James Broom-Lynne

James William Broom-Lynne (31 October 1916 – 1 December 1995 ) was an English artist-designer, novelist (sometimes under the pseudonym of James Quartermain) and playwright who was notable for his illustrations for book jackets.
== Life and Career ==
Islington-born Broom-Lynne was the son of James William Broom, a master bookbinder and Esther (née Slaughter). He married in London to Catherine Joan Redmore in 1948 with whom he had three daughters (Gale, Victoria and Kate) and one son (Luke).
Broom-Lynne learnt his craft at St. Martin's School of Art. He was prolific as a book illustrator, with over 200 dustcovers to his name, particularly for the publishing houses of Heinemann (publisher), Macdonald and Michael Joseph (publisher). He supplied cover artwork for, amongst others, Anthony Powell, Henry Williamson and H. E. Bates, with whom he collaborated on numerous works including the The Darling Buds of May (novel), The Cruise of the Breadwinner and Love for Lydia.
During World War II Broom-Lynne served with the Civil Defence Service in Westminster (1940–1945). His post-war career spanned both freelance and permanent roles.
* William Larkins Studio, London, England, art director, 1960–1961
* Service Advertising, London, storyboard director, 1962–1966
* Macdonald & Co. (publishers), London, art editor, 1966–1969
* Art school lecturer in London, 1970–1972
* Art school lecturer, Ipswich School of Art, 1972–1981
In 1959 he provided the illustrations for a front cover of Punch (magazine). On the occasion of its independence from the UK in 1981, he was commissioned to design the interior pages of the passport of Belize 
It was in 1960 that he took his first foray into commercial writing when he entered a competition run by The Observer to write an hypothetical broadcast script. His entry titled "Dixon in Disgrace" won first prize. This was followed by a number of plays including Trigon in 1962, which received mixed reviews although the theatre critics in both The New Statesman and The New York Post were positive. By 1967 Broom-Lynne had penned his last play and shifted focus onto writing novels.
Upon his death in 1995 he was cremated and his ashes laid to rest in the graveyard of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, in the village of East Bergholt, Suffolk, UK, where he and his wife had lived for over 40 years.
== Bibliography ==
=== Book Jackets ===
Year	Author 	Title 	Publisher
1945	George Speaight 	Juvenile Drama 	MacDonald
1946	H. E. Bates 	The Cruise of the Breadwinner 	Michael Joseph
1946	Peter Bowman 	Beach Red 	Michael Joseph
1946	Rosalind Wade 	As the Narcissus 	MacDonald
1947	George Beardmore 	A Tale of Two Thieves 	MacDonald
1947	Neil Bell 	Forgive us our Trespasses 	Eyre & Spottiswoode
1947	Dane Chandos 	Abbie 	Michael Joseph
1947	Eleanor Clarke 	The Bitter Box 	Michael Joseph
1947	Mary Fitt 	A Fine and Private Place 	MacDonald
1947	Mary Fitt 	The Banquet Ceases 	MacDonald
1947	Garnett Radcliffe 	The Lady from Venus 	MacDonald
1947	Vita Sackville-West 	The Garden 	Michael Joseph
1947	Donald Stauffer 	The Saint and the Hunchback 	Michael Joseph
