. A battle for a reprieve with many participants ensues: the Assistant Commissioner, high-principled and over-worked; Conrad, a ...

  • A Sense of Reality

    With his “sheer mastery of narrative,” the British novelist takes a detour into the uncanny and wondrously absurd in these “compelling” stories (The Guardian).   An ambitious departure for an author renowned for his realism, this collect...

  • Another Mexico

  • The Comedians

    The centenary edition with a new introduction by Paul Theroux: three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti. Hiding behind their actors’ masks, they hesitate on the edge of life -- afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself....

  • May We Borrow Your Husband & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life

    Author William Harris is spending the fag-end of the season at Antibes finishing his first attempt at historical biography, but he becomes more and more interested and involved in the antics of two homosexual interior decorators intent on stealing Po...



  • Travels with My Aunt

    A novel which follows a man who embarks on a journey around the world with his elderly yet adventurous aunt, visiting locations such as Paris and Paraguay, mixing with hippies, war criminals and CIA Agents. From the author of OUR MAN IN HAVANA....

  • Triple Pursuit!

    Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH, (2 October 1904 - 3 April 1991) was an English writer, playwright and literary critic.[3] His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Greene was noted for his ability to combine seriou...

  • The Little Fire Engine

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    The classic underdog story of one brave little fire engine and his drive, by Graham Greene and Edward Ardizzone One day a shiny new fire engine arrives in Little Snoreing and Sam Trolley and the old-fashioned little fire engine are told they'...

  • The Portable Graham Greene

    In his essays, criticism, screenplays, autobiography, and novels, Graham Greene explored a territory located somewhere on the border between despair and faith, treachery and love.
     
    This cross-section of Greene’s work was originally ...

  • The Little Train

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    Early one morning the little train wakes up in his home town, Little Snoreing, and decides to go on an adventure. He chugs and puffs his way through villages, past castles and over bridges. But soon he gets tired, and the big city is a bit scary. The...

  • Below the Line

  • Lord Rochester's Monkey

  • Shades of Greene

  • Loser Takes All

    Bertram had no belief in luck. An unsuccessful assistant accountant, he was planning to get married for the second time - quietly. But Dreuther, a director of Bertram's firm, whimsically switches the honeymoon to Monte Carlo. Here Bertram's gambling ...

  • Human Factor

    The senior officers of Britain's secret service move to plug a leak by eliminating a junior colleague, unmindful of a veteran intelligence processor whose decency, courage, and capacity for love threaten all security...



  • A Sort of Life

    Graham Greene's autobiographical account of schooldays and Oxford; encounters with adolescence, psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism and how he rashly resigned from the Times when his first novel was publish...

  • England Made Me

    From master storyteller Graham Greene comes the tale of Anthony Farrant, who has boasted, lied and cheated his way through jobs all over the world. Then his adoring twin sister, Kate, gets him taken on as the bodyguard of Krogh, her lover and boss, a...

  • This Gun for Hire

  • The Orient Express

    Greene’s “sharply, often incisively etched” novel of the interlocked fates of unwary strangers on a train from Belgium to Constantinople (The New York Times).   The Orient Express has embarked from Ostend for a three-day journey to Cologne...

  • The Man Within

    The “strikingly original” debut novel by the masterful British author is “a perfect adventure” of love and smuggling on the English coast (The Nation).   Francis Andrews is a reluctant smuggler living in the shadow of his brutish father...

  • The Confidential Agent

    WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN. In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any pric...

  • Ministry of Fear

    Set in the torn landscape of the Blitz, this book is a phantasmagoric study in terror. Arthur Rowe was hamstrung by guilt, the guilt of having murdered his sick wife. He was standing aside from the war until the day when he happened to guess the true...

  • Monsignor Quixote

    Oct. 1983 Pocket Books mass market paperback, 4th printing. Graham Greene (The Quiet American). A small-town priest meets an Italian bishop, who promotes him to the degree of Monsignor. Before assuming his new responsibilities, he and the Marxist ex-...

  • Journey without Maps

    White men were not particularly welcome in Liberia when Graham Greene made it the object of his first journey outside Europe. Drawn by the evident seediness of a republic founded for released slaves and, above all, by the darkness and mystery which A...

