J.B. Priestley

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1966
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • Bright Day

    Published to coincide with the centenary of J.B. Priestley's birth. A chance meeting takes film writer Gregory Dawson back in time to the lost world of his youth, and the close-knit Yorkshire community in which he grew up during the last golden summe...

  • Particular Pleasures

  • Carfitt Crisis

  • Salt Is Leaving

    "' A] formidable exercise, distinguished by Priestley's undiminished gusto for storytelling.' - ""New York Times Book Review"" ' A] most satisfactory suspense story. It has the advantage of being different and witty and full of the kind of observati...

  • Three Men in New Suits

    It is spring 1945. Three men who have been serving together overseas return, demobilised, to the same village. Coming from very diff erent walks of life, the war has brought them together in unexpected friendship. Following each man as he returns hom...

  • Lost Empires

  • Let the People Sing

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

  • Faraway

    When William Dursley finds his long-lost and ailing Uncle Baldwin on his doorstep one wintry night, his life is changed for ever. His uncle relates a story of an island in the South Pacific, filled with a precious uranium ore worth millions of pounds...

  • The Magicians

    "Beautifully composed and splendidly written, it has great power and real point ... the command of the contemporary scene is masterly.... One of the best characters that have appeared in fiction for a very long time." - Walter Allen, New Statesman



  • Eden End

  • An Inspector Calls

    The Birling family are spending a happy evening celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft -- a marriage that will result in the merging of two successful local businesses. Yet just when everything seems to be going so well, they...

  • An Inspector Calls the Graphic Novel

  • An Inspector Calls the Graphic Novel: Original Text

  • Angel Pavement

    J.B. Priestley Angel Pavement Introduced by D.J. Taylor GREAT NORTHERN BOOKS Tucked away in the City of London, lies a dingy, almost forgotten side street known as Angel Pavement. Here can be found the he...

  • DELIGHT

    Special 60th anniversary edition 60th anniversary edition of one of Priestley’s most acclaimed and best loved collections of short essays.Best known today as a novelist, playwright and a social commentator J.B. Priestley first found fame as a maste...

  • Good Companions

    Special Edition with extra content.Three unhappy characters, Jess Oakroyd, Miss Trant and Inigo Jollifant flee from their old lives to seek adventure on the open road. Fate brings them together and into the presence of a broken-down theatrical tourin...

  • Priestley Plays Four

  • Benighted

    First published in 1927, public domain in the US. In this psychological thriller drawing on gothic literature elements like Jane Eyre, three travelers are taken in by a family, and they discover hidden dark secrets....

  • Mystery at Greenfingers

    A snowstorm traps a group of guests and crew into the Greenfingers Palace Hotel. A detective is sent to the hotel to investigate a top secret crime, but it is Miss Tracey and new hostess who solve everything.-6 women, 4 men...



  • The Other Place, and Other Stories of the Same Sort

    "These stories say something meaningful, as well as relate an anecdote. They are not only examples of narrative skill, but exhibitions of social truth." - " Saturday Review" "Priestley is one of the finest and most popular storytellers of the last h...

  • Saturn Over the Water

    'Written with tremendous pace and panache. It sweeps you along in excitement. John Buchan, Ray Bradbury, science fiction or suspense - it is all the same to Mr Priestley. He takes on a dozen writers and shows himself a match for them all.' - The Time...

  • What A Life!

  • The Doomsday Men

    "This is a story in Mr. Priestley's best vein, and he uses all the arts of suspense, all the twists and turns of fate, as well as his own cheerful and kindly reading of the human heart to make it so. It is really true that you cannot put the book dow...

  • The Thirty-First of June

    'Priestley in top form and being very, very funny.' - Simon Fox, Western Mail

    '[A] glorious fantasy . . . I, for one, immensely enjoyed this romp of a novel.' - R. C. Scriven, Yorkshire Post

    '[I]n a class by itself . . . an energeti...

  • Brief Diversions

    THE ART OF PARODY. I suppose most schoolboys with early leanings towards verse-writing begin by essaying the gentle art of parody. In my time a favourite subject was Hiawatha; the meter was so simple-almost any remark might be turned by those who had...

  • Grumbling at Large

    Priestley defined the essay as a 'prose masterpiece in miniature' and he expressed his thoughts on a diverse range of subjects from old age to his horror of conferences. Writing sometimes 'out of devilment' to shake up a complacent pu...

  • The Roundabout

  • The Other Place and Other Stories of the Same Sort

    J. B. Priestley (1894-1984) was a versatile and prolific novelist and playwright, but in The Other Place (1953) he shows an unexpected talent, proving himself a master of the weird tale. In "The Grey Ones," a man visits a psychiatrist after he bec...

  • Low Notes on a High Level



  • Blackout in Gretley

    Humphrey Neyland is a middle-aged Canadian engineer recruited by British Intelligence to go undercover in the industrial city of Gretley, where aircraft essential to the war effort are being produced and where it is feared Nazi agents and saboteurs a...

  • Jenny Villiers

    Once passionate about the theatre, playwright Martin Cheveril is now disillusioned and contemplating a change of career. His new play, a bitter and cynical piece, is about to premiere when something strange happens. After stumbling upon an old pamphl...

  • Johnson over Jordan

  • The Shapes of Sleep

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    'Splendid . . . this absorbing topical tale . . . has the master stamp . . . in pace, ingenuity, coherence, it is completely assured, and with the special Priestley slant of wry observation.' - Evening Standard

    'The Shapes of Sleep is not ea...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J.B. Priestley has published 33 books.

J.B. Priestley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Johnson over Jordan, was published in September 2021.

The first book by J.B. Priestley, Bright Day, was published in November 1966.

No. J.B. Priestley does not write books in series.
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