1947	Mary Brooke Stoker 	Dark Heritage 	MacDonald
1948	George Beardmore 	Far Cry 	MacDonald
1948	George Beardmore 	Madame Merlin 	MacDonald
1948	Mary Fitt 	Death and the Bright Day 	MacDonald
1949	Marcel Ayme 	The Fable and the Flesh 	Bodley Head
1949	Charles Dickens 	The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 	MacDonald
1950	R. D. Blackmore 	Lorna Doone 	MacDonald
1950	Derek Barton 	Nothing Gross 	Michael Joseph
1950	H. E. Bates 	The Scarlet Sword 	Michael Joseph
1950	Christianna Brand 	Cat and Mouse 	Michael Joseph
1950	Mary Fitt 	Pity for Pamela 	MacDonald
1950	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair 	MacDonald
1951	Vicki Baum 	Danger from Deer 	Michael Joseph
1951	Mary Fitt 	An Ill Wind 	MacDonald
1951	Robert Glover 	Murderer's Maze 	Paul Elek
1951	Eric Hodgins 	Blandings' Way 	Michael Joseph
1951	Edith Pargeter 	Holiday with Violence 	Heinemann
1951	Edith Pargeter 	Fallen into the Pit 	Heinemann
1952	H. E. Bates 	The Country of White Clover 	Michael Joseph
1952	H. E. Bates 	Love for Lydia 	Michael Joseph
1952	John Cartwight 	False Crest 	Werner Laurie
1952	Mary Fitt 	Death and the Shortest Day 	MacDonald
1952	Paul Gallico 	Trial by Terror 	Michael Joseph
1952	Gwenda Hollander 	The Subborn Field 	MacDonald
1952	Dorothy Mackinder 	The Miracle of Lemaire 	MacDonald
1952	Anthony Powell 	A Buyer's Market 	Heinemann
1952	Anthony Powell 	Afternoon Men 	Heinemann
1952	Reginald Thompson 	Cry Korea 	MacDonald
1952	Henry Williamson 	Donkey Boy 	MacDonald
1952	Various 	BANDWAGON: The Journal of Leisure - Vol. 13	Norman Kark
1953	Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon 	No Nightingales 	Michael Joseph
1953	Mary Fitt 	The Nighwatchman's Friend 	MacDonald
1953	Paul Gallico 	The Foolish Immortals 	Michael Joseph
1953	James Hanley 	Don Quixote Drowned 	MacDonald
1953	Compton Mackenzie 	Extraordinary Women - Theme & Variations 	MacDonald
1953	Anthony Powell 	What's Become of Waring 	Heinemann
1953	Guy Ramsey 	Stop Press Murder 	Andrew Dakers
1953	John Trench 	Docken Dead 	MacDonald
1953	Henry Williamson 	Tales of Moorland and Estuary 	MacDonald
1953	Henry Williamson 	Young Phillip Maddison 	MacDonald
1954	Mary Fitt 	Love from Elizabeth 	Macdonald
1954	Mary Fitt 	The Man who Shot Birds 	MacDonald
1954	Edith Pargeter 	The Soldier at the Door 	Heinemann
1954	Anthony Powell 	From a View to a Death 	Heinemann
1954	John Trench 	Dishonoured Bones 	MacDonald
1954	Henry Williamson 	How Dear is Life 	MacDonald
1955	Anthony Powell 	The Acceptance World 	Heinemann
1955	Anthony Powell 	Agents and Patients 	Heinemann
1955	Helen Robertson 	The Winged Witnesses 	MacDonald
1955	W. E. Shewell-Cooper 	Pot Plants 	Museum Press
1955	Henry Williamson 	A Fox Under My Cloak 	MacDonald
1956	Robert Cross 	Death in Another World 	Putnam
1956	Mary Fitt 	Sweet Poison 	MacDonald
1956	Robin Jenkins 	Love is a Fervent Fire 	MacDonald
1956	Willard Price 	Adventures in Paradise 	Heinemann
1956	Helen Robertson 	Venice of the Black Sea 	MacDonald
1956	Marion Taylor 	American Geisha 	Geoffrey Bles
1956	Kenneth Tynan 	Bull Fever 	Quality Book Club
1957	Richard Aldington 	Frauds 	Heinemann
1957	Christianna Brand 	Three Cornered Halo 	Michael Joseph
