Published Posthumously

EM Forster wrote this novel of same sex love in the early part of the 20th Century but it wasn’t published until 1971.

Although it was the first novel Jane Austen completed this favourite wasn’t published until a few months after her tragically early death.

John Kennedy Toole wrote his 1981 Pulitzer winner picaresque novel in 1963 but it was turned down by publishers. It was published 11 years after his suicide.

This was Raymond Chandler’s 8th Marlowe novel. It was finished by writer, Robert B. Parker, 30 years after Chandler’s death.

Considered unacceptable for publication Philip K Dick’s novel was written at the beginning of his career, but not published until 12 years after his death.

When Dickens died in the summer of 1870, he had yet to reveal who had done the deed, leaving generations of readers to their own conclusions.

This Henry James book ends abruptly but this vicious attack on laissez faire capitalism was always going to end unhappily.

Soon after Stieg Larsson's death, the manuscripts of 3 completed, but unpublished, novels – written as a series – were discovered. This novel is the first in that series.

The novel F Scott Fitzgerald had been working on at the time of his death in 1940 was published the following year.

Virginia Woolf’s last novel was published after her suicide in 1941. The setting is an annual village play just before the outbreak of World War II.

Although he worked on it for nearly 10 years, Mark Twain never finished this work about a character called Satan.

Joseph Heller’s final novel was about an aging writer trying to mirror his earlier glories. It was published a year after his death.

Leo Tolstoy’s final work was a short story laced with criticism of the soon-to-fall Russian nobility. It was published 8 years after his death.

This novel was the 12th Bond novel, and the first to be published after Ian Fleming’s death in 1964.

Ernest Hemingway’s colourful account of his time spent in Paris in the 1920s wasn’t published until 3 years after his death.

This story was the last by the genius that was Dr Seuss. It was published 4 years after his death and tells how love is the greatest gift of all.

Jules Verne’s final work focuses on murder, intrigue and piracy in the South Atlantic in the 19th Century. It was published within months of his death in 1905.

The final work of William Golding was in the 3rd draft stage and was based in 1st century Greece. It was published 2 years after his death.

This work was published a year after the death of Michael Crichton. It was set in the 17th century Caribbean.