Nigel Balchin
Balchin was a psychologist and novelist whose The Small Back Room is a brilliant novel of scientific life in wartime and whose Mine Own Executioner launched a vogue for psychological thrillers. His fiction has unusual intellectual precision.
Works
- The Small Back RoomWartime novel about eccentric scientist and his unconventional work
- Mine Own ExecutionerPsychological novel about psychiatrist and troubled patient relationship
- Darkness Falls from the AirWartime espionage thriller set in London during air raids
- The Borgia TestamentNovel exploring historical intrigue and rewriting of famous scandal
- A Way Through the Wood