As per UK copyright law, these works entered the public domain on 1 January 2025, 70 full calendar years after Brett Young's's death on 28 March 1954.
[2] The Iron Age[3] was the first of Young's Mercian novels, focusing on a major industrial steelworks in the Stour Valley and the complex relationship between the firm's owners and their dynamic head engineer.
[5] The Red Knight is about Robert Bryden, a young art student in Chelsea who befriends a communist revolutionary who then succeeds in launching a revolution in his Mediterranean homeland.
[7] Cold Harbour takes place in Britain's Black Country in a supposedly haunted mansion on the site of an ancient Roman villa, whose owner Humphrey Furnival curtly dismisses any suggestion that it is cursed.
The story is told from the point of view of a young couple, forced to take refuge there for the night after the car has a puncture.
An officer of the King's African Rifles is hired by a wealthy industrialist and his wife to take them on safari in German East Africa.
[10] One of the author's Mercian novels, it is set in the Worcestershire village of Monk's Norton, as seen through the eyes of a Doctor from North Bromwich.
If follows the tribulations of the Grafton family, established in the Transvaal Republic after taking part in the Great Trek more than thirty years earlier.
Pretending he is dead, he assumes a new identity and begins walking through the Malvern Hills towards the Welsh border, finding a contentment in the countryside he had not in the city.
[15] Two sisters living a life of genteel poverty in North Bromwich discover that they have inherited a villa near Capri from an uncle.
In 1946 Flora Robson and Basil Sydney appeared in a stage adaptation by John Perry at the Piccadilly Theatre in London.
In 1947 it was made into a film of the same title directed by Leslie Arliss and starring Dulcie Gray, Margaret Johnston and Kieron Moore.
Around the turn of the century, the son of a doctor is invited by a friend to stay at Wistanslow the palladian country house belonging to his father Viscount Crowle.