Fictionary 2

I used to work as a puzzle editor and compiler, so I thought it might be fun to make up a book puzzle. This is a wordplay challenge in which each circle contains a cryptic-style clue to the name of a book. So for the example over on the right here, the answer is ‘Trainspotting’, TRA – in -SPOTTING, yes?

See if you can work out the titles of nine novels below. And to narrow things down, the theme is ‘English Language Novels Pre-WWII’. There arranged in approximate order of difficulty. I think t...