← Nigel BalchinThe Small Back Roomby Nigel BalchinWartime novel about eccentric scientist and his unconventional workFind on Amazon↗About the authorNigel BalchinBalchin 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.More by Nigel BalchinMine 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→