# Jan Morris bibliography

This is a list of the literary works by Welsh writer and historian Jan Morris (1926–2020).

## Non-fiction
### Travel

* Coast to Coast (published in the US as As I Saw the USA; 1956: winner of the 1957 Cafe Royal Prize)
* Sultan in Oman (1957; new edition by Eland in 2008)
* The Market of Seleukia (1957)
* South African Winter (1958)
* The Hashemite Kings (1959)
* Venice (1960: winner of the 1961 Heinemann Award)
* The Presence of Spain (1964)
* Spain (1964)
* Oxford (1965)
* The Great Port: A Passage through New York (1969)
* The Venetian Empire (1980)
* A Venetian Bestiary (1982)
* The Matter of Wales (1984)
* Spain (1988)
* Hong Kong (1988)
* Sydney (1992)
* Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (2001)
* A Writer's World: Travels 1950–2000 (2003)
* Contact! A Book of Encounters (2010)

### Essays

* The Bedside Guardian 11: A Selection from the Guardian 1961-1962 (foreword/editor, 1962)
* The Road to Huddersfield: A Journey to Five Continents (1963)
* The Outriders: A Liberal View of Britain (1963)
* Cities (1963)
* Places (1972)
* Travels (1976)
* Destinations (1980)
* Wales; The First Place (1982, reprinted 1998)
* Journeys (1984)
* Among the Cities (1985)
* Locations (1992)
* O Canada! (1992)
* Contact! A Book of Glimpses (2009)

### History

* The Pax Britannica Trilogy
** Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress (1973). Book 1. Covering the period 1837 to 1897
** Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire (1968). Book 2.
** Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (1978). Book 3. Covering the period 1897 to 1965
* The Spectacle of Empire: Style, Effect and the Pax Britannica (1982)
* Stones of Empire: Buildings of the Raj (1983) (by Jan Morris with photographs by Simon Winchester)
* Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony (2018)

### Biography

* Fisher's Face (1995)

### Memoirs

* Conundrum, UK Faber and Faber, US: Harcourt Brace (1974) (personal narrative of Jan Morris's gender transition)
* Wales, The First Place (1982)
* Pleasures of a Tangled Life (1989)
* "Herstory" (1999)
* Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (2001)
* A Writer's House in Wales (2002)
* In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary (2018)
* Thinking Again (2020)

### Other

* Coronation Everest (1958)
* Ciao, Carpaccio! (2014)
* Allegorizings (2021) posthumously published

## Fiction
### Novels

* Last Letters from Hav (1985; shortlisted for the 1985 Booker Prize for Fiction)
* Hav of the Myrmidons. Published together with Last Letters from Hav, as Hav (2006; shortlisted for the 2007 Arthur C Clarke Award)
* Our First Leader: A Welsh Fable (2000) - a satirical alternate history set during the second world war.

### Short stories

* The Upstairs Donkey, and Other Stolen Stories (1961)

## As editor

* The Oxford Book of Oxford (editor)
* Ruskin, John, The Stones of Venice. Ed. Jan Morris. Mount Kisco, New York: Moyer Bell Limited, 1989.

## Miscellaneous

* The World Bank. A Prospect (1963)
* Manhattan '45 (hardcover 1987, paperback 1998)
* Over Europe (Weldon Owen, 1991) – Jan Morris provided the text for this post-Cold War photographic project
* Fifty Years of Europe: An Album (1997) – published in 2006 as Europe – An Intimate Journey
* The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country
* Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest (2001)
* Our First Leader
* Thrilling Cities written by Ian Fleming. Jan Morris provided the introduction for the 2009 edition published by Ian Fleming Publications.