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James William Broom-Lynne
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Born(1916-10-31)October 31, 1916
London, England
DiedDecember 1, 1995(1995-12-01) (aged 79)
Suffolk, England
Resting placeSt. Mary's Church, East Bergholt, Suffolk
NationalityBritish
Education
  • St. Martin's School of Art
Known for
  • Playwright
  • Author
  • Illustrator
Websitehttps://www.broom-lynne.com/Home.htm

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.[1]

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).[2][3]

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).[4] His post-war career spanned both freelance and permanent roles.[2]

  • 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).[5] On the occasion of its independence from the UK in 1981, he was commissioned to design the interior pages of the passport of Belize [6]

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.[7] 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[8] and The New York Post[9] 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.[2]

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[10] Dorothy Stroud The Sunday Times Article in newspaper, p. 6
1953 Liszt, Peter Katin Decca Record cover[11]
1955 Companions in Cross-stitch[12] 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[5] - Front cover, 4th February 1959
1960 366 Days - A zodiacal calendar Benham & Company, Colchester Private circulation (verse by Colin Peason)
1976 First day cover[13] 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[13] The Post Office (GPO) To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Gainsborough
1981 Interior design for the passport of Belize[6] 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.[14] Performed Off-Broadway at Bohemian National Hall, October 9, 1965.[15][16][17] A Norwegian TV movie entitled En hyggelig fyr was made in 1966[18][19]
1963 Ketch Stage Play
1963 Charlie and Duke[20] Radio play BBC
1965 Return Visit[21] Radio play BBC
1965 Triple Bill: The Duke and Duckett, Top People Have Rows Too, To the Home Office with Love[22] Radio play BBC
1967 Trilogy: The Applicant, The Golden Marathon, The High Place[23] Radio play BBC
1961 The Jokers[24] Teleplay ITV (Television Playhouse)
1963 The Living Image[25][26] Teleplay ITV (Armchair Theatre). Reviewed in The Daily Telegraph (19 August 1963).[27]
1967 Wanted: Single Gentleman[28][29][30] Teleplay The Listener (26 October 1967).[31]

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).[32]
1968 The Marchioness Macdonald & Co. Doubleday, 1969. Reviewed in The New York Times (11 May 1969).[33] and The Times Literary Supplement (6 June 1968).[34]
1969 Drag Hunt Michael Joseph Reviewed in The Daily Telegraph (30 October 1969).[35]
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).[36]
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).[37]
1978 Jet Race Putnam
1978 Crash Pan Macmillan
1980 Rogue Diamond Atheneum

References

  1. ↑ Peppin, Brigid; Micklethwait, Lucy (1983). Dictionary of British Book Illustrators. John Murray (publishing house). ISBN 0719539854.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "James Broom-Lynne". www.broom-lynne.com. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  3. ↑ "Suffolk Artists - BROOM-LYNNE, James". suffolkartists.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  4. ↑ Moorhouse, Geoffrey (3 April 1967). "Getting inside the jacket". The Guardian. p. 5. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "PNCH-1959-0204-00000.tif | PUNCH Magazine Cartoon Archive". www.punch.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "James Broom-Lynne". www.broom-lynne.com. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  7. ↑ Broom-Lynne, J. W. (20 March 1960). "Dixon in Disgrace". The Observer. p. 10. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  8. ↑ Gellert, Roger (4 January 1963). "Foursomes". The New Statesman. 65: 650. ISSN 0028-6842. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  9. ↑ Watts jr., Richard (11 October 1965). "Two on the Aisle". The New York Post. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  10. ↑ Stroud, Dorothy (15 February 1953). "Soane in Suffolk". The Sunday Times. p. 6. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  11. ↑ "Liszt*, Peter Katin - Liszt Recital". Discogs. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  12. ↑ Ingham, Vivien (July 1955). "Companions in Cross-stitch". Britannia and Eve. 51: 34–35.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "James Broom-Lynne". www.broom-lynne.com. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  14. ↑ "Production of The Trigon | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  15. ↑ "3 Off Broadway Productions Schedule Openings for Fall". The New York Times. 1965-08-18. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  16. ↑ "The Trigon". www.iobdb.com. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  17. ↑ Loney, Glenn (March 1966). "Broadway and Off-Broadway Supplement". Educational Theatre Journal. 18 (1): 66–72. doi:10.2307/3205121. JSTOR 3205121.
  18. ↑ Olsen, Arne Thomas (1966-05-03), En hyggelig fyr, NRK Drama, retrieved 2021-10-23
  19. ↑ NRK (2019-08-21), En hyggelig fyr 03.05.1966, retrieved 2022-03-20
  20. ↑ "Broadcast - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  21. ↑ "Broadcast - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  22. ↑ "Broadcast - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  23. ↑ "Broadcast - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  24. ↑ Kemp-Welch, Joan (1962-09-28), The Jokers, ITV Television Playhouse, retrieved 2021-10-23
  25. ↑ Saville, Philip (1963-08-18), The Living Image, Armchair Theatre, retrieved 2021-10-23
  26. ↑ "Living Image (1963)". BFI. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  27. ↑ L., L. (19 August 1963). "Artists in Conflict". The Daily Telegraph. p. 15. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  28. ↑ "Broadcast - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  29. ↑ Gorrie, John (1967-10-18), Wanted: Single Gentleman, The Wednesday Play, retrieved 2021-10-23
  30. ↑ "Wanted, Single Gentleman (1967)". BFI. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  31. ↑ King, Francis (26 October 1967). "Infernal Visitor". The Listener (magazine). 78: 550. {{cite journal}}: Text "The Listener" ignored (help)
  32. ↑ Fytton, Francis (20 April 1967). "Mess-Bill". The Times Literary Supplement. p. 340. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  33. ↑ "The Marchioness; By James Broom Lynne. 167 pp. New York: Doubleday & Co. $4.95". The New York Times. 1969-05-11. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  34. ↑ Harsent, David A. (6 June 1968). "Other New Novels". The Times Literary Supplement. p. 603. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  35. ↑ Berridge, Elizabeth (30 October 1969). "Recent Fiction". The Daily Telegraph. p. 9. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  36. ↑ Callendar, Newgate (24 September 1972). "Criminals at Large". The New York Times. p. 41. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  37. ↑ Berridge, Elizabeth (4 November 1976). "Recent Fiction". The Daily Telegraph. p. 15. Retrieved 20 March 2022.

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