 In 1950 he published an anthology of short stories about childhood titled "First View", dedicated to the memory of Denton Welch, a writer he greatly admired.Closely allied to this anthology was his novel "In the Making" (1952), which drew upon his memories of Wells House, but was relocated from the Malverns to the Quantocks.Subtitled 'The Story of a Childhood', it traces the life of a boy called Randal Thane between the ages of six and fourteen, concentrating particularly upon his passionate obsession with an older boy called Felton.