The Small Back Room (novel)

The Small Back Room

First edition
Author	Nigel Balchin
Language	English
Genre	Thriller
Publisher	Collins
Publication date	1943
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

The Small Back Room is a 1943 British thriller novel by Nigel Balchin, a pioneer of the use of computers, who later became Deputy Science Adviser (Army). It makes fun of 'the lesser back-room boy'.

In 1947 it was adapted by the team of Powell and Pressburger as a film of the same title starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron.^[1] Perhaps confusingly, this used the term Boffin to refer to back-room 'boys' rather than to those more like Nigel himself.