Male : Novelist, Playwright & Biographer. Married 1933

Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : Dounby, Orkney Islands

Date of Birth : 1899 Date of Death : 1974 Age : 75

Education : Aberdeen GS & University

All Cape unless stated
1923-1930
Rosemount Nights (1923 Privately printed) - Play
The Prince Appears (1924 W W Lindsay) - Play
Poobie and Other Poems (1925 Porpoise Press) - pamphlet
White Maa's Saga (1929)
Poet's Pub (1929)
[Filmed in 1949]
A Dragon Laughed : Poems (1930)

1931-1935
Juan in America (1931)
Ben Jonson and King James (1931)
The Men of Ness (1932)
The Crusader's Key (1933 White Owl Press) - ss. Miss N Kirkham
Mary, Queen of Scots (1933 Peter Davies)
Robert the Bruce (1934 Peter Davies)
The Revolution (1934 White Owl Press) - ss
Magnus Merriman (1934)
The Devil's in the News (1934 Cape) - Play
Ripeness is All (1935)
The Lion and the Unicorn (1935 Routledge & Kegan Paul)
God Likes Them Plain (1935 Cape) - ss

1936-1940
Juan in China (1937)
The Sailor's Holiday (1937)
The Impregnable Women (1938)
Judas (1939)

1941-1945
The Man on My Back (1941 Macmillan) - Autobiography
The Cornerstones (1941 Macmillan)
The Northern Garrisons (1941 HMSO)
The Defence of Calais (1941 HMSO) - 36 page booklet
The Highland Division (1942 HMSO)
The Raft, and Socrates Asks Why (1942 Macmillan)
Crisis in Heaven (1944 Macmillan) - Play
The Great Ship, and Rabelais Replies : Two Conversations (1944 Macmillan)
The Wind on the Moon (1944 Macmillan) - Nicholas Bentley

1946-1950
Private Angelo (1946 8/6)
[Apparently Cape's only successful book in 1946]
[Filmed in 1949]
The Art of Adventure (1946 Aberdeen Univ Press) (1947 Macmillan)
Sealskin Trousers (1947 Hart-Davis) - Joan Hassall - ss
A Spell for Old Bones (1949)
The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea (1949 Macmillan) - William Reeves
Mr Byculla (1950 Rupert Hart-Davis)
Two Comedies (1950 Macmillan) - Play

1951-1955
Laxdale Hall (1951)
The Campaign in Italy (1951 HMSO)
Our Men in Korea (1952 HMSO)
The Mortimer Touch (1952 French) - Play
The House of Gair (1953)
A year of Space (1953 Macmillan) - Autobiography
The Faithful Ally (1954 10/6)
The Ultimate Viking (1955 Macmillan 21/-)

1956-1960
The Dark of Summer (1956)
A Sociable Plover (1957 Hart-Davis) - ss. 60 signed by Author & Stone Reynolds Stone
Position at Noon (1958 Cape 15/-)
Karina with Love (1958 Macmillan)
Breakspear in Gascony (1958 Macmillan) - Play
The Merry Muse (1959)
Edinburgh (1960 Newnes 25/-)

1961-1965
Roll of Honour (1961 Rupert Hart-Davis 16/-)
Husband of Delilah (1962 Macmillan)
A Man Over Forty (1963 Macmillan)
Gullers' Sweden (1964 Almqvist, Stockholm)
The Prince in the Heather (1965 H & S 25/-)
Orkney and Shetland (1965 Robert Hale 30/-)

1966-1970
The Conquest of England (1966 H & S)
Notes for a Scottish Pantheon (1967 Oliver & Boyd)
The Survival of Scotland (1968 Heinemann)
A Terrible Freedom (1966 Macmillan)
The Stories of Eric Linklater (1968 Macmillan) - ss
Scotland (1968 Thames & Hudson) - with Edwin Smith
The Secret Larder or How the Salmon Lives and Why it Dies (1969 Macmillan)
The Royal House of Scotland (1970 Macmillan)
The Music of the North (1970 Haddo House Choral Soc, Aberdeen)
Fanfare for a Tin Hat (1970 Macmillan) - Autobiography

After 1971
A Corpse on Clapham Common (1971 Macmillan)
The Voyage of the Challenger (1972 John Murray) (1972 Doubleday)
The Black Watch (1977 Barrie & Jenkins) - with Andro Linklater