Jan Morris bibliography
Appearance
This is a list of the literary works by British writer and historian Jan Morris (1926–2020).
Non-fiction
[edit]Travel
[edit]- Coast to Coast (published in the US as As I Saw the USA; 1956: winner of the 1957 Cafe Royal Prize)
- Sultan in Oman (1957; new edition by Eland in 2008)
- The Market of Seleukia (1957)
- South African Winter (1958)
- The Hashemite Kings (1959)
- Venice (1960: winner of the 1961 Heinemann Award)
- The Presence of Spain (1964)
- Spain (1964)
- Oxford (1965)
- The Great Port: A Passage through New York (1969)
- The Venetian Empire (1980)
- A Venetian Bestiary (1982)
- The Matter of Wales (1984)
- Spain (1988)
- Hong Kong (1988)
- Sydney (1992)
- Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (2001)
- A Writer's World: Travels 1950–2000 (2003)
- Contact! A Book of Encounters (2010)
Essays
[edit]- The Bedside Guardian 11: A Selection from the Guardian 1961-1962 (foreword/editor, 1962)
- The Road to Huddersfield: A Journey to Five Continents (1963)
- The Outriders: A Liberal View of Britain (1963)
- Cities (1963)
- Places (1972)
- Travels (1976)
- Destinations (1980)
- Wales; The First Place (1982, reprinted 1998)
- Journeys (1984)
- Among the Cities (1985)
- Locations (1992)
- O Canada! (1992)
- Contact! A Book of Glimpses (2009)
History
[edit]- The Pax Britannica Trilogy
- Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress (1973). Book 1. Covering the period 1837 to 1897
- Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire (1968). Book 2.
- Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (1978). Book 3. Covering the period 1897 to 1965
- The Spectacle of Empire: Style, Effect and the Pax Britannica (1982)
- Stones of Empire: Buildings of the Raj (1983) (by Jan Morris with photographs by Simon Winchester)
- Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony (2018)
Biography
[edit]- Fisher's Face (1995)
Memoirs
[edit]- Conundrum, UK Faber and Faber, US: Harcourt Brace (1974) (personal narrative of Jan Morris's gender transition)
- Wales, The First Place (1982)
- Pleasures of a Tangled Life (1989)
- "Herstory" (1999)
- Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (2001)
- A Writer's House in Wales (2002)
- In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary (2018)
- Thinking Again (2020)
Other
[edit]- Coronation Everest (1958)
- Ciao, Carpaccio! (2014)
- Allegorizings (2021) posthumously published
Fiction
[edit]Novels
[edit]- Last Letters from Hav (1985; shortlisted for the 1985 Booker Prize for Fiction)
- Hav of the Myrmidons. Published together with Last Letters from Hav, as Hav (2006; shortlisted for the 2007 Arthur C Clarke Award)
- Our First Leader: A Welsh Fable (2000) - a satirical alternate history set during the second world war.
Short stories
[edit]- The Upstairs Donkey, and Other Stolen Stories (1961)
As editor
[edit]- The Oxford Book of Oxford (editor)
- Ruskin, John, The Stones of Venice. Ed. Jan Morris. Mount Kisco, New York: Moyer Bell Limited, 1989.
Miscellaneous
[edit]- The World Bank. A Prospect (1963)
- Manhattan '45 (hardcover 1987, paperback 1998)
- Over Europe (Weldon Owen, 1991) – Jan Morris provided the text for this post-Cold War photographic project
- Fifty Years of Europe: An Album (1997) – published in 2006 as Europe – An Intimate Journey
- The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country
- Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest (2001)
- Our First Leader
- Thrilling Cities written by Ian Fleming. Jan Morris provided the introduction for the 2009 edition published by Ian Fleming Publications.