1957	Matthew Head 	Murder at the Flea Club 	Heinemann
1957	Claude Houghton 	More Lives than One 	Hutchinson
1957	Anthony Powell 	At Lady Molly's 	Heinemann
1957	Randolph Stow 	Act One: Poems 	MacDonald
1957	E. S. Turner 	Boys will be Boys 	Michael Joseph
1957	Henry Williamson 	The Golden Virgin 	MacDonald
1958	H. E. Bates 	The Darling Buds of May 	Michael Joseph
1958	Henry Williamson 	Love and the Loveless 	MacDonald
1959	H. E. Bates 	A Breath of French Air 	Michael Joseph
1959	Jonathan Kozol 	The Fume of Poppies 	Michael Joseph
1959	Richard Llewellyn 	Chez Pavan 	Michael Joseph
1959	C. E. Vulliamy 	Cakes for your Birthday 	Michael Joseph
1960	H. E. Bates 	When the Green Woods Laugh 	Michael Joseph
1960	Robin Jenkins 	Some Kind of Grace 	MacDonald
1960	Anthony Powell 	Casanova's Chinese Restaurant 	Heinemann
1960	Helen Robertson 	The Chinese Goose 	MacDonald
1960	Paul Stanton 	Village of Stars 	Michael Joseph
1960	C. E. Vulliamy 	Justice for Judy 	Michael Joseph
1960	Henry Williamson 	A Test to Destruction 	MacDonald
1961	Marie-Therese Baird 	The Scorpions 	Heinemann
1961	Dane Chandos 	Abbie and Arthur 	Michael Joseph
1961	Robin Jenkins 	Dust on the Paw 	MacDonald
1961	Mary Kelly 	The Spoilt Kill 	Michael Joseph
1961	Robert Glynn Kelly 	A Lament for Barney Stone 	Macmillan
1961	Anthony Powell 	A Question of Upbringing 	Heinemann
1961	C. E. Vulliamy 	Tea at the Abbey 	Michael Joseph
1961	Henry Williamson 	The Innocent Moon 	MacDonald
1961	Hugh Ross Williamson 	A Wicked Pack of Cards 	Michael Joseph
1962	Kate Christie 	The Waiting Game 	Macmillan
1962	Mary Kelly 	Due to a Death 	Michael Joseph
1962	Walter Macken 	God Made Sunday 	Macmillan
1962	Jennie Melville 	Come Home and be Killed 	Michael Joseph
1962	Anthony Powell 	A Dance to the Music of Time 	Heinemann
1962	Anthony Powell 	The Kindly Ones 	Heinemann
1963	Michael Barrett 	Task of Destruction 	Michael Joseph
1963	Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon 	Don't, Mr. Disraeli 	Michael Joseph
1963	Louise King 	The Day we were Mostly Butterflies 	Michael Joseph
1963	Margaret Laurence 	The Tomorrow-tamer and other stories 	Macmillan
1963	Jennie Melville 	Burning is a Substitute for Loving 	Michael Joseph
1963	Mickey Philips 	Meat 	Michael Joseph
1963	Emmanuel Shinwell 	The Labour Story 	MacDonald
1963	C. E. Vulliamy 	Floral Tribute 	Michael Joseph
1963	Henry Williamson 	The Power of the Dead 	MacDonald
1964	Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon 	Six Curtains for Stroganova 	Michael Joseph
1964	Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon 	No Bed for Bacon 	Michael Joseph
1964	James Broom-Lynne 	The Trigon 	Jonathan Cape
1964	Eva Defago 	The Deep Freeze Girls 	Michael Joseph
1964	Geoffrey Household 	Rogue Male 	Michael Joseph
1964	Mary Kelly 	March to the Gallows 	Michael Joseph
1964	Jennie Melville 	Murderer's Houses 	Michael Joseph
1964	Gladys Mitchell 	Death of a Delft Blue 	Michael Joseph
1964	Mickey Philips 	Lay Them Straight 	Michael Joseph
1964	Anthony Powell 	The Valley of Bones 	Heinemann
1965	Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon 	Titania has a Mother 	Michael Joseph