  • The Honorary Consul

    In a provincial Argentinean town, Charley Fortnum, a British consul with dubious authority and a weakness for drink, is kidnapped by Paraguayan revolutionaries who have mistaken him for the American ambassador. Dr. Eduardo Plarr, a local physician wi...



  • Getting to Know the General

    'In August 1981 my bag was packed for my fifth visit to Panama when the news came to me over the telephone of the death of General Omar Torrijos Herrera, my friend and host. . . At that moment the idea came to me to write a short personal memoir. . ....

  • The Spy's Bedside Book

    For everyone who’s ever wondered what it really takes to be a spy, legendary author Graham Greene (The Third Man, The Quiet American) and his brother Hugh have compiled this irresistible selection of fiction, memoir, and tricks of the trade straigh...

  • The Tenth Man

    In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonising and crucial failure of nerve. Hysterical w...

  • Doctor Fischer of Geneva Or, the Bomb Party

    Dr. Fischer, an enigmatic millionaire, practical joker, and student of human nature, hosts notoriously decadent parties that serve as part of his experiment to see just how far the extremely wealthy will go to satisfy their greed...

  • Ways of Escape

    First published in 1980, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his long and extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary, he has travelled like an explorer seeking out people and political situations at the dangerous edge of t...

  • The Captain and the Enemy

    Victor Baxter is a young boy when a secretive stranger known simply as “the Captain” takes him from his boarding school to live in London. Victor becomes the surrogate son and companion of a woman named Liza, who renames him “Jim&rd...

  • The Last Word, and Other Stories

    A collection of twelve new stories by the late author of The Power and the Glory features "The New House," written when the author was nineteen, "The News in England," a story of life in 1940, and "The Moment of Truth," penned in 1988. Reprin...

  • Under the Garden

  • Dr. Fischer of Geneva

    'Manages to say more about love, hate, happiness, grief, immortality, greed and the disgustingly rich than most contemporary English novels three times the length' The TimesDoctor Fischer despises the human race. A millionaire with a taste for sadism...

  • Victorian Villainies



  • The Fallen Idol

    ''Graham Greene has wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the top ranks of world literature'' John le Carré

    The Third Man, Graham Greene''s most iconic tale, takes p...

  • No Man's Land

    No Man's Land is a profoundly chilling tale of espionage, superstition, and betrayal, and bears all the hallmarks of Greene's most famous works. Arriving in the Harz Mountains, within striking distance of the Iron Curtain, "civilian” Brown appears...

  • Stamboul Train

    Published in 1932, this spy thriller unfolds aboard the Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Constantinople. Weaving a web of subterfuge, murder and politics along the way, it focuses upon the disturbing relationship between Myatt, the ...

  • A Burnt-Out Case

    With a new introduction by Giles Foden

    When Querry, a famous architect, no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life, he goes to work at a Congo leper village where, as he loses himself in work for the lepers, his disease of mind slowly ...

  • Complete Short Stories

    The complete stories of a 20th century master of fiction

    Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and violence -- this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Including...

  • The Lawless Roads

    In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. The Lawless Roads is his spellbinding record of that journey. Taking him through the...

  • The Little Horse Bus

    One of the few children's books written by the great Graham Greene, with pictures by master illustrator Edward Ardizzone
    Mr. Potter is a proud shopkeeper with a busy shop, until one day a big superstore opens across the street. The new sto...

  • The Little Steamroller

    This best-loved classic tells the story of a brave little steamroller and how he thwarted an infamous smuggling gang.
         Every day the Little Steamroller works at London Airport clearing the runways for the aeroplanes a...

  • The Third Man and Other Stories

    A broad selection of Graham Greene''s masterful short stories, including Cold War classic novella, The Third Man.Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognisable - torn a...

  • The Power and the Glory

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    The Power and the Glory (1940) is a novel by British author Graham Greene. The title is an allusion to the doxology often added to the end of the Lord's Prayer: "For thine is the kingdom, (and) the power, and the glory, now and forever (or forever an...

Award-Winning Books by Graham Greene

The Third Man
1999 Audies -- Mystery-Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Graham Greene has published 59 books.

Graham Greene does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Third Man and Other Stories, was published in August 2017.

The first book by Graham Greene, A Gun for Sale, was published in January 1936.

No. Graham Greene does not write books in series.
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