As stated in
Who was Sinclair Beiles?, when I met Sinclair he told me that his first publication was a novel called
The White-hearted Nigger, which I have never been able to trace.
However, I have just received the following communication from Mike Hardaker:
Just a little Sinclair Beiles note that may be of
interest. Volume 4/2 of Nimbus (a British “little magazine” of the 1950s)
includes a piece called “The Commercial Traveller” by Sinclair Beiles, which is
billed as "Being the first chapter of a novel entitled The Life and Times
of a White-hearted Nigger”. Then, The Painter and Sculptor for 1958 has an
advert for The Memoirs of a White-hearted Nigger being published by
"Halcyon Press Limited, 24 Charlotte Street, London W1, (Mayfair 7153)”.
I have no idea whether the book was ever actually
published, and these are just stompies picked up from Google Books snippets,
but it does give some context to Beiles’s claim regarding his first book. As
for his claim that it was published by The English Literary Review, that might
be a misremembering of
Nimbus’s secondary title of
New English Review. As far
as I can tell,
Nimbus was also published by (or via) Halcyon Press, and
certainly from the same Charlotte Street address.
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