Craig Brown

“Ma’am Darling: Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret” won the 2018 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the biography category. Craig has been a columnist for The Mail on Sunday, The Times (London), The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, and The Spectator, as well as others. He was educated at the University of Bristol and Eton before becoming a freelance journalist in London, contributing to Harper’s & Queen (collaborating with Lesley Cunliffe on articles, some of which resulted in books), Tatler, The Times Literary Supplement, the Evening Standard.

The best place to start is the Charlie Mortdecai series, the earliest of Craig Brown's multi-book series: it opens with Don't Point that Thing at Me / Mortdecai's Endgame (1972) and runs to 6 books across 1972–2001, ending with The Mortdecai ABC: A Bonfiglioli Reader (2001).

Craig Brown has 30 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1972 and 2024. 6 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the Charlie Mortdecai series with 6 books — and 24 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Craig Brown's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Charlie Mortdecai (1972–2001, 6 books).

This guide splits Craig Brown's 30 books into 1 named series and 24 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Charlie Mortdecai (6 books, 1972–2001).