Peter de Polnay

De Polnay, Peter

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Peter de Polnay (Hungarian: Polnay Péter) was a Hungarian-born English novelist and non-fiction writer who wrote over 80 books. Although de Polnay began his first novel on a bet, writing soon became his profession and main source of income. He wrote at a feverish pace, completing forty novels in just forty-five years. After the war, he settled into a fairly predictable pattern of finishing one book in time for the summer holidays and another just ahead of the Christmas season. De Polnay wrote under at least two pseudonyms. Between 1961 and 1966, W. H. Allen & Co. published three novels using the pseudonym [Rodney Garland](https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL14002035A/), which had been used by the Hungarian emigre writer Adam Martin de Hegedus for two novels with homosexual subject matter: The Heart in Exile (1953) and The Troubled Midnight (1956). After de Hegedus's death in October 1955, de Polnay wrote World Without Dreams (1961), Hell and High Water (1963), and Sorcerer's Broth (1966). W. H. Allen & Co. also published six novels that de Polnay wrote using the pseudonym Jessamy Morrison: The No-Road (1963); The Wind Has Two Edges (1964); The Girl from Paris (1965); Rusty (1966); The Office Party (1967); and The Widow (1972). Most of the Morrison novels dealt with lesbian and homosexual themes and de Polnay may have used the pseudonym to avoid problems with the Catholic Church.

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Death and to-morrow
Representative edition published 2006
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Of venison and victims
Representative edition published 1985
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The lost stronghold
Representative edition published 1984
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A Stone Throw
Representative edition published 1981
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It's cold next door
Representative edition published 1978
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My road
Representative edition published 1978
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The other shore of time
Representative edition published 1978
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Garbaldi: the legend and the man
Representative edition published 1976
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None shall know
Representative edition published 1976
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The stuffed dog
Representative edition published 1976
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La Vie en marge
Representative edition published 1975
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Blood and water
Representative edition published 1975
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The crow and the cat
Representative edition published 1975
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Spring snow and Algy
Representative edition published 1975
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The Scrapheap
Representative edition published 1974
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The moon and the marabou stork
Representative edition published 1973
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Water on the steps
Representative edition published 1972
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The fat of the land
Representative edition published 1971
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A life of ease
Representative edition published 1971
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A T-shaped world
Representative edition published 1971
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Napoleon's police
Representative edition published 1970
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Somebody must
Representative edition published 1970
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Enfant terrible; the life and world of Maurice Utrillo
Representative edition published 1969
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The plaster bed
Representative edition published 1969
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