English writer Ivy Compton-Burnett finds her characteristic voice in her second novel, Pastors and Masters

Virgiinia Woolf publishes her novel Mrs Dalloway, in which the action is limited to a single day

T.E. Lawrence publishes privately his autobiographical Seven Pillars of Wisdom, describing his part in the Arab uprising

Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and the others make their first appearance in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh

Hugh MacDiarmid writes his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle in a revived version of the Lallans dialect of the Scottish borders

Henry Williamson wins a wide readership with Tarka the Otter, a realistic story of the life and death of an otter in Devon

Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen publishes her first novel, The Hotel

Virginia Woolf uses a Hebridean holiday as the setting for her narrative in To The Lighthouse

Caribbean-born author Jean Rhys publishes her first novel, Postures, based on her affair with the writer Ford Madox Ford

Siegfried Sassoon publishes Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the first volume of a semi-autobiographical trilogy

Set in a World War I trench, the play Journey's End reflects the wartime experiences of its British author, R.C. Sherriff

D.H. Lawrence's new novel, in which Lady Chatterley is in love with her husband's gamekeeper, is privately printed in Florence

Evelyn Waugh succeeds with a comic first novel, Decline and Fall

Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness is the first to deal openly with a lesbian subject

Richard Hughes publishes his first novel, A High Wiind in Jamaica

Blind Fireworks is Ulster writer Louis MacNeice's first collection of poems

English author J.B. Priestley has an immediate success with his first novel, The Good Companions

English poet Robert Graves puts behind him an England he dislikes in his autobiography, Goodbye to All That

English author W.H. Auden's first collection of poetry is published with the simple title Poems

Swallows and Amazons is the first of Arthur Ransome's adventure stories for children

Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence star in the West End in Private Lives, Coward's comedy of marital complications

Agatha Christie's Miss Marple makes her first appearance, in Murder at the Vicarage

Virginia Woolf publishes the most fluid of her novels, The Waves, in which she tells the story through six interior monologues

US poet Archibald MacLeish publishes a narrative epic, Conquistador, about the conquest of Mexico

British author C.S. Lewis publishes a moral parable, The Screwtape Letters, about the problems confronting a trainee devil