Naomi Mitchison

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1983
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • Not by Bread Alone

    In 1983, at the age of 86, Naomi Mitchison published Not By Bread Alone. Sixty years had passed since the publication of her first novel, The Conquered. As a lifelong advocate of socialism and feminism, Mitchison draws upon the speculative imaginary ...

  • Travel Light

    "Travel Light is the story of Halla, a girl born to a king but cast out onto the hills to die. She lives among bears; she lives among dragons. But the time of dragons is passing, and Odin All-Father offers Halla a choice: Will she stay dragonish and ...

  • Images of Africa

  • Corn King and the Spring Queen

    A classic epic fantasy set in ancient civilizations along the Black Sea where tenderness, beauty and love vie with brutality and dark magic. Erif Der, a young witch, is compelled by her father to marry his powerful rival, Tarrik the Corn King, so bec...

  • Solution Three

    As a fast-paced novel about a future shaped by feminist ideals of sexual and racial equality, "solution three" at first seems to be a peaceful answer to the world's problems. Homosexuality as an international norm and reproduction by cloning have min...

  • To the Chapel Perilous

    Had journalists plied their trade in the days of King Arthur, how would they have reported breaking stories like the Quest for the Holy Grail? Or the love affair between Lancelot and Guinevere? Or the fall of the Round Table? In answering these intri...

  • Black Sparta

    Her touch is sure, her description admirable. The reader gets a whiff of crushed thyme and of dew on dust as the author tells of Pindar's poetic adventure into Thessaly' TimesKeywords: Pindar Thessaly Whiff Thyme Admirable...

  • The Conquered

    With The Conquered Mrs. Mitchison establishes herself as the best, if not the only, English historical novelist now writing. It seems to me in many respects the most attractive and poignant historical novel I have ever read' A story of the Gauls unde...

  • Cloud Cuckoo Land



  • When The Bough Breaks And Other Stories

  • Beyond This Limit

    Naomi Mitchison published her first novel, The Conquered, in 1923. In her more than seventy succeeding books she has produced an extraordinary out-put, especially in the novel and the short story. This selection of the shorter fiction is intended to ...

  • When We Become Men

    Naomi Mitchison began her novel-writing career in the 1920s, with historical fictions set in the Ancient world, in Roman and Greek civilisations, and soon won a high reputation world-wide. But she began to move toward present and future as well as pa...

  • Travel Light with The Varangs' Saga

    In her novels, Naomi Mitchison frequently tackled serious issues, war and peace, conflicts of loyalties, freedom and slavery, and of course feminism. But a very few times she allowed her work to be primarily a question of fun, or play. In Travel Ligh...

  • Behold Your King

    In this unusual and accomplished novel Naomi Mitchison retells in realistic terms and colloquial dialogue the story of the passion and death of Jesus, hour by hour, as it unfolds over the twenty-four hours of Good Friday. In a restless Jerusalem unde...

  • Cleopatra's People

    When Naomi Mitchison, queen of the historical novel, undertook Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, already symbol of a great love story, something remarkable was bound to ensue. But Mitchison did not choose to follow her great predecessors Plutarch and Shakes...

  • The Blood of the Martyrs

    Introduced by Donald Smith. Set in Rome during Nero’s reign of terror, The Blood of the Martyrs is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of one cell of the early church. With a cast of slaves, ordinary Roman people, exiles and ent...

  • The Big House

    The Big House is a children's book with much to say to adult readers. On one level it is a charming and absorbing fantasy novel with a fairy hill, a Brounie and an enchanted piper all drawn from Celtic myth and legend, set in a West Highland village ...

  • Memoirs Of A Spacewoman

    Naomi Mitchison, daughter of a distinguished scientist, sister of geneticist J B S Haldane, was always interested in the sciences, especially genetics. Her novels did not tend to demonstrate this, and she did not publish a Science Fiction novel until...

