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The Small Back Room (novel)

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1943 novel by Nigel Balchin

The Small Back Room
First edition
AuthorNigel Balchin
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherCollins
Publication date1943
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

The Small Back Room is a 1943 British thriller novel by Nigel Balchin, a pioneer of the use of computers, who later became Deputy Science Adviser (Army). It makes fun of 'the lesser back-room boy'.

In 1947 it was adapted by the team of Powell and Pressburger as a film of the same title starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron. Perhaps confusingly, this used the term Boffin to refer to back-room 'boys' rather than to those more like Nigel himself.

References

  1. Goble p.22

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • James, Clive. At the Pillars of Hercules. Pan Macmillan, 2013.


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