1965	Henry Cecil 	Fathers in Law 	Michael Joseph
1965	Dick Francis 	Odds Against 	Michael Joseph
1965	Ric Hardman 	The Virgin War 	Michael Joseph
1965	Geoffrey Household 	Olura 	Michael Joseph
1965	Louise King 	The Velocipede handicap 	Michael Joseph
1965	Jennie Melville 	There Lies your Love 	Michael Joseph
1965	Gladys Mitchell 	Pageant of Murder 	Michael Joseph
1965	Randolph Stow 	The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea 	MacDonald
1965	Miles Tripp 	A Quartet of Three 	Macmillan
1965	Allan Turpin 	The Box - A Conversation Piece 	Michael Joseph
1965	Henry Williamson 	The Phoenix Generation 	MacDonald
1966	Brian Glanville 	A Roman Marriage 	Michael Joseph
1966	Mary Kelly 	Dead Corse 	Michael Joseph
1966	Mary Kelly 	Dead Man's Riddle 	Michael Joseph
1966	Myrna Lockwood 	A Mouse is Miracle Enough 	Michael Joseph
1966	Gladys Mitchell 	The Croaking Raven 	Michael Joseph
1966	Anthony Powell 	The Soldier's Art 	Heinemann
1966	Allan Turpin 	Beatrice and Bertha : A Novel-Memoir 	Michael Joseph
1966	Allan Turpin 	Ladies 	Michael Joseph
1966	Henry Williamson 	The Dark Lantern 	MacDonald
1966	Henry Williamson 	A Solitary War 	MacDonald
1966	Donald Windham 	Two People 	Michael Joseph
1967	H. E. Bates 	The Distant Horns of Summer 	Michael Joseph
1967	Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon 	A Bullet in the Ballet 	Michael Joseph
1967	Vicky Brandrick 	To Let Furnished 	Michael Joseph
1967	Adam Diment 	The Dolly Dolly Spy 	Michael Joseph
1967	Stanley Ellin 	House of Cards 	MacDonald
1967	Malcolm Elwin 	The Noels and Milbankes 	MacDonald
1967	Dick Francis 	Blood Sport 	Michael Joseph
1967	Giovanni Guareschi 	My Home Sweet Home 	MacDonald
1967	Gladys Mitchell 	Skeleton Island 	Michael Joseph
1967	Jean Nicol 	Hotel Regina 	Michael Joseph
1967	Jane White 	Quarry 	Michael Joseph
1967	Henry Williamson 	Lucifer before Sunrise 	MacDonald
1967	Herbert Fairley Wood 	Vimy! 	MacDonald
1968	Herbert Fairley Bair 	The Coming Together 	MacDonald
1968	H. E. Bates 	The White Admiral 	Dennis Dobson
1968	Adam Diment 	The Great Spy Race 	Michael Joseph
1968	Madge Garland (editor) 	The Indecisive Decade 	MacDonald
1968	Giovanni Guareschi 	School for Husbands 	MacDonald
1968	Elizabeth Jenkins 	Ten Fascinating Women 	MacDonald
1968	Sue Kaufman 	Diary of a Mad Housewife 	Michael Joseph
1968	Mary Kelly 	A Cold Coming 	Michael Joseph
1968	John Kobler 	Henry Luce: His Time, Life and Fortune 	MacDonald
1968	Anthony Powell 	The Military Philosophers 	Heinemann
1968	Jane White 	Proxy 	Michael Joseph
1969	Giovanni Guareschi 	Duncan and Clotilda 	MacDonald
1969	Barry Weil 	Dossier IX 	Hamish Hamilton
1970	Henry Williamson 	Collected Nature Stories 	MacDonald
1973	Anthony Powell 	Temporary Kings 	Heinemann
1975	James Broom-Lynne 	The Colonel's War 	W. H. Allen
1975	Anthony Powell 	Hearing Secret Harmonies 	Heinemann
1975	Anthony Powell 	Books Do Furnish a Room 	Heinemann
1979	Anthony Powell 	Venusberg 	Heinemann
 	Anthony Powell 	A Dance to the Music of Time (complete set)	Heinemann
=== Illustrations ===
Year 	Title 	Author 	Publisher 	Notes
1947 	The Garden 	Vita Sackville-West	Michael Joseph 	