  • The Delicate Fire

    The Delicate Fire illustrates a fundamental change in Naomi Mitchison's work. The early stories are set in ancient Greece, like many before them. But here Mitchison effectively says farewell to that setting with accounts of the worlds of Sappho and '...



  • We have Been Warned

  • The Bull Calves

    "The Bull Calves" was researched and written during the Second World War. This is very surprising, as Naomi Mitchison was tremendously busy at her home in Carradale, Kintyre, keeping open house for evacuees and refugees, running the farm and driving ...

  • The Conquered - another view of Caesar's Gaul

  • The Fourth Pig

    An enchanting collection that introduces the author and activist Naomi Mitchison to a new generation of readers

    The Fourth Pig, originally published in 1936, is a wide-ranging collection of fairy tales, poems, and ballads that reflect the ho...

  • Early in Orcadia

    Early in Orcadia was first published in 1987, and consists of five stories, set hundreds of years apart in time and dealing with different characters, but connected by their location in a particular corner of Orkney during the period known as the Sto...

  • Five Men and a Swan

    This collection, which Naomi Mitchison published in 1957, is recognisably a 'Carradale book', containing as it does vivid and realistic stories and poems of the landscape and the people. Mitchison had moved to the village in Kintyre, on the west coas...

  • The Oath-Takers and Sea-Green Ribbons

    'We story-tellers have a delightful time playing with history, perhaps finding something fascinating, perhaps making dreadful mistakes.'Here, in The Oath-Takers, the 'central maypole round which the people ... must swing and fall' is Charlemagne, and...

  • Bridges of Understanding: African Heroes

    African Heroes, published in 1968, contains: The Kings Beyond the Desert; The Story of the Emir of the Faithful, Mai Idris Alooma of Bornu; The Greatest Mani of Kongo; The Golden Stool of Ashanti; The Boy from the Bush; Shaka of the Amazulu; The Moun...

  • What Do You Think Yourself? with A Girl Must Live

    This volume contains the short stories and poems from What Do you Think Yourself?, published in 1982, and A Girl Must Live, published in 1990.From What Do You Think Yourself? they are: Orkney Story; The Black Jacket; The Sea Horse; The Hill Modip...

  • When the Bough Breaks with Black Sparta

    This volume brings together the stories and poems from When the Bough Breaks, published in 1924, and Black Sparta, published in 1928. They are: A Sophist in love; 'A wood near Athens'; Arrow-struck; Babes in the wood; Black Sparta; Charilas, in e...



  • The Gannet's Path

    During the second half of the Twentieth Century, Mitchison wrote a number of books for younger readers, many of which are now brought together in five volumes within The Naomi Mitchison Library. The two books in this volume are re-imaginings of the N...

  • The Far Harbour with Henny and Crispies

    During the second half of the Twentieth Century, Mitchison wrote a succession of books for younger readers, which are now brought together in five volumes within The Naomi Mitchison Library. This volume brings together two books about life for young ...

  • Graeme and the Dragon and other stories for young readers

    During the second half of the Twentieth Century, Mitchison wrote a succession of books for younger readers, which are now brought together in five volumes within The Naomi Mitchison Library. This volume brings together the longer story collections Gr...

  • The Rib of the Green Umbrella and Karensgaard

    During the second half of the Twentieth Century, Mitchison wrote a succession of books for younger readers, which are now brought together in five volumes within The Naomi Mitchison Library. This volume contains two books. Firstly, the straightforwar...

  • Uncollected Stories 1923-1997

    In her lifetime, Naomi Mitchison wrote over two hundred and fifty pieces of fiction which can be described as short stories. Many of these were brought together in the stand-alone collections: When the Bough Breaks (1924), Barbarian Stories (1929), T...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Naomi Mitchison has published 34 books.

Naomi Mitchison does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Uncollected Stories 1923-1997, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Naomi Mitchison, Not by Bread Alone, was published in August 1983.

No. Naomi Mitchison does not write books in series.
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