Graham Greene's picks, neglected books.

The Neglected Books blog discusses Graham Greene's 1940s picks of neglected literary works, which include Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger adventure The Poison Belt; Roy Horniman's Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (aka the Alec Guinness film Kind Hearts and Coronets); Conan Doyle brother-in-law E. W. Hornung's Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman; William Babington Maxwell's The Case of Bevan Yorke (Maxwell was the son of Mary Elizabeth Braddon); Arthur Morrison's The Hole in the Wall (Morrison is best known for Martin Hewitt: Investigator and A Child of the Jago); and Anthony Hope's The King's Mirror (Hope is best known for The Prisoner of Zenda).

What's going on at Faber Finds.

Over at Faber Finds, the POD program that puts back into print neglected works, is Brian Aldiss's The Dark Light Years (1964). One of the most popular books at Faber Finds is Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907) by Roy Horniman, the basis for the hysterical Alec Guinness film Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). You can suggest works for Faber Finds here.