Nigel Balchin

The Small Back Room

Wartime novel about eccentric scientist and his unconventional work

About the author

Nigel Balchin
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.

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