Bibliography
Verse
Novels
Autobiography
- A Sort of Life (1971)
- Ways of Escape (1980)
- Getting to Know the General: the story of an involvement (1984)
- A World of My Own: A Dream Diary (1992)
Travel books
Plays
- The Living Room (1953)
- The Potting Shed (1957)
- The Complaisant Lover (1959)
- Carving a Statue (1964)
- The Return of A.J.Raffles (1975)
- The Great Jowett (1981)
- Yes and No (1983)
- For Whom the Bell Chimes (1983)
Screenplays
Short stories (selected)
- Twenty-One Stories (1954) (originally "Nineteen Stories" [1947], the collection usually presents the stories in reverse chronological order)
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- "The End of the Party" (1929)
- "The Second Death" (1929)
- "Proof Positive" (1930)
- "I Spy" (1930)
- "A Day Saved" (1935)
- "Jubilee" (1936)
- "Brother" (1936)
- "A Chance For Mr Lever" (1936)
- "The Basement Room" (1936) (adapted by the author as The Fallen Idol, a film directed by Carol Reed)
- "The Innocent" (1937)
- "A Drive in the Country" (1937)
- "Across The Bridge" (1938)
- "A Little Place Off The Edgeware Road" (1939)
- "The Case for the Defence" (1939)
- "Alas, Poor Maling" (1940)
- "Men At Work" (1940)
- "Greek Meets Greek" (1941)
- "The Hint of an Explanation" (1948)
- "The Blue Film" (1954)
- "Special Duties" (1954)
- "The Destructors" (1954)
- A Sense of Reality (1963)
- "Under the Garden"
- "A Visit to Morin"
- "Dream of a Strange Land"
- "A Discovery in the Woods"
- "Church Militant" (1956)
- "Dear Dr Falkenheim" (1963)
- "The Blessing" (1966)
- May We Borrow Your Husband? (1967)
- "May We Borrow Your Husband?"
- "Beauty"
- "Chagrin in Three Parts"
- "The Over-night Bag"
- "Mortmain"
- "Cheap in August"
- "A Shocking Accident"
- "The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen"
- "Awful When You Think of It"
- "Doctor Crombie"
- "The Root of All Evil"
- "Two Gentle People"
- The Last Word and Other Stories (1990)
- "The Last Word"
- "The News in English"
- "The Moment of Truth"
- "The Man Who Stole the Eiffel Tower"
- "The Lieutenant Died Last"
- "A Branch of the Service"
- "An Old Man's Memory"
- "The Lottery Ticket"
- "The New House"
- "I Have a Huge Package"
- "Work Not in Progress"
- "Murder for the Wrong Reason"
- "An Appointment With the General"
Children's books
- The Little Fire Engine (n.d., illus. Dorothy Craigie; 1973, illus. Edward Ardizzone)
- The Little Horse Bus (1966, illus. Dorothy Craigie)
- The Little Steamroller (1963, illus. Dorothy Craigie)
- The Little Train (1957, illus. Dorothy Craigie; 1973, illus. Edward Ardizzone)
Other
- British Dramatists (1942)
- The Lost Childhood: and Other Essays (1952)
- Collected Essays (1969)
- The Old School: Essays by Divers Hands (ed. Greene, 1974)
- An impossible woman: The memories of Dottoressa Moor of Capri (ed. Greene, 1975)
- Introduction to My Silent War, by Kim Philby, 1968, British Intelligence double agent, mole for Soviets
- J'Accuse - The Dark Side of Nice (1982)
- Lord Rochester's monkey: Being the life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1974)
- The Pleasure-Dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935–40 (ed. John Russell Taylor, 1980)
- Yours, etc.: Letters to the Press (1989)
- Why the Epigraph? (1989)
- Reflections (1991)
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