as a writer of fiction his career really started with "selected stories", which was a little stapled paperback issued in 1944. this was quickly followed by "worlds without end", a hardback published in 1945, and then his first novel "the white rock" in the same year. the latter was also published in us and the netherlands. a second novel "the more we are together" soon followed and then a third "the widening mirror" in 1949.