Michael Fane, the hero of Compton Mackenzie's controversial novel, Sinister Street, reads Manon Lescaut just before plunging into his own hopeless pursuit of a ' fallen woman '.

Kingussie is mentioned in Compton Mackenzie's book The Monarch of the Glen, on which the BBC TV series is based.

A humorous probable allusion to Leschetizky occurs in the " Stella in Oxford " Chapter ( Book Three, Chapter 10 ) of Compton Mackenzie's 1913-1914 novel Sinister Street, which mentions a notable piano teacher in Vienna " with a perfectly impossible name beginning with L ".

A lover of animals, in particular felines, in the early stages of his career Marks had a sideline photographing cats, and provided the photographs for Compton Mackenzie's book Cats ’ s Company ( 1960 ).

Monarch of the Glen is loosely based on Sir Compton Mackenzie's Highland Novels, which are set in the same location but in the 1930s and 1940s.

The television adaptation of Compton Mackenzie's novel Monarch of the Glen, centered around a modern day Clan MacDonald, has numerous references to the Battle of Culloden, at which they supposedly fought, including relics of the battle and clan disputes remaining fresh to this day.

Brooks also appeared in Compton Mackenzie's Extraordinary Women ( 1928 ), a novel about a group of lesbians on Capri during World War I, as the composer Olympia Leigh.

Publication, originally scheduled for autumn 1928, was moved up when he discovered that another novel with a lesbian theme, Compton Mackenzie's Extraordinary Women, was to be published in September.

Foster further asserts 1928 was a " peak year " for lesbian-themed literature ; in addition to The Well of Loneliness, three other novels with lesbian themes were published in England: Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel, Woolf's Orlando, and Compton MacKenzie's satirical novel Extraordinary Women.

The genre was not all about clashing civilizations ; Water on the Brain ( 1933 ) by former intelligence officer Compton Mackenzie was the first successful spy novel satire.

) His other novel, published under the nom de plume of Frances Snow Compton, was Esther, whose eponymous heroine was believed to be modeled after his wife.

Her first Nightrunner novel, Luck in the Shadows, was a Locus Magazine Editor's Pick for Best First Novel and a finalist for the Compton Crook Award.

In 1983, the Compton Crook / Stephen Tall Memorial Award was established by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society in his name for best first science fiction novel in a given year.

The Compton Crook Award is presented to the best first English language novel of the year in the field of Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, Inc, at their annual Baltimore-area science fiction convention, Balticon, held on Memorial Day weekend in the Baltimore, Maryland area.

BSFS has presented “ The Compton Crook Award ” each Balticon SM ( since 1983 ) for “... the best first novel in the genre published during the previous year ...”.

His first novel, Emergence ( ISBN 0-553-25519-3 ), won the Compton Crook Award in 1985.

Whisky Galore is a novel written by Compton Mackenzie, published in 1947.

Esther is a novel by Henry Brooks Adams first published in 1884 under the pen name " Frances Snow Compton ".

* Ravagers ( 1979 film ), a 1979 film directed by Richard Compton and based on the novel by Robert Edmond Alter

BSFS presents the Compton Crook Award for best first novel of the year in the Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror genre, during Balticon.

* James Knapp, author of the 2011 Compton Crook award winning novel State of Decay will be the Compton Crook Guest.

The BSFS has presented the Compton Crook Award each Balticon SM ( since 1983 ) for "... the best first novel in the genre published during the previous year ...".

Three other novels with lesbian themes were published in England in 1928: Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel, Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Compton MacKenzie's satirical novel Extraordinary Women.

Sylvia Scarlett is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, based on The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett ‎, a novel by Compton MacKenzie.

Stoddard won the 1999 Compton Crook Award for his novel The High House.

It is based on the novel The Unsleeping Eye by David G. Compton, also known as The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe.

It was first screened at the Old Compton Street cinema club in Soho, London in 1977, in an uncut form and without certification from BBFC secretary James Ferman ; the premises were raided by the Metropolitan Police after a few days.

* Old Compton Street was the birthplace of Europe's rock club circuit ( 2 I's club ) and boasted the first adult cinema in England ( The Compton Cinema Club ).

Dougie Millings, who was the famous tailor for The Beatles, had his first shop at 63 Old Compton Street which opened in 1962.

Old Compton Street is now the core of Soho's gay village.

Night-time traffic surveys carried by Westminster Council between 10 pm and 4 am indicate that Old Compton Street, Dean Street, and Frith Street experienced the highest levels of traffic within the Soho area.

The busiest location was Old Compton Street between the junctions with Dean and Frith Street, which experienced ' medium ' levels of traffic for four of the six hours of the survey, including between 2 am and 4 am.

An interesting local feature can be found in the middle of Charing Cross Road at its junction with Old Compton Street.

Beneath the grille in the traffic island in the middle of the road, the old road signs for the now-vanished Little Compton Street can be seen.

This road once joined Old Compton Street with New Compton Street.

* Old Compton Street

Around this time, Crisp began visiting the cafés of Soho – his favourite being The Black Cat in Old Compton Street – meeting other young homosexual men and rent-boys, and experimenting with make-up and women's clothes.

Other multiply listed streets include Camden Passage, Compton Terrace, Colebrooke Row, Cross Street, Duncan Terrace, Essex Road, Gibson Square and Milner Square.

Taylor was badly injured in 1984 when he was run over by a car while crossing Old Compton Street in London.

In 1800, Accum and his family changed residence in London from 17 Haymarket to 11 Old Compton Street.

Accum held his first lecture on chemistry and mineralogy in a small room in his house on Old Compton Street.

Accum's premises on Old Compton Street were searched on the order of a magistrate for the City of London, and torn pages were indeed discovered there.