The Small Back Room (novel)
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| Author | Nigel Balchin |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Collins |
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1943 |
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The Small Back Room is a 1943 British thriller novel by Nigel Balchin, a pioneer of the use of computers, who later became Deputy Science Adviser (Army). It makes fun of 'the lesser back-room boy'.
In 1947 it was adapted by the team of Powell and Pressburger as a film of the same title starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron.[1] Perhaps confusingly, this used the term Boffin to refer to back-room 'boys' rather than to those more like Nigel himself.
References
- ↑ Goble p.22
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- James, Clive. At the Pillars of Hercules. Pan Macmillan, 2013.
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