1949 	Pickwick Papers 	Charles Dickens 	Macdonald 	
1950 	Lorna Doone 	R. D. Blackmore 	Macdonald 	Illustrated Classics series
1952 	The Country of White Clover 	H. E. Bates 	Michael Joseph 	
1953 	Tales of Moorland and Estuary 	Henry Williamson 	Macdonald 	
1953 	Soane in Suffolk 	Dorothy Stroud 	The Sunday Times 	Article in newspaper, p. 6
1953 	Liszt, Peter Katin 	 	Decca 	Record cover
1955 	Companions in Cross-stitch 	Vivien Ingham 	Britannia and Eve magazine 	Article in the July 1955 issue, pp. 34-35
1956 	American Geisha 	Marion Taylor 	Geoffrey Bles 	
1959 	Punch Magazine 	 	 	
 	Front cover, 4th February 1959 	 	 	
1960 	366 Days - A zodiacal calendar 	 	Benham & Company, Colchester	Private circulation (verse by Colin Peason)
1976 	First day cover 	 	The Post Office (GPO) 	To commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of John Constable, born in East Bergholt where James Broom-Lynne lived for 40 years
1977 	First day cover 	 	The Post Office (GPO) 	To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Gainsborough
1981 	Interior design for the passport of Belize	 	 	Commission for design of the passport of Belize (formerly British Honduras) on its independence from the UK
unknown	Shredded wheat information booklet 	Paul Jennings 	Nabisco 	
=== Plays ===
Year	Title 	Type 	Notes
1963	The Trigon 	Stage Play	New Arts Theatre Club, London, starring Prunella Scales and Timothy West. Performed Off-Broadway at Bohemian National Hall, October 9, 1965. A Norwegian TV movie entitled En hyggelig fyr was made in 1966
1963	Ketch 	Stage Play	
1963	Charlie and Duke 	Radio play	BBC
1965	Return Visit 	Radio play	BBC
1965	Triple Bill: The Duke and Duckett, Top People Have Rows Too, To the Home Office with Love	Radio play	BBC
1967	Trilogy: The Applicant, The Golden Marathon, The High Place 	Radio play	BBC
1961	The Jokers 	Teleplay 	ITV (Television Playhouse)
1963	The Living Image 	Teleplay 	ITV (Armchair Theatre). Reviewed in The Daily Telegraph (19 August 1963).
1967	Wanted: Single Gentleman 	Teleplay 	The Listener (26 October 1967).
=== Novels ===
Year	Title 	Publisher 	Notes
1967	Tobey's Wednesday 	Macdonald & Co.	Published in the US as The Wednesday Visitors, Doubleday, 1968. Reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement (20 April 1967).
1968	The Marchioness 	Macdonald & Co.	Doubleday, 1969. Reviewed in The New York Times (11 May 1969). and The Times Literary Supplement (6 June 1968).
1969	Drag Hunt 	Michael Joseph 	Reviewed in The Daily Telegraph (30 October 1969).
1970	The Diamond Hook 	Doubleday 	Under the pseudonym James Quartermain
1972	The Man Who Walked on Diamonds	Doubleday 	Under the pseudonym James Quartermain
1972	Rock of Diamonds 	Doubleday 	Under the pseudonym James Quartermain. Reviewed in The New York Times (24 September 1972).
1973	The Commuters 	Doubleday 	
1975	The Colonel's War 	W. H. Allen 	
1975	The Diamond Hostage 	Constable 	Under the pseudonym James Quartermain
1976	Verdict 	W. H. Allen 	Reviewed in The Daily Telegraph (30 October 1969).
1978	Jet Race 	Putnam 	
1978	Crash 	Pan Macmillan 	
1980	Rogue Diamond 	Atheneum